If you don’t think there is corruption in our government – lets look at how our system works.
First, politicians take campaign contributions. Then the contributors ask the politicians for legislation that will give their company an economic advantage over its competitors. Or the contributor gets the politician to take away the rules, so the contributor’s company can exploit the consumer for profit.
There are dozens of variations, but the theme is consistent. If you throw enough money at something, you usually get what you want. It's the “American way.”
You don’t have to look very far to find evidence of this practice. And it did not begin with the taxpayer bail out of Wall Street. Buying favors with campaign contributions is as old as politics itself.
However, now that the healthcare debate on the front lines, “politics as usual” has become a matter of life and death – literally.
According to Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) without health insurance, you are 40 % more likely to die than your insured counterpart.
For those who oppose the Public Option, more easily understood as “Medicare for all,” one has to consider why anyone would be against it?
In the ideological and moral sense, providing healthcare for human beings should not be negotiable. But in reality, Congress is now deciding just that; who gets healthcare and who does not. It’s the ultimate “death panel ” and worst form or rationing.
If their votes are being influenced by the campaign contributions of health insurance industry giants, and many believe they are, can we still simply call it politics as usual? Or has entered the realm of corruption, at the expense of what’s best for America?
If the voice of morality can be drowned out by the stampede for profit and single-minded focus of re-election at any cost, what kind of country will we leave our children?
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Comments
This is so stupid. Anyone who has worked with the government will tell you how long it takes to get anything done, why anyone would want slow government bureaucracy limiting their healthcare is beyond me.
more stupidity than corruption, one can be redeemed of corruption!
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