Health Care, Socialism and the Fall of the American Empire

This is a response to an article that was sent to me...

The health care situation is out of control and is going to be the first of many situations that one by one erode the frame work of our faux-democracy (reference Bush/Gore 2000) and will finally bring about the collapse of the United States of America.



As for classifying legitimately concerned citizens as unruly mobs I don't think that is going too far. If they were legitimately concerned citizens they would be interested in hearing the response to their questions instead of denigrating to mindless yelling and pointless name calling. If you've seen footage of some of these things than you know what I'm talking about. They are only half a dozen pitchforks and a few torches away from an angry mob.

The way I see it there are two major problems with health care reform right now.

1. Lobbyists for the medical insurance industry are some of the most influential out there. They have very deep pockets and will do anything they can to scare you into keeping the status quo because if things change they're going to make less money. They don't care that the people are being denied coverage by their insurance or can't afford to get the medicine that could save their life. They only have an interest in helping those who can pay for it. To me that is WRONG on the most basic moral levels and people aren't going to stand it anymore.

2. The American people are taking out years of anger on this one issue. These people aren't up in arms about health care they're up in arms about government. They think that the country is falling into some sort of socialist trap and they're all blaming Obama and the democrats for this. This might be the greatest illusion that Bush/Cheney were able to pull off. Upon taking office Obama had the tough position of having to deal with GM and the end result was something that no one wanted, but Obama was then labeled a "nationalizer". The people all too readily forgot that it wasn't Obama nor the democrats who nationalized huge sections of our economy. Fannie, Freddie, AIG, etc. As for socialism I never have understood when it was decided to be the worst possible thing that could ever happen. Without abiding by the basic tenets of socialism society would never have even gotten started. Think about people back in the day (3000BC) and tell me how socialism is different than a clan society? The "every man for himself" philosophy of American capitalism is the heart of the problem and people don't understand that. They're angry because they've lost their jobs and the government is having to bail out banks and they blame "socialism". They forget that unchecked capitalism is what led the government to have to do this and don’t realize the full effects (25% unemployment?) of what would have happened if the government had done nothing.

This is just the beginning of the end of the United States of America. The country is too large and too diverse in its ideals to come to any substantial conclusions that would save its life and the current health care issue is just one example. I guess some things aren't "too big to fail".