Being the Change I Wish to See

This metaphor describes exactly what is going on with the GOP and health care reform:

GOP dudes want pizza but without any of the ingredients, including sauce and cheese. I wonder if they even want crust?

It’s time to forget the Republicans and for the Democrats to go it alone.

Those of you who don’t want health care reform are saying you want the insurance companies to make 35 cents out of every dollar in profits. You’re paying for it, and you are at risk of losing your insurance because the costs keep going up. It will keep going up as fewer and fewer people are insured, and our delivery system is expensive.

If you have employer health insurance, look back at your pay stubs from at least a few years ago compared to today and see how much more you’re paying now compared to then.

What’s going on with people who don’t want a public option or even a co-op? What’s wrong with making it possible for the uninsured to be able to buy insurance and afford it? What’s wrong with increasing competition to make your insurer earn your business?

What would you do if your insurance tells you the emergency surgery you just had isn’t covered or is only covered 65/35 because you were out of town when it happened? You would have to pay 35% of an average $20,000 hospital bill. Can you fork that over right now?

Think back on recent and even not so recent lay-offs at your company. How many people who were laid off had a serious illness prior to being laid off? Get rid of those who get sick and get rid of their risk from your employer’s pool.

Are the insurance company executives in your pants (or your pockets) at your demand? They’re heavy into many GOP pockets. Prostitution, figurative or literal, is the only sane thing I can think of for wanting to pay those companies a 35% profit. The rest of the excuses are myths or outright lies too many people have started to believe.

Wake up and smell the coffee! Our health care system is unsustainable, and the GOP wants a “reformed system” that is even more unsustainable and more beneficial to the insurance industry.

It’s time for the Dems to dump the GOP obstructionists.

Sources:
TRMS
Countdown

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When Keith Olbermann quotes scripture, he must have something very profound to say. He doesn’t quote scripture, so when he did last night on Countdown, I was riveted to the entire show.

Keith’s Biblical quote:

In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets. – Jesus; Matthew 7:12 (NRSV)

His passionate special comment was in response to California’s Proposition 8 passing and taking away the right of gay and lesbian couples to legally marry, but goes beyond just Prop 8 to the very root of Christianity, love.

Here is the clip of the show with Keith’s special comment. I can’t write about it as well as he says it:

I ask everyone to read one passage not quoted very often because it puts the responsibility of right and wrong, and good and evil squarely on each individual.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right? – Jesus; Luke 12:56-57 (NRSV)

I believe all the religious wrangling about the Bible saying homosexuality is a sin misses Christ Jesus’ point, which is to love God, love one another, and love your neighbor as yourself. He also implores people to pay attention and make up their own minds, take personal responsibility and don’t fall back on blind faith. People are so stuck on quoting scripture that they lose site of the spirit and meaning of the Bible as a whole.

I don’t believe Jesus would be against gay marriage in today’s world. I do believe He would be livid at the behavior of many people who claim Him as their Savior.

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