Health Care

Dear Republican office holders,
Before digging your heels in, screeching about how single payer health care would take your freedom away, let me remind you: No One is talking about making your private health care illegal or anything. You really need to talk with people who have lived for extended periods of time with no health insurance (FYI -- I have been there myself).

• You need to hear what it's like to wake up in the night with a fever and pray that it's nothing serious.
• You need to hear what it's like to fall and sprain your ankle, wrap it up and hope that nothing's broken.
• You need to hear what it's like to have an asthma attack and hope that pharmacist on the corner will (once again) sell you a rescue inhaler, even though you have no prescription.

Other countries have managed to care for their most important resource -- the people. Why is America lagging and failing in the health care arena? Do you really want to go down in history as the legislators who couldn't drop the backward bottom-line mentality and care about working class Americans? You really need to wake up, smell some serious coffee, and drag yourselves into the 21st Century.