Of all the news I caught up with this week the most bizarre and sinister news must be coming from the States. This week Obama’s healthcare bill was passed through congress. A major achievement on its own, considering the stiff opposition which it faced. After that, all hell broke lose.
A shitstorm stirred up the likes I have never seen. The insults, the death threats, tthe smashed windows, the fires shot… I hope Obama’s healthcare bill covers psychiatric help to all because it seems a part of the United States lost their collective marbles.
What’s worse, republican officials are just fueling the fire. There is not even the attempt to hide the attempts to whip up a bloodfrenzied mob; they are actually taking part in it. They are at the core of it, spreading fear uncertainty and doubt amongst the populace to incite ‘action’ from the people.
What people don’t seem to realize is that health care insurance has been sucking people dry for years on end and have been getting away with it. Unlike some people might want to believe, healthcare in the states hasn’t been about people for many years; it’s about money.
People fork out ludicrous amounts of money for insurances and having to pay considerable amounts before receiving benefits and sometimes even denying these benefits on the fine print. People who have insurance do so to finance the same type of folks that caused the credit crunch. If anyone’s anger should be focused on anything it’s on those folks.
If there is a threat in the US, it’s not the government that is imposing a ‘communist’ healthcare plan on the people; it’s the pure insanity in which this thing is dealt with. Democracy goes out the window and terror tactics the S.A. would be proud of to deploy take its place.
I hope that the healthcare bill does what it was designed to do, which is to make healthcare affordable from the masses and stop the US from sliding to a third world country state. But most of all, I hope the insanity stops soon and that people will find back their dignity.
Maybe the healthcare bill will bring about the downfall of the US. haha Death by actually having healthcare benefits. I can see it now… “And in today’s news, the downfall of the US as a super power has been traced to the passing of a healthcare plan that would have actually benefited all Americans” The shock.