The anti-obamacare crowd is pretty loud now, from my point of view. I believe now that they didn’t get a chance to pass this before the recess and the town halls started, that it will not pass in its current form. If Obama or the current congress wants health insurance/health care reform, they’ll have to start over. Now, because I’m such a nice guy and I’ve been paying attention to this for awhile, I’m going to give the Democrats some pointers. Based on my assessment of the situation, here is what you can do to help yourselves.
Address the Concerns
I have health insurance provided through my employer. I get excellent care from my doctors. I’ve never really had a serious complaint. I can see the doctor I want, my insurance pays for a CRAZY amount of it. I get quick access to specialists. Based on studies I’ve read and polls I’ve seen, many other people feel the same way. Will this make my care better? Worse? Will it stay the same? Nobody can answer this with any certainty. Or at least not well enough to my liking. I know Obama says “If you like your current plan you can keep it” however drafts in the House bill point differently. Plus the simple math of the tax an employer will pay for not offering care would seem to be less than offering private insurance. That means I don’t get to keep my care.
People have questions. All you are doing is speaking in slogans. “Our current system costs too much”, “our system doesn’t work”, and “we can’t keep the status quo”. Answer the questions, address the concerns, and be prepared that we might not like all the answers. Trust us to make an informed decision. Our current system is not perfect, and neither will anything you create. The sooner you get over it the sooner we as people get over it.
Stop Fighting the People and Back Up Your Plan with Facts
This fight has become more about fighting back protesters, discouraging dissent, calling people un-American and discrediting REAL Americans more than it is about health care.
The hypocrisy right now is just nuts to me. It’s like the Left suddenly forgot about the Bush Social Security tour of 2005. Labor Unions and the AARP spent money to bus people to these events and create the ‘opposition’. The press didn’t get upset then. To be honest this is the first I’ve ever complained about it.
Let’s all be honest with each other here: It’s the RIGHT of every American to protest, swarm, attend, speak, and be heard at these events. It doesn’t matter if you have an organization doing it, someone paying someone else to show up (as long as they share the same view anyway). I mean come on here, the people who praise Barack Obama for being a Community Organizer by trade are complaining about… the community organizing?? That deserves a WTF. For the Left to say they never organized to purposefully drown out opposition OR make the opposition louder than it really is, is just nuts. They need to get off their horse.
Now I do agree that we all need to be respectful, and not yell, talk over each other and the like. However, it seems from what I’ve seen that when these folks are presented with the tough questions they just crumble and can’t answer without the canned statement from the president (stated above) or some politician type talk.
Tell me what page of the bill prevents this from happening, tell me what page helps me, tell me what page answers my question, tell me what page makes sure I won’t get rationed care. The fact is right now most of these people can’t. I mean the same questions come up at EVERY town hall, so how do you NOT have this prepared? If you show us facts, we can tell you how’d we like the bill to read or if you should tweak something, etc. Right now we are more confused if anything. We have questions and nobody has definitive answers. How in any moral or right fashion could you have passed any ‘reform’ before the recess? The reactions all over t
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