BLAME IT ON OBAMA
Friday, February 26th, 2010If you had told me two years ago that I would ever be interested in the health care bill I would have said you were crazy. In the past, when the mail came with a big fat envelope containing car, house, or health insurance I would throw it in some kitchen drawer, never to look at it again. Those insurance contracts were totally boring and I wouldn’t waste a minute looking at them. On the other hand, there were times, when I would spend hours a week on the phone with insurance companies fighting for “injustices” and their unfair practices. But that was the extent of my interest.
So, how did it happen that I played hooky from work on Thursday, February 25th to watch the health care summit on TV, which was being broadcast from the Blair House in Washington, D.C.? I anxiously waited for the 10 a.m. start, and except for occasionally getting up for some food, getting dinner prepared, etc., I was glued to the T.V.set until after 5 p.m. I became annoyed when a station stopped the debate to show a commercial and I found myself switching channels looking for a commercial-free cable station. I went back and forth from MSNBC to CNN to FOX
The feeling I have inside myself is that I am watching history being made. The lucky part for me is to have the time to experience it. Being present while history is being made is invigorating. The debates, and the difference of opinion going along with the process, are energizing.
The health care decisions being made in our Capital involve much more than what it looks like on the surface. The issue goes to the core of our being. Life or death, sickness or health, what do we want for ourselves and for others? On one side we see people able to understand and empathize with the dilemma who want to do whatever it takes to fix the health care system now. The other side says they understand the problem and want to reform the present system too, but they want to start the debate all over, throw out 13 months of work already done, and start from scratch with a “clean sheet of white paper”. The latter group talks about not raising taxes and letting the private sector fix the problem. It is said that the people in Congress have the best health care system in America and many of them don’t know what it’s like to have what 30,000,000 Americans don’t have. Nothing!
I am not alone participating in history being made. For over a year now I have seen people all over the Country in heated debates about health care. Like others, I have written articles about what I have seen and gone to town hall meetings on the subject. I have been asking myself, “how come the entire country has gotten involved in such a boring subject?” Hot and boring just doesn’t seem to go together.
So, who is to blame for this nation-wide involvement? How about blaming President Barack Hussein Obama? President Obama is taking the hit for everything going wrong in America anyway, so let’s just blame him. I think he can handle it. I believe he expects it. More debate, more resistance, more passion, more interest, more action, more change – exactly what he wants. How else could things possibly get done in America?
President Obama has said during his campaign for President and many times after, “I cannot do it alone!” I guess he meant it! He needs the American people to help him. Change needs emotion. Change needs energy. Change needs action. Change needs everyone interested and working. Everyone working toward a more perfect union.
Whatever finally happens to the health care bill, the President has succeeded in getting an entire country worked up over a subject that is intrinsically boring. All Presidents should have in their resumes “community organizer”. So, let’s give President Obama his due. Just blame him for it all.
I guess I will have to start reading all those boring insurance policies now. Ugh!