Do What You Can To Stop The Health Care Bill

The Republicans have been working behind closed doors for several weeks to create a palatable version of the House Health Care Plan for the country. Now, having just released their plan, they hope to push it through the Senate within the next week. This is a complex bill with far reaching consequences for the quality of life of millions of Americans, so their secrecy and haste must be due to the recognition of the difficulty of taking away benefits once they have been given.

Nobody wants to give back what they have been given, especially not us wealthy people who started life in comfort and have been supported and given hand-outs all our lives. I don’t see how this bill is anything other than a defensive move by the elite to protect our power and wealth.

The heart of this bill seems to be tax cuts for the wealthy that are financed by deep cuts to Medicare and health insurance subsidies for low-income people. These cuts will have real impact on the human beings in our society that are the most vulnerable. This is truly not a Health Care Bill, but an income redistribution plan—from the poor to the rich.

This is wrong. We have an obligation to each other, whatever our life circumstances. The wealth and power of this country come from all the people, not just the ones who run corporations and invest money. We are all in this together and have a moral duty to use our resources to relieve the suffering of those who are in need.

Please do whatever you can to inform yourself about this bill and do what you can to prevent it’s passage in the Senate. I just listened to Elizabeth Warren’s speech on the Senate floor – powerful and upsetting but worth listening to.