Funny how things work out. When health care was on the front burner, it was so manifestly awful, people were outraged and the Dems made noises about holding off. Once they made those noises, people (that means citizens — ordinary voters) took the pressure off. I just got word that the Dems are using this lull to sneak health care right back on the August agenda. They care nothing about the voters’ concerns. They care only that the voters keep off their backs, so that they, the Dems, can go ahead with their antidemocratic schemes.
Here’s what you need to do: Keep the pressure on. Contact your Representatives. Contact your newspapers. Write or just forward emails explaining to friends and families why you think it’s a really bad decision for Congress to enact a healthcare plan that is economically unsustainable but that will, during its short period of functionality, decrease the quality of care, encourage old people to kill themselves, put the government in charge of deciding who gets treatment and what treatment they get, destroy initiative and innovation, have America pay for all health care for illegal aliens so as to turn our border as the starting-line for people eager to take what’s left of our dying system, and destroy any semblance of personal privacy. (And how a government that supports Roe v. Wade, which is hinged on a magical Constitutional right to privacy can justify this kind of bold governmental action destroying the privacy of every individual in America beats me.)
Call. Write. Protest. Do. Something.