Health Care
On the eve of the shortest day of the year it seems to me that this might well be the darkest day of our era.
A year ago we Americans were at what we hoped was a nexus of change for the better. With a new president, an outsider, a visionary about to take the reigns we hoped that we would step forward and take all Americans with us.
Health care was a promise, a major plank of the Obama platform, and it would be a test to see exactly what out new president was made of.
I put forward our new president is made of nothing; he’s a failure and a disgrace.
Obviously the Nobel Committee doesn’t share my sentiment, but then again you have to seriously question a peace organization that awards an individual dedicated to the proposition that peace is sometimes only achieved through war (last I checked, war was achieved through war — and all the great wars to end all wars only spawned new wars).
Why do I say Barack Obama is a failure?
Simple, a man who cannot stand up for values he purported to have during a campaign, a man that cannot lead his own party, a man that cannot charter the imagination and dreams of Americans, a man who calls himself a leader that has failed by every measure to promote the general welfare.
Hardly a success; and certainly not deserving of an “A” for effort.
I voted for Obama for president not because I liked him or trusted him or believed in him, but rather because I didn’t like, didn’t trust, and didn’t believe in his opponent (and I still don’t).
What a sad country we live in when we must choose our leader by eliminating the worst and only having one choice remain.
I digress.
The lack of a public option for health care reform is nothing but pandering to the health care industry and will in fact achieve nothing except kill the chances of ever having true health care reform.
I simply cannot understand why Canadians can have a health care system that works and provides for each and every Canadian while in the United States we have millions with no insurance, and millions with insurance that doesn’t provide any preventive care.
If the US adopts the health care reform that’s currently working it’s way through the legislative process without adding back a public option I fear that it will be many decades before we have another opportunity to start down the road of insuring that every American has access to reasonable, affordable health care.
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