Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Health Reform Critics (Restless Natives)

Every day it seems there is a fresh chorus of yelling from opponents of health care reform. It seems that middle-age White Americans have a problem with change from a system that excludes millions of other Americans, while insurance companies are becoming as wealthy as the oil companies. Now before you call me a racist, I say, I’m like a referee – I call them like I see them; just look at every news broadcast, newspaper, or news magazine.

Critics lobbed a barrage of verbal jabs at the Congressmen holding town hall meetings across the U.S. Health care opponents say the overhaul that “could” cost billions of dollars is unwise at a time when the economy is in recession. Some have even handed Senators copies of the Constitution. Now that is funny when the Constitution says that ALL Americans are provided with security and the pursuit of happiness – there is no security if you don’t have medical insurance; there is no happiness when your child is sick and you don’t have medical insurance.

The town hall meetings have at times turned into shouting and pushing matches between supporters and critics. Many of the opponents have believed the “talking heads” hype that President Obama wants to turn the U.S. into a socialist country; believing that the new health play will allow illegal aliens and welfare recipients will get free medical insurance. When in reality both receive free health care already when they visit emergency rooms free of charge. I myself have the benefited of free health care as a military veteran.

Maybe there are some righteous complaints, but to the average Joe it looks like a bunch of middle-aged White Americans believing the scare tactics of the “talking heads”. They were talking the same stuff during the presidential campaign – I guess if you say something long enough…well anyway it looks like people are either running scared, greedy, or just plain bigots.

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