Health care reform is threatened by forces of greed, selfishness, and fear. It is time to wake up!!!

Please indulge my moment of moral outrage -- What sort of country do we live in when millions, including children, go without regular health care? How can people call themselves "Christians" when they actively rally against universal health care? How can we live in fear of contracting a chronic illness that can bankrupt us? How can spend the highest-per-capita on health care in the world and have some of the lowest outcomes? Why do we trust insurance companies and bureaucrats (who are amoral, private profiteers) but are afraid of government regulators? Why do reward the number of procedures a doctor provides versus the wellness of the patient? How can you play politics with people's lives and health, and sleep well at night? Are we that stupid to put our health in the hands of uncaring corporations?

Our country needs to look deeply at itself and reexamine its values and do what is right, creating an effective and efficient medical system for all its citizens -- not just for its elite, especially the Republican Congressmen who refuse to give the rest of the country the same medical benefits they enjoy at our expense. Where is their MORAL RESPONSIBILITY? THEIR CONSCIENCES? And THEIR SENSE OF COMPASSION? This is the party of corporate interests and the plutocracy, not Abraham Lincoln! He would be absolutely appalled by their short-sightedness, selfishness and greed (and would summarily quit the GOP). And so am I.