The GOP's lack of leadership on Health Care is one of the major reasons I am not a registered republican. It's that simple. If we can build billion dollar bridges to no where and award multi-million dollar no bid Katrina contracts to companies that in turn hire illegal aliens then we can afford to address the health care crisis in our country. And just to be fair, this health care crisis effects everyone. Take a stroll though a VA Hospital waiting room and ask some questions of the long lines of patients sitting there.
A while back the GOP was talking about eliminating the Dept. of Education. Put that back on the table if you have to. This is not about socialized medicine. This is about finding a solution to the health care crisis in our country. I've listed a number of initiatives by faith based groups and local communities that are attacking this crisis head on. Why shouldn't the govenrnment award grants to those bodies to purchase medicine and pay for overhead costs? I'm not in favor of mixing religion and politics but religion and health care is a totally different matter entirely.
If Lexington, Kentucky wanted to open a clinic to treat people with no insurance, you better believe the federal government should have money available to award them a grant. No question.
It has been my experience locally that the people so against better access to health care are the "HAVES." And the "HAVE NOTS" are for it. I'll say it again, one's personal accumulated wealth should have no bearing on one's access to health care in this country. Illegal aliens receive free health care and our own citizenry does not get so much as a bottle of Tylenol? Any reasonable minded person should be outraged.
There is pork in that there barrel that can pay for whatever we need. We may have to tighten the bootstraps on some other things, but we can do this folks!
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