And It Gets Even Crazier

I just received the following from moveon.org, and thought it worth passing on.

"Our progress is under attack.

Their majority is not even a day old, but House Republicans are already getting ready to pass a bill to repeal health reform.

Instead of focusing on the future, they want to put insurance companies back in charge of our health care. To go back to the days when these companies could deny coverage to children based on pre-existing conditions, cancel coverage when people would get sick, or limit the care you could receive -- even when you needed more. When seniors would be forced to choose between paying their mortgage and paying for their prescription drugs, simply because they landed in the "donut hole" in coverage."

And now my own take on the subject.

The Tea Party screamed to all who would listen that they want to repeal the new health care law. Many mainstream Republican lawmakers are jumping on this bandwagon, as well. Just exactly what would repeal of this bill mean? For starters, thirty two million Americans (among them many single parent families and children) who now have access to health care thanks to the bill would loose that access. Patients who can now not be denied coverage by insurance companies for pre-existing conditions could again be denied. Prior to the new health care reform being passed, one out of every seven people who applied for individual health care plans were turned down by insurance carries due to pre existing conditions. The new health care law removes insurance company caps as to how much medical compensation a patient may receive for catastrophic illnesses. Those caps would be reinstated. Free screenings for cancer would also go away. These and many other advantages would be done away with and replaced with........well, fact is they would be replaced with nothing, as no elected Tea Party politician has come forth with any new health care plans, other than the same old "Let the private sector handle it," which by the way, is one of the main reasons health care was in such sad shape to begin with, as Insurance companies have committed the equivalent of armed robbery on the American public for decades. Other entities have contributed to the poor condition of our nation's health care, but the insurance companies lead the pack.

The Republicans have been in Power in The House for just three days, yet already, they want to tear down instead of building.  Ever watch a building come down, or watch one being built? Tearing down takes a wrecking ball, but building takes a good plan and skill.  The Republicans talk about reducing the deficit, but want to repeal the new health care law, which by estimates of the non partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will increase the federal deficit by hundreds of billions. Add to this their push that the wealthy be allowed to keep their generous tax cuts (which will add still another seven to nine hundred billion to the deficit) and it is obvious that while protecting big business and the wealthy, the Republicans give only lip service to actually reducing the deficit.  They want everyone to surrender  a bite for the common cause as long as that bite doesn't come out of their sandwich.  Some deficit reduction crew they turned out to be.