Out of Touch, Out of Sync

The health care debate continues to rage on, and we, the average Americans, must simply sit back and watch as the people in government make such an important decision for us. Let's face it, this isn't going to effect our representatives any great extent, they get their health care for free. A perk of being a representative of you and I. When their term in Washington is done they may have to foot the bill, but how many people in our government are not worth hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars?

President Obama prided himself on being in touch with Americans because his grandmother raised him on food stamps and welfare and he understood the average American and where they come from. That may have been true when he first started into politics, however he is a long way from food stamps and public housing now. Just last year he and his wife made over two million dollars. It is very easy to dawn those rose colored glasses and forget exactly how it was on the way up the mountain to rise above the clouds. It isn't just President Obama. All of the men and women who represent us are wealthy. This is a problem.

Fact Check: Health Care Reform Debate discusses many advertising campaigns and the money spent, along with the facts and fiction of the debate, to get the public support behind this idea. What I see is a grand attempt and lots of money spent to snowball the American public. It's like the people with the shiniest, most expensive toys are going to decide where the health care industry and the health and wellness of the American people are going to end up. I believe this should be decided by the American people, and the plan should come from the doctors, nurses, insurance companies, and other health care providers who actually work with the public and know the actual issues that are at hand. The politicians of this country are out of touch. They have lost a sense of reality while living in the political Disneyland that is Washington D.C. The American public has carried them on our backs for too long, and now they are going to repay us by breaking our backs and then refusing to fix them because only so many broken backs can be fixed in a year according to the socialized medicine rules.

As I have stated before there does need to be changes in health care. There do need to be regulations on health care, insurance pricing, and the sue happy people of this country. There are many issues that need to be addressed, however the people who need to address them are not the people who are so out of touch with you and I that they can only guess what they want or need. I do commend all of the representatives who voted the way they felt the people they represented wanted them to vote, especially those who crossed party lines. For all of those who simply voted yes because it meant a shiny new car or a favor in return, shame on you.

The day after the house approved the health care reform bill a woman that my husband knows received a letter from the hospital where she is a nurse stating her health insurance is going to increase from $91 a pay period (every two weeks) to $152 a pay period. The reason the letter gave was because of the passage of the bill in the house. Private insurance is going to be forced to increase so it is the same cost or more of the 'affordable' plan the government will extend to us. The second reason is those who have insurance are going to be responsible for paying for those who do not have insurance. The people the government decide have extra money are going to have to foot the bill for the insurance for those who don't.

There is a right way to do things, and a wrong way. This is not the right way. This is not the best for the American citizens and this will not create quality health care. What is the use in everybody having insurance when the quality of the health care is diminished?