We've Squandered Our Resources for Health Care

If America believes that the November, 2008 national election will solve its health care system woes, it is delusional. Our current Republican administration is a bankruptcy government which won't leave enough assets in the treasury to pay for important domestic programs, and certainly not enough to support a national efficient and high quality health care system. Not only has our Republican government demonstrated that it is bankrupt morally, constitutionally, politically and financially, it has cynically squandered our resources in a manner it would condemn if it had been done by our citizenry. When politicians retire from federal office they enjoy first class health care benefits. If their illnesses require extensive care, they have the resources of the Federal government to provide for them through insurance. If the average citizen becomes ill and exhausts his personal insurance benefits and bank account, and then purchases health care using a credit card, and then becomes bankrupt, he or she will not be discharged from that credit card debt because credit card companies got the Republican Congress and Administration to bar discharge. The politician receives the care needed; the needy citizen and the citizen's family become financially broken by the health care system's costs and irresponsible Congresspeople and their financial institution supporters. Don't pin your family's health care hopes on election year promises: the promises can't be fulfilled.