Healthcare reform tough without legislator reform

Health and healthcare happen to be up high in my priority list, yet, as you can see, I haven't been posting much about the reform, which no doubt is a critical issue in this country.

Why?

Because it's a clusterfuck.

It's gotten so complicated that it's not only overwhelming to try to understand but also nearly impossible to explain--and that's a bad sign, if you ask me.

Why is it such a clusterfuck?

Because of special interest groups (insurers and healthcare providers) lobbying the crap out of spineless legislators who are more interested in what they can get from these groups than in doing their jobs.

Surely there's a simpler way to approach universal healthcare--there has to be. But that would lead to reduced profits for most of this heath-caring (not!) people.

One of the most contended aspects of the reform is the $1 trillion price tag. Well, I think that's probably twice of what it would cost if these fuckers weren't out to get obscenely rich vs. seeking to make a decent living, even be wealthy.

Furthermore, how many millions (ahem, billions) of dollars to we send to other countries disguised as "aid" to advance geopolitical agendas, among other things...? Sometimes the so-called aid enables some of these foreign governments to provide basic services, such as healthcare, to their people. Charity starts at home.

In addition, it is acceptable to spend $12 billion a month of taxpayers' money to fund a pseudo-war in Iraq (launched by the Bush administration based on a series of lies) that has done absolutely nothing to improve the quality of life in this country, but it's not acceptable to allocate that kind of effort and resources on the healthcare of Americans.

I think the best system would be one without insurance companies.

You think I'm oversimplifying things? Fine, but I think it is that simple.

Clusterfucks are notoriously present when a bunch of irrationally motivated people are set on getting their way above all else, unwilling to cooperate among themselves to reach a compromise that serves everyone's needs to a certain degree vs. catering either exclusively or disproportionately to one or more groups at the expense of others.

Case in point: Last week, South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint told fellow legislators that "if we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."

Does it sound like this distinguished (not!) member of Congress is interested in anything other than his and his party's political agenda? Nope.

While the Obama administration labors to find a way to make decent healthcare accessible to all--rich, poor and in-between--Americans, this asshole is stuck on how to "stop Obama."

"Think about that," President Obama said Monday during a visit to Children's National Medical Center in Washington in response to DeMint's remark. "This isn't about me. This isn't about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America's families, breaking America's businesses, and breaking America's economy. And we can't afford the politics of delay and defeat when it comes to health care. Not this time. Not now."

Here's the thing: DeMint can dedicate his precious energy and resources to this irrational cause because either he's healthy enough to do so or, when he's not, he's got a killer health plan--paid by you and me--to cover his ass.

I'd like to see what he would do if illness Waterloo-ed his life and he didn't have the so-called "Cadillac plan" he's entitled to as a congressman to get catch him when he falls.

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