Health care reform is almost dead. Not that it ever really got off the ground. I blame the President. Ultimately he is our leader and by leaving this to the dysfunctional congress with little input is disastrous.

It was his job to pitch this and this man couldn’t sell his way out of a paper bag. He sold his hope and change during the presidential run, but must have blown his nut as a salesman. This has been an undeniable train wreck. I blame him and that is that. The buck stops with him or starts with him and the pitch has been so mismanaged. So where did he go wrong?

From my point of view, he abandoned his desire of years ago of a single payer system and that was the core of this debacle. Medicare for all and how we fund it would have been a lot more of a pitch that is understandable for the masses. They could have taken on the right-wing head on and argued why this is not necessarily bad. To try for only a public option and to get down in the mud with the details of all that, was too convoluted for anyone to understand. It comes down to a simple sales pitch. Only simplicity has a chance.

It is too complicated to sell any of this. They need to scrap everything, come back next month and start over. All they need to do is sell Medicare for all and how to fund that. I am in a small group of people. Only 16% of right leaning people want a single payer plan. That is where I stand. Australia charges everyone who works two percent on their paychecks to cover everyone. Something like that is what I want.

I don’t believe in Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny or the Socialist Boogieman. Health care for all is a value judgment. You judge when an organization that goes to third world countries and sets up tents to give people health care comes to America and starts setting up tents in stadiums.Once I seen that.

I had enough. This is a moral outrage for me and I want government to spend our money on the health of our people and not road and schools rebuilding nations that can’t stop themselves from killing one another.

I want Medicare ran in a conservative fantastical way for all. I want to fund it and relieve our business of this burden so they can compete on a world stage for their products and services. I am a Right-Libertarian and Republican leaning man who wants Medicare for all.

You take your right-wing ideological oppositional madness and go at three in the morning to one of those lines where Americans are waiting single file for health care. You go see how many people in line “have” health care, but services are denied or not available. You will find that makes up most of the crowd. Then, you go back to your Church, get on your knees, and ask God for Obama to have the courage to push for Medicare for all. Whoever is advising this president is blowing it.

C. Rich

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