So now we're hearing that the public option plan is in serious trouble, and that Rahm Emanuel is telling Congress behind closed doors that they can compromise it away. What I find so sad about all this is that even the most progressive reforms being discussed in Washington don't come close to providing the type of hassle-free health-care we need -- a single-payer Canadian/French/British-style system.
I finally watched Michael Moore's Sicko on cable TV this weekend. I've never been a fan of his head-clubbing style of film-making, but this doc makes a very convincing case about how Americans have been fooled into fearing a French-style health-care system. Compared to what we have now in the U.S., France offers a health-care nirvana.
Our current debate almost makes me sick with sadness. Sure, almost any reform passed this year will be an improvement over the current travesty we have now, but it won't come close to fulfilling the dreams of those who correctly chant "health-care is a right."
June 2009 Archives
We're getting table scraps. This was obviously put together very quickly in response to the tidal wave of queer anger hitting the White House this past week. Rahm finally told the president he had a problem with the gays, and fell back on tried and true Clintonian window-dressing to calm us down.
It won't work.
Stop firing our gay soldiers. Stop defending DOMA by equating our love to incest. Stop banning people with HIV from entering the country. Start offering up some change we can believe in.
That's my excuse for not posting here lately. The bf and I and the two cats have got a new addition to our family... a puppy!
She's a lovable yellow English Labrador Retriever. Her name is Stella...
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