Health Care and Grudges

So the Republicans in the Senate have put out their version of the new health care law. The hyperbole is not fulfilled. But what did you expect? Political reality must be faced. The House version is probably the one that will be finally sent to Trump’s desk anyway. Let’s hope that we can get health care when it’s all over.

The problems they are trying to address stem from the nature of free market insurance. No self-serving businessman is going to volunteer to lose money. His board of directors and the stockholders would be in arms to get rid of him. So that’s why Obamacare is failing. What the Republicans have put up as a replacement isn’t a complete overhaul, but a patch on Obamacare.

Remember, Obamacare was originally copied from Mit Romney’s health care plan in Massachusetts. Romney was, is and will remain a Republican. The Republican objections to the original plan are based not on the source, nor the method, but on their fixation with states’ rights and the Marketplace god. The real reason they hate it, however, is that they didn’t have a say in it. It was rammed down their throats by the Democrats when they held the majority of both houses of congress. All the political drama of the past nine years stems from that grudge they’re still nursing. That is why we have to let our politicians know we don’t care about political grudges.

Oh, I am so sorry. You do care about political grudges? Well if you can’t get over it you don’t love this country. The political grudge-keeping is what is tearing the nation apart. We are never going to repair our political system so long as we carry the extra baggage of grudges against the opposition. They are opponents, not enemies. When you view political opponents as enemies, you give your real enemies a free hand in destroying you.

Conservative or Liberal, we all are patriotic Americans, we all care about the nation. Let us work together by thinking about our shared values and throw the grudges on the ash heap where they belong.

Rant over….

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