In Need of Public Option If President Obama wants to have affordable health care coverage for all, the nation needs a public option. Americans need to get their heads out of their back sides and realize that health care needs to be a universal right for EVERYONE. We need to stop focusing on our own individuality and look at what is good for the nation. Now, I understand that this is a stern 180 from my view of keeping the government out of our lives, but this needs to happen. Anything outside a public option is not Health Care reform, it's simply Health Care renegotiation, especially when you are going to force Americans into health care.
A universal health care, although viewed as socialistic, would not turn us into a socialist society. It would show that we as a nation get the fact that health care and health coverage is a universal human right and is not limited to the rich getting the best coverage while the poor are stuck going to overcrowded clinics seeing doctors who take glimpses while the rich have sit down conversations with their doctors. And that is the point. Don't I have the same right to the same quality health care as President Obama or Bill Gates? Or are we so egotistical that we believe our social class allows us the right to receive better or worse health care?
Bay Area's Got It Right As reported on CNN on Monday, the city of San Fransisco has introduced universal health care for those who don't have private insurance. And while still in its infancy where long term problems are unknown, one good thing about this program is that it only cost the city $750 thousand dollars.
Meanwhile, across the bay, the city of Oakland legalized and now taxes marijuana to the conservative estimate that it will bring in over $500 thousand dollars.
I understand the math would be a little off on all of it, different cities, different economies, but the general idea is there and has continuously been over looked by the Federal government. Legalize marijuana and use the tax revenues for funding a public health care option. Governor Schwartzenagger has already conservatively estimated an income of $1.5 billion in tax revenue.
Tax funded abortion? There are 2 bills that I know of, including one of the big three proposed by the House Tri-Committee that would pay for what they are terming "family services to certain low-income women". While this is a hot button issue, Political Liability is hoping to get an answer to the exact definition in early September as we hope to attend a town hall meeting with Ways and Means committee member, Representative Yarmuth.
Crazy Gun Owners With all the news about how President Obama has received more death threats than any other president, and the media's correlation to it having to do with him being black, why do gun owners have to flaunt the fact that their state has carry and conceal weapon laws? Seriously, do you actually think a rally, in which the President or members of Congress as well as small children are attending, is an appropriate place for your gun?
Gun owners what to use the argument that they have the right to carry guns under the Second Amendment for protection. Than use it for protection, and not as a focus point by saying "I have a gun and the right to carry it". The government is not going to open fire at a rally, there fore there is no real need to openly or otherwise carry a weapon to a town hall rally. All your doing is allowing the main stream media the right to say that all the protesters are crazy nut jobs.
Executive Foot-in-Mouth Syndrome President Obama needs to actually think before he says anything as it pertains to health care reform. When talking about it at his first town hall meeting, he compared a government run public option to the post office. Saying how Fed-Ex and UPS are doing well and it's the USPS that needs help. That's not going to win over people on the fence since the postal service is seeing a dramatic dip in services, has gone all but bankrupt and has been pushing for almost a year the request to go from 6 to 5 day work weeks. Now we've come to expect these gaffes from Vice President Joe "not in my neighborhood" Biden, Secretary of State Hillary "I'm the Secretary of State, not my husband" Clinton, and Speaker of the House Nancy "Speaking out is unAmerican" Pelosi, but Mr. President, you ran on how well you can win over a crowd, we expect a little more thought from you.
Fear Mongering works both ways While Republicans are using the old, tired tactic that universal health care will lead to socialism in the United States, the Democrats have pushed fear just as hard. President Obama continuously says that no reform is even more dangerous. To that, I have to disagree. While, yes health care reform is needed, it is going to effect ALL AMERICANS and therefore should not be pushed through Congress like "Cash for Clunkers" or the Stimulus Plan. It needs to be thought out, there are several issues that need to be discussed, such as: how are we going to pay for it? How are we going to make it affordable for all Americans? What are "pregnancy related services"? If we expand Medicare, are we going to actually make it better or just keep trapping people in it? etc.
Moving Some Things Around I had previously promised a report on Native Americans in America, and then this whole Health Care thing blew up causing my focus to shift. Well, we are still working on that piece, but I'd like to thank CNN for bringing the subject up on "State of the Union" on Sunday. Their focus was on Shannon County in South Dakota. A county that is 90% Native American and has both a poverty rate and unemployment rate of over 80%, with the latter being at 90%.
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