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When did it become ok to get rich off of the sick and dyeing? I'm all for making a descent and comfortable living but these insurance companies need to be reigned in.
Many of our leaders would have us believe that the markets will take care of themselves, that big companies will regulate themselves. Some believe that greed will check its self, well it doesn't appear to be doing so and I believe that it never will.
Now these companies have become so big that no single man can even begin to change their greedy self serving ways. Now the government is the only one big enough to take on these conglomerations of selfishness.
But isn't government a union of people pooling their resources to achieve; for the greater good, that which one person could not achieve on their own? Isn't the assurance of quality, affordable and fair health care for all Americans the highest of achievements next to a good education?
We can afford to spend trillions of dollars on war and to support the greedy bankers on wall street, why is it so difficult to get people to support life saving legislation? What has happened to our nation? Have all parents stopped teaching their children the importance of charity?
I have discovered that France, Germany, Switzerland and Japan all provide universal coverage, but their doctors and insurers are private. Individuals get their insurance through the workplace, sharing the premium with their employer, just like we do- and the government picks up the premium if they lose their job.
Also, EVERY developed country, except the United States, has decided that Health coverage should be a Non-Profit operation. These other countries hold down costs by making coverage mandatory and by using a unified set of rules and payment schedules for hospitals and Doctors. This system saves these countries money buy cutting down on health costs by eliminating the mess of records and charges used by insurance firms. This unified system makes it possible for France and Germany to use DIGITAL records and each person has a "smart" card that includes all of their health information.
Are we truly the fat, lazy and greedy people that the extremest Muslims call us with disdain, are we really as selfish as all of these facts make us appear? It would seem that all of these other civilized nations have clearly reached a level of civility that we just can't seem to reach. Could it be that through all of our competitive sports that we immerse ourselves in from the earliest years of childhood and then into our adult years carrying that same attitude of competition into the work place, striving for advancement, that we have held ourselves back from some evolutionary advancement that the rest of the developed nations have achieved? Have we allowed ourselves to become a dumbed down nation of warriors that only care about winning?
It is time for all of us to remember; or perhaps learn for the first time, the importance of moderation, charity and respect for our fellow human and stop thinking that we have to have everything, all the time no matter who gets hurt. For many of us, it's time for us to remember what our mothers taught us about playing nice and sharing, that it's not ok to lie, cheat and steal and it's not ok to knowingly stand by while an injustice occurs, an injustice that we can easily remedy.
