Healthcare reform - It is necessary

First, a couple of facts:

The private insurance system in America is more socialism than public healthcare because the few pay for the many. If you're upset about paying for other people's healthcare, you must oppose our current system in which if you are paying premiums, co-pays, etc. you are paying mostly the costs of the uninsured. All rates are higher because of the problem of hospitals and doctors having to recoup their costs from uninsured and bankruptcies.

Second, almost 60% of all bankruptcies are due to medical bills. Over 75% of those families were insured. The lesson: playing by the rules and being responsible does not work. That means the system is broken. That would be like showing up for work, doing your job, and having them hand you a bill rather than a paycheck.

America needs healthcare reform, and it needs to stop being run by for-profit unregulated corporate giants. The myths about "social healthcare" are nonsense. It works around the globe, and provides better quality of life for residents in nearly every country on earth. France has public healthcare, it's cheaper than American premiums, and has more choice than the American system. Rather than listening to ignorant talking heads who are just trying to improve ratings, here is a great grid to show highlights of Single payer vs. public option.

Become informed, don't listen to the sensationalism.

Jason Chaffetz is still a big friggin idiot

Between life being extraordinarily busy, and my growing frustration with humanity so easily led astray by so-called conservative philosophies, I haven't taken the time to write anything here for far too long. But I just wanted to point out that Jason Chaffetz is indeed a complete liar and tool of special interests. 

Today's Salt Lake Tribune reports on a Congressman Chaffetz who now is okay with earmarks, as long as they're good ones. The freshman wants to call good earmarks "Congressionally Directed Spending." Proving that he has no integrity whatsoever, he claims this is a reform effort. 

Jason, renaming something is not reform. It is an elimination of transparency and creative marketing to fool the public. Next time you're in the neighborhood, why don't you give me a call and I can explain what your job is. Maybe then you can actually show up in Washington and do something productive rather than wasting everyone's tax dollars with your "marketing efforts."