(Oh well, welcome to America)

For as long as I can remember, our country has never been so utterly distracted by the topic of health care. Maybe that’s why it’s such a colossal piece of petrified shit to swallow! Being (or wanna-being) a part of the media, I can say that ‘we’ do our best to put things into ‘perspective’ but when it comes to the topic of health care, Obamacare, the left-and-right-wing-care, deficit-care, immigrant-care, Medicare, care-for-46-million-americans-who-don’t-have-care, public-verse-private-care, the media gives Americans a lot to sift through daily. And it seems that I’ve begun not to CARE!No, I care, but wish we could skip all these intoxicating steps of political bullying and discussion. It is taking Americans through the ringer! But, at the end of the day, I do CARE, because whatever decisions are made by this administration will be directly linked to my bank account. So I have to care.
But I want the cost down and the number of people covered up, and everyone is saying that we need a 'public option' to do that. As Bill Maher puts it, 'public option' sounds like a toilet at the train station. Very funny. But he was also right (on his latest rant on health care) when Maher said that the Dems have not made the definition of public option clear. What the hell are we supposed to believe when the GOP is calling it Nazi Medicine (that term is pretty clear)? It sounds to me like the box you would check last on any sort of form or survey; Public Option? Who wants what all those other people have??

But the word buzzing from progressive's lips is the single-payer option is one where the governement pays (the crowd cheers!!) for services..basically medicare for all (damn, that's gotta be expensive..) and one's coverage isn't based on pre-existing conditions (cough, cough) and wouldn't crumple in the trash along with the pink slip that your boss just handed you (knock on wood).

Alas, if it was that simple..

If Democrats and Republicans could agree on the quality of life, illegal or otherwise...
If free-loaders didn't exist...
If competition didn't work so well in creating inovation...
If there were enough good doctors to populate a whole country...
If Americans were healthier (instead of "happier")...
If insurance companies didn't need a public option to keep them honest...
If the US was $300 billion richer...

Maybe there would be a little sanity in the world (Oh well, welcome to America)