Healthcare

The question of healthcare for all drives me nuts. I know its complicated and I can't begin to try and parse the issues. However, I do understand this. The fear mongering that goes on in politics is very disturbing to me. Stuff like death panels, etc... its so ludicrous and idiotic.

Watching the healthcare summit , I'm reminded of the speech the president gives near the end of The American President. More specifically:

We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections.

And this is also how you obstruct any chance of healthcare reform.

One more thing - Boehner and McConnell (the minority leaderships) - keep inserting the talking point about the "2700 page bill." Let me get this straight, there's a bill that's about reforming health care, which involves corporations, nonprofits, insurance companies, hospitals, science, billions of dollars and pretty much every single American, and you think 2,700 pages is too many? I would be more worried if this bill was only 5 pages long.