errm... say what? The public option is back on the table?? MORE Kabuki?

I haven't done much posting on health care reform, because I thought it was dead.

And all of a sudden, it is back into consideration after the greediest, biggest, private insurances thought they were safe, and hiked premiums up 39% and above because they thought they had won????? And that people would go along with it, and just take it or drop out and be uninsured?

Alan Grayson was right. 'Don't get sick. And if you do, die quickly.' How very succinct. Wellpoint is dropping ill people from their coverage as fast as they can to make even more profits.

If Dickens were alive, he'd get another aneurism for 'outrage'.

I don't trust all this posturing any more, I really do not. Tja, elections are coming up, and despite what John Bonehead Boehner says, a majority of Americans want to have a choice. Polls show that... It is all over the internets, and am sure the polls are correct.

And Washington is just spineless. This past year has disgusted me, and I have good reason to compare.

My friend Peter is in hospital where I am. It was 'five minutes to midnight', he was told, and I had to fight like never before to get him to agree to go there.

I'm not relating this to garner sympathy, or anything personal. Really not. I have a point to make.

As I have often explained, we have a single-payer system, and have explained how it works.

A public option is a good start toward getting things in balance.

As I write this, there are hundreds if not thousands of people who are losing their insurance, incurring costs through co-pay, and going bankrupt and not able to afford seeing a doctor. That is fact.

I had a mail with a series of questions regarding my friend, and they floored me. Regarding the sanitary conditions at hospital, and were they leaving him in his own defecation, being disrespectful, and on and on... She has had some very major surgeries, and I never want to be in a place where she was, if that is the case. Some of those questions shocked me.

To the point where I was just fucking speechless.

So.... to answer the questions.... I go in at different times of the day. And no matter what time I go in, everything is very very clean, and his bedding is always pristine. The personell is very kind to him, and polite, and never impose on his privacy or what he wants. They don't put up with 'shenanigans', and remain polite even still. They are professional, and you can see they aren't exactly thrilled to change his urine bottle... but they are good to him.

I have no issue whatsoever with the care he is getting.

He started getting physiotherapy to make him stronger so he can get out of the bed and into his wheelchair by himself.

He will be 71 next month... if he makes it.

And he won't get a bill... or be financially hurt by it. Which is why I am even writing about this.

I think.... after watching this kabuki for more than a year.... it is all grandstanding and worrying about being re-elected, than really DOING something, and it makes me really angry.

And for all the talk about 'oh, that is Socialism', thus BAD?

Humbug. Socialism is not communism.

And I like what Bernie Sanders is doing.

I hope this isn't a Kabuki move....