07-24-2007, 01:48 PM
The health care system in the US will never be fixed no matter how much we want it!
The only way it can be fixed is if both the legislative and executive branch of our government decides to fix it. But they NEVER will do this.
These two branches have opted OUT of the health care system and voted themselves their own over funded, provided for life, never to be taken away, not subjected to managed care, and paid for by you and I in perpetuity medical care plan. Heath care and heath care issues are only seen by them as campaign spin to get elected. It is actually against their best interest to provide us with proper health care because if health care was no longer an issue, there goes their next sound bite.
Social Security has been a concern for longer than health care, yet our elected representatives have refused to solve that. Why? because unlike you and I, they are NOT part of the social security system. Like health care, they voted themselves an over funded pension for life, paid by our tax dollars, not subject to any US citizen’s oversight.
If you really want to see the truth of solving this, just ask your elected official if they would agree to terminate their congressional health care and retirement pension plans and go to social security and managed care with co-payments, deductibles, and COBRA. Watch how quickly they have you thrown into Gitmo as an enemy combatant suspect. There are no debates, filibusters, committee hearings, public input, protest votes, competing bills, all night conferences, walkouts, calls for moratoriums, or any other delaying tactic when it comes to voting themselves a heath care, pension, or expense increase. Now if only they would do for us what they do for themselves. Congress and the Executive branches did enact their own health care and retirement overhaul. They made it so that we the citizens of this country can ever take away what they gave themselves. It would take a unanimous vote of both houses along with the signature of the President to reduce or eliminate their health care system and retirement plans. Now talk about health care reform.
The only way it can be fixed is if both the legislative and executive branch of our government decides to fix it. But they NEVER will do this.
These two branches have opted OUT of the health care system and voted themselves their own over funded, provided for life, never to be taken away, not subjected to managed care, and paid for by you and I in perpetuity medical care plan. Heath care and heath care issues are only seen by them as campaign spin to get elected. It is actually against their best interest to provide us with proper health care because if health care was no longer an issue, there goes their next sound bite.
Social Security has been a concern for longer than health care, yet our elected representatives have refused to solve that. Why? because unlike you and I, they are NOT part of the social security system. Like health care, they voted themselves an over funded pension for life, paid by our tax dollars, not subject to any US citizen’s oversight.
If you really want to see the truth of solving this, just ask your elected official if they would agree to terminate their congressional health care and retirement pension plans and go to social security and managed care with co-payments, deductibles, and COBRA. Watch how quickly they have you thrown into Gitmo as an enemy combatant suspect. There are no debates, filibusters, committee hearings, public input, protest votes, competing bills, all night conferences, walkouts, calls for moratoriums, or any other delaying tactic when it comes to voting themselves a heath care, pension, or expense increase. Now if only they would do for us what they do for themselves. Congress and the Executive branches did enact their own health care and retirement overhaul. They made it so that we the citizens of this country can ever take away what they gave themselves. It would take a unanimous vote of both houses along with the signature of the President to reduce or eliminate their health care system and retirement plans. Now talk about health care reform.