Socialize it...

I've been putting off commenting on the health care bill. What can I say, I've been a bit busy.

Quite simply put, the whole debate is retarded. Let me explain...

Our health care system is broken. Everybody knows this. Everybody. Even the people who like our health care system the way it is know it's broken. That's why they like it.

Okay, maybe some people are too dumb/ignorant/blissfully unaware to realize that it's broken. These people are not important. And if they make a fuss they are to be ignored. C'mon people, you're better than this.

The way I see it, there is only one reason for a politician to be against universal health care (let's not refer to it as "socialized", ignorant people don't like that word), and that's because someone is paying them to be against it. Or because they're a douchebag. Which I guess would also include the first group.

It is absurd for a country with our influence and economic standing not to already have such a system in place. We're more than a little behind. We need to catch up with the rest of the civilized world. This isn't a "hey man, everybody's doing it" kind of thing. All our friends are not jumping off a bridge. We're the one dumbass who thinks jumping is a good idea.

This should not be such a big deal. This is something that should have been done awhile ago. As for everyone still arguing about this: please, just fucking stop. It's already been done, now we need to make it work. You loudly proclaiming your opinion to your lower intestine is not helping.


Rereading this the next morning, I'm finding this to be a bit angrier than I intended. I'm just frustrated with all the time, energy, words, and airtime being wasted by people who seem more concerned with their own personal interests than those of the people as a whole. And I know the devil's in the details, that there's a lot more to the health care issue and I've overly simplified things. I guess all I'm trying to say is that it really shouldn't be this complicated. Universal health care is the right thing to do, and when it comes down to it, the majority of the arguments I hear in opposition have more to do with (or are a side effect of) the state of our government and political system, which are just as broken as the health care system.

And as for the people who are pissed that their tax money will be paying for the health care of people "too lazy to get a job," maybe you should be a bit more pissed about the fact that your tax money has been killing children in Iraq.