All this Tea Party and shouting about Healthcare Reform has no credibility to me.

Why?

Because supposedly it's about big government spending, spending money we don't have, adding to a deficit that our children's children will have to pay. But I didn't see one of these guys out during the bush years when we were thrown into horrendous debt with an unjustified war. Why has this become the issue du jour NOW? Why after 8 years of unprecedented spending, infringement on our civil liberties and flagrant disregard for law is this particular issue suddenly worth freakin' out about?

But to Healthcare.

This is what I want to know. Why do we have health insurance? Why are we hanging onto this industry that exists to take money from people, take a cut and then disperse the remainder to those that actually do the work?

Health insurance is a middle man.

It provides no service.

It obviously does not attempt to negotiate some stellar deal for its consumers.

It instead, takes money from people and then attempts to keep the people from which it takes money from the services they need.

It makes no sense.

It makes no sense that we cling to this system looking upon it as a life preserver in a sea awash with fear when in actuality it is an anchor to which we are clinging.

This non-service middleman not only takes our money, it determines who will get service and who will be denied.

It determines how long they will allow you to use this non-service middleman, which correlates directly with your health.

If you are healthy, you get it.

If you are not, you don't.

And this is the system to which we cleave?

And we wonder why people think we are ridiculous?

Why other countries who LIVE the healthcare systems they have adopted are stunned by our swallowing of the misinformation perpetuated by those with the most to lose should we actually decide to do the right thing and get a single payer system.

The insurance companies and those heavily invested in them.

I have experienced nationalized healthcare as a citizen and as a non-citizen. The service is exemplary, the efficiency is top notch, the cost more than reasonable.

But nothing, NOTHING, can begin to describe the sheer relief, the burden lifting exhale that comes from knowing that you will pay either nothing or an amount completely and totally affordable. The stress one experiences here following an injury or a bout of illness is difficult to fathom.

Every day, you await the bills.

The bill from the doctor, the hospital, the anesthesiologist, radiologist, the lab, etc.

Add this to the office visits, the medications, all the additional stuff depending on what it is that you are suffering from.

We put this burden on SICK/ILL people!

People who are no where near 100%, people suffering, hurting, missing work, unable to do daily activities, enduring any number of other things that life throws at them.

I listened in stunned silence as well people shouted at a wheelchair bound woman asking if this woman had more rights than them?

Wow.

Just wow.

I don't believe that we are like this. I believe that some people are like this. But I don't believe the majority of us are like this. If so, why do we step up so big time for those in crisis? Those in need?

No, I won't believe that people are like this now.

I think they are angry.

I get that.

I believe that they are angry that their party let them down.

That their party gave them no choices against Obama.

And that they were beaten.

And now bits and pieces of policy are twisted and morphed into scary images of government controlled everything with us wearing gray flannel accepting our lives of rationing and misery.

I listen to rush, hannity, savage, beck, etc.

And every single one of them is on the twist and shout bus.

Twist a story and shout it from your platform as much and as intensely as possible.

With each of these guys saying the same thing with their own particular spin, I can see how the average listener, with their anger and frustration at being marginalized and disregarded, begins to take this as gospel. I mean, if you hear one person say something, and then another but in a different way with a different perspective, and then another...you begin to believe it. You begin to believe that the country is on the verge of complete collapse. That your country has been hijacked. That the life that you have known will disappear. It is inevitable that people would begin to freak out.

I find it irresponsible. I am all for different perspectives being reflected in opinion. I don't want to just hear my point of view being regurgitated back at me. We are all different with different ideas. But there are certain things that we need to abide by. We need to abide by the truth. You cannot, for instance, say that Joe Wilson was right because Obama has a back room deal going on regarding amnesty for illegal immigrants which will allow the new citizens access to healthcare. That's the lamest justification I have heard. The guy screamed "You Lie" to the President of the United States.

No.

It's not the same as booing.

You can boo an idea.

But something so personalized, so pointed and so incorrect, does no deserve to be justified. You detract from your argument by justifying bad behavior. Especially since the guy apologized and then turned around and said that he wasn't sorry.

In my opinion, it is time to do away with health insurance.

We go to our doctor.

He/she sends the bill to the government.

Our taxes pay the bill.

Not charity.

Not complicated.

But deserved.

So very very deserved.