Healthcare, Liars, and Buffoons

I have been sitting here after watching for the 4th time, MSNBC's Keith Olberman's hour long presentation on healthcare. To date, he has presentede the most direct, common sense commentary on this crucial issue.

Personally, I try to perform due dilligence on every issue I am interested in, however, healthcare is one which fascinates me. Perhaps because I spent 18 years as a hospital administrator, in all of the systems, government, non-profit, for profit and religious, and I saw the profession from all sides. Perhaps because I am married to a Registered Nurse. Finally, perhaps because I have been a serious user of the systems, and know personally, how messed up things are.

I tend to agree with humorist Bill Maher when he says, "Just when I think Americans can't get any dumber, they go and prove me wrong!" Personally, I think Americans are so apathetic, they just don't really care to understand issues and certainly don't do their homework.

We continually re-elect the liars and buffoons we call congress and tend to believe everything these fools say. People, they're politicians, THEY LIE for a living. They also don't really care about their constituency until the voters get angry enough to kick their butts out of office. We allow the health insurance industry to buy the buffoons off with billions of dollars, and then wonder why we're slaves to the crooks at the insurance industry.

If you haven't heard Wendell Potter, former VP at Cigna for many years, then you need to listen. He is blowing the whistle on the crooks in the industry he was part of for than 20 years. He is telling the truth, of that I can assure you.

I've listened to the liars at organizations like AARP. Oh yes, they profess to be looking out for their members, but, all AARP is a giant insurance broker touting one of the worst, in my opinion, insurance companies in the country, United Health Care. I have yet to see AARP take a position against the insurance companies and for the public and members.

Stop allowing the right wing and left wing nut jobs affect your thinking. They have not done their homework and in most cases, are bought and paid for by these nutjobs.

If we as Americans do not stand up to the insurance industry and their lackeys, then nothing will change, and America will continue to decline.

The media in this country have failed miserably to tell the truth. Oh, yes, every so often they get something correct, but even that's becoming rare.
The broadcast media has become so one-sided, and so inundated with liars the likes of those that appear on CNN, FOX, and yes MSNBC, that the truth be damned and let's go for ratings!!

Take time to research and listen to all points of view and then try to find one that you adopt without getting crazy about it.

Think about it!!

Random Thoughts March 22, 2009

When I put this blog on line, I wanted to have a place to express my thoughts about what's going on in our world. I wanted to apply common sense and generalities. So here goes.

Did you ever wonder why the news media doesn't tell the truth? In my opinion they are as bas as the liars and thieves on Capitol Hill, and we know what they've done.

People seem to believe that it's time to "throw all the bums out" and start over.

We have a judicial system that favors those with money. Why? Is it time, as Shakespeare said to "get rid of all the lawyers?

Why can't we have a Universal, Single Payor Health System? It seems we can't do anything but all insurance companies to run our lives. Did you know they are exempt from Anti-trust laws? I overheard this on a recent TV program.

I listen to people complain all the time, but when I ask them what THEY are going to do to help correct our issues, they come up with a blank stare!

I listen to all sides of the political spectrum. I'm Independent in my thinking. Neither the Liberal nor the Conservative sides really make sense. In fact, I was listening to the Fix Noise bunch the other day, and I had to turn it off because their comments were so wrong and dangerous. Especially the ones espoused by Glen Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity. These 3 seem to incite the populous to dangerous levels. And when they are caught in untruths, they, in my opinion, always blame others for their lack of truthfulness.

I wish more folks would take an Independent position and before they brand themselves Liberal or Conservative, they study ALL sides of the issues, and remember the quote, "Those that do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it." May I suggest that you take a look at some of the great blunders in world history that cause many empires to crumble. Are we on that path?

That's it from my tent for today!

The Lonesome Voice