Jim Cornette on health care reform

It's a fact that the cost of health care, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security amounts to the largest percentage of our annual Federal budget, that this system is unsustainable and that something must be done before it's too late. Social Security, at this rate, will be broke before I get to collect it, and if the amount of taxes I have paid over the past 25 years leaves me with little or nothing, imagine what it will be like for the average worker. Obama recognized this, and for all the Republican talk about "bankrupting our children and grandchildren", he's the ONLY one to recognize a need to do something for the countrys' long-term good instead of worrying about what the voters care about immediately. This man wants to be remembered in 100 years for having made a difference in the quality of our lives, not whether he gets reelected in four.

So what happens when he puts forth a plan to revamp the single most expensive and important obstacle facing Americans today? The Republican party, bought and paid for by special interest lobbyists and the big pharmaceutical companies, looking out for their future election prospects, their old, rich, white constituency, and their insistence that the United States of America remains the only country in the developed world with a health care system that discrimates against it's own people at the expense of it's citizenry and the benefit of it's richest two percent, does what it does best--engages an obstructionist, fear-mongering campaign against reform. It mobilizes the misguided, the uninformed, and the extremists to gin up controversies where none should exist, and engages in a misinformation campaign to obfuscate and outright misrepresent the intent of said reform under the guise of patriotism and preserving the "American Way". And all the while, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the sick get sicker, and all Americans lose their chance at a better way for another generation. For all of you who benefit from the Medicare program, get on your computers and google some information on what the Republicans said about Medicare before Democrat Lyndon Johnson was able to pass it. Look familiar? It should, you're hearing it today.

... I'm Jim Cornette, and that's my opinion.