It's so discouraging to see the administration abandoning the public option. I have begun to mistrust the words "stakeholders" as much as I now mistrust "family values"--it means something different than what appears on the surface. At this point, "stakeholders" as it applies to health care reform, means "the companies who have made an obscene amount of money over past decades and want to put off true reform for at least another decade of obscene profits." It's also very disheartening to put one's faith in a a party and politicians, and discover (as one suspected all along) that they really are bought and paid for by industry lobbyists.
And as Dave reproved me:
who is this lurker? :) thanks for commenting! you should know as well as anyone the machinations of the insurance companies, fighting them as you do and having uninsured and underinsured children with children of their own.
i realized tho that the party isn't very good, but i think obama is trying to move things forward. he can't do it on his own, tho--we have to make the change ourselves, we have to be the change we want to see. no one else is going to do it for us.
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I agree with Dave. One way is to talk about politics with our neighbors. Here in Utah we're frightened to do that because they will certainly disagree with us. But I think we still have to do it as a means of getting to a dialogue about the situation we're in medically. The conservative pundits don't want dialogue, because then they'd not be so popular.
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