Heath Care is Ill

The health care system in our country is quite ill, terminal.
I recently had minor surgery, spent one day in the Hospital, the bill
was $33,000 dollars, a thousand dollars an hour, that was just the Hospital. The President says he and his administration are determined to change the health care system, although with every step he seems to be backing up. This effort is becoming a Health Insurance Company Bailout to go along with the Banking Bailout and the Auto Bailout. The problem in Washington D.C. is every time a Mr. Smith Goes To Washington to do good work, there are nine Mr. Joneses already there to stop him. Washington it seems is not a place where good work gets done but more so a place where good work gets stopped from being done. In our Democracy the majority of our citizens are opposed to the Trade Agreements like NAFTA, so we have NAFTA, we are against Corporate domination of our Government, we have Corporate domination of Government, we are against open borders and outsourcing our jobs, we are against the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and we are for Health Care Reform. They are batting 1000 we are batting 0. It is no surprise that our country is in bad shape and getting worse. The surprise is how many people won't see it and are willing to do nothing about it.
Change is not a word on a campaign sign or what you put in the cup of some homeless person on a street corner. Change is what we might become tomorrow and how we get there from today.

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