Does The Health Care Process Frighten You?

I believe a poll would show the majority of the American people are having a more difficult time sleeping today compared to a year ago when the health care debate began. We are threatened by the process our elected officials blatantly parade in front of us on television, radio and in newspapers.

We are afraid of arm twisting, back room deals, radical partisanship and a bill that contains more than 100 times the number of words in our Constitution. Just the mere mention of the word Socialism makes most of us want to run for cover.

Personally, I do not believe there is a single Senator or Congressman that has read every word of the health care bills they have voted for and will vote for. I mean do you know how long it would take to read 2000 pages of legalese, much less read it and really understand what it says?

Just a few years ago the Senate voted unanimously, 99-0, and passed the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation that requires CEO's of publicly held corporations to attest that they know their published financial statements are accurate prior to signing them, under penalty of law. Shouldn't those same Senators be required under penalty of law to attest they they know and understand the content of a bill prior to voting on it?

Why should the President and Congress be allowed to devote one third of the President's term in office to change the best health care system in the world when during these 15 months thousands of brave American soldiers have lost their lives, and tens of millions of Americans are unemployed or under employed?

Have you shopped at the Gap, Bed Bath & Beyond, Costco, or Wal-Mart and looked for anything with a label made in the USA? I have and everything is made somewhere else, mostly in China. Speaking of China, do you believe that they are really our friends? Not only do we owe the almost one trillion dollars, yes owe them, but did you know they are stockpiling oil, iron, and every other commodity required to build an army, air force and navy that will soon be much larger than ours?

Should we sleep better because we know our national security is being threatened, our economic security is being threatened, our American heroes are shedding their blood everyday, millions of us have lost our homes, there are more homeless people in America than ever before.....just because everyday we know our politicians are meeting in back rooms, the oval office, and who knows where, to borrow more money to provide health insurance to people that can not be turned away from a hospital now?

If you are one of us that is not sleeping as well as you used to, blame the President because the buck always stops with the person in charge. Blame him, vote out everyone that supports him, and make damn certain that 1/20/13 is his last day in office. Then maybe we can catch up on our sleep and begin to feel a little less threatened.