Health Care Costs Requires A Long View, Not A Two Minute Sunday Morning "Talking Point" Presentation Invoking the National Deficit As An Excuse

You probably know the answer to the questions which follow, but Representatives and Senators, who claim to operate for the good of the nation and its people go on television on Sunday mornings and ignore the obvious answers because they are not beholden to you, they are beholden to their funding corporate interests.
1. In the long run, does our country save money by providing access to all children for vaccination for serious childhood diseases? If yes, why don't we do it?
2. In the long run, does access to health care, yield healthier adults whose life time health care expenses are lower? If yes, why don't we provide that access now?
3. In the long run, does providing competent,  accessible and affordable obstetrical care for all women reduce the likelihood of injury during obstetrical delivery? If yes, why don't we provide that care now?
4. Does pollution-free clean air reduce the frequency of death and expensive emergency hospitalizations for children and adults? If yes, why are we battling about environmental protection and clean air?
5. Does providing supervised physical activity for kids, instead of sitting them on sofas at home watching TV, help children to be more physically fit and to reduce the long-term costs of their care? If so, why are our kids parked in front of television sets?
6. Does enforcing employment safety rules reduce the frequency and cost of injury born ultimately by the public? If yes, why don't we enforce them?
7. Does the provision of appropriate prescribed medications which the elderly can afford make it more likely that they will take the medicines prescribed by their physicians? If yes, why don't we provide them?
8. Does the provision of appropriately inspected and approved food reduce the number of annual deaths from food poisoning? If yes, why are we experiencing food-borne outbreaks of disease and death?
9. If we have a test for Alzheimers disease, does that mean we can cure the disease? If we have no genuinely effective drugs for Alzheimers Disease, why don't the news reports say so?
10. Is it OK to have "a little diabetes"? If it isn't, what is our national policy to prevent diabetes?
11. Is it better to have a patient with cancer seen earlier or later by competent health care providers? Ask any doctor or nurse.
12.Is there any sensible reason why the federal government negotiates pharmaceutical prices for the Veterans' Administration beneficiaries but not for those who pay for Medicare Part D? So why doesn't it?
13. And finally, other than fancy words, what is our Administration, Congress, our Legislatures and Governors doing today to make Americans healthier?

Failure to provide competent accessible ethically appropriate care at all life stages inflates our long-term health care costs, seriously increases our budget deficit and harms our quality of life.  Why are our President, Senators, Congresspeople, state Governors and legislators not talking about the real issues now?