If you haven't read the Rolling Stone article "Sick and Wrong" by Matt Taibbi, you need to stop reading this and go read that.
It is a seven page gut wrencher.
I want to believe that it being a slow news period that every single smidge of news is exaggerated and blown into a weird distortion all for ratings.
I want to believe that Obama is playing the cool card. The no drama, unruffle-able, calm leader of the free world.
I want to believe that the democrats will break from history and unite with purpose and strength with one objective - to get this done. And to get it done properly.

But every single word in that article rang true to me. Every penny in the coffer of the representatives and senators from the entities fighting reform was a nail in the coffin of its demise. I believe we will not only get squat, I believe we will see the destruction of a brilliant opportunity squandered. Squandered and sullied.
No other president has been given this kind of an opportunity. The opportunity to completely change peoples' lives. To alleviate the family destroying, financially collapsing, stress inspiring thing that is our current healthcare system. The system that systematically purges the sickest of the sick in order to balloon their profit margin.
We cannot, WE CANNOT expect a for profit entity to care about anything other than PROFIT. It is ridiculous.
It is pathetic.
It makes me so angry that our vote for change, our vote for sweeping reform and a shift of our citizens consciousness away from the egocentric and to the external - to those that need a hand up - that as a community we all benefit when we raise others up - is being denied. There is nothing idealistic or unrealistic about it.
We came together and we said we insist on a change.
We are done with business as usual.
Change it.
We voted them in, they didn't deliver and they were purged.
This can and will happen to you if you do not REPRESENT the people that placed you in this position.
Believe it.

Single payer was the only real chance we had at fixing our broken system.
And it was taken off the table before the fight even began.




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