Random Thoughts on the Healthcare debate

In response to someone saying we should listen to the issues, debate, and enact or not enact some of the presidents ideas.

This issue with listening, debating, enacting or not is that it involves time and thought, not knee jerk reactions and being able to draw immediate infallible conclusions, leaving no position with a fraction of an inch of variation regardless of how the winds are blowing. The blowhards (that is the media, not the conservatives), dont want us to stop, listen, think, process, digest, absorb and then respond to our leaders actions. It is more memorable, photographic, with better imagery to attract the fleeting eye, when you light a fire of hate, intolerant ideologically and what not because that is what the masses want to see, that is how you make news and gain viewers and advertisers. We are now like the Romans, feeding the christians to the lions, since this is what the masses want. The inmates have escaped and are now running the asylum on both sides of the spectrum because they think extremism is what the people want, because the extremist are screaming the loudest and making the biggest impact.

The problem is the moderates are driving 10 year old hondas and subaru's, trying to make ends meet, trying to raise our children to be tolerant of all cultural, all religions, all ideologies, all belief's. There is no PAC or lobby group that is focused on the middle. People that dont want our government to grow, people that want health care reform in an intelligent capitalistic way, where government is not picking up the tab, where Doctors are compensated for treating the individual not for bilking the insurance companies because they are worried about being sued for malpractice if they dont run one test, where consumers have free choice to choose a health insurance plans that fits their individual needs, not the needs of their employer, where insurance companies are allowed to compete and make money by offering policies that people need and then incentivized to provide care to those that cannot afford insurance.

The bottom line is we, the people, are already paying for those that dont have insurance already one way or another. By creating tax breaks or other incentives for the insurance companies to cover everyone, essentially achieves the same goal without the govt footing the entire bill.

And for the record, I dont think a typical elementary school kid understands or cares about the presidents philosophy or ideology or agenda. They think it is cool to know who the president is and they feel honored if they get to hear him (or her) speak. In spite of my feelings for Bush 43, I never stopped Jacob (8) from listening to him or talking about him, since he was excited he knew who the president was and he was learning to respect the office, which is what we all should be doing. If we teach our children that we disrespecting our leader is appropriate than that is not acceptable and we are doomed like some many empires before.

Just like I was told in 2000, we lost, now get over it. The conservatives need to take their own medicine. You dont like the president, then work to find someone that is more electable in 2012.