Unless you have been living under a rock for the past week or so you are surely aware of the passage of the vaunted healthcare bill. Equally prominent in this debate is the response from conservatives, fueled by such “amazing leaders” as Sarah Palin. Throngs of angry tea-partiers recently flocked to tiny Searchlight, Nevada, home of Senate Majority leader Harry Ried in an act of protest. My question for them is, what are they protesting against?
What these protestors don’t seem to realize is that this bill does not hurt them in the slightest. All it does, in effect, is take some of the power away from the insurance companies so they can’t drop you once you get sick or deny you coverage for a preexisting condition. What these protestors are speaking out against is a bill that is a shadow of its former self. America has the most inefficient healthcare system on the planet, and this bill won’t fix it, but it is a step in he right direction.
What we should be working towards is a system like Canada‘s, a government run plan. However, change that productive will be precluded by so much political red tape that it won’t get passed in the foreseeable future. But at least we got something….
