Citizens in the Center

There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us, it behooves any of us to speak well of all the rest of us.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

National Health Insurance Turmoil

From what the Villager has learned, the National Health Insurance legislation now being brewed up by the House and Senate is a thousand page document. Ludicrous. Every Tom, Dick and Harry across the nation has an opinion on it, hasn't read it, tells lies about it,
and the legislators writing it know not what a monster they are creating.

The Villager's answer to the reform in process is: that it is needed. Health care in America now is too costly, inefficient, uncoordinated and unregulated and operates with a high rate of failure in the sense that millions of people don't have access to it. Quality health care for all citizens of a nation cannot be provided fairly by private entrepreneurs in the business of making a profit.

The answer is a simple Bill of Health written and made into a basic law for Americans like the Bill of Rights. It should be no longer or no more complex than the Bill of Rights. It should be the law that every citizen of this country, regardless of age, gender, sex, or income is entitled to receive full medical care under the provisions and protection of the Bill of Health. How to pay for it? The same way we are paying for the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the occupation of American troops in foreign places throughout the world.