It is largely agreed that America has pretty poor health care provisions for its citizens. Any time changes to the health care system were proposed, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and other big money sources dug their heels in, and nothing happened, nothing was changed.
Until the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is a good start toward improving our health care provisions.Opponents of the Act took their cause all the way to the Supreme Court, where its constitutionality was, in large part, upheld.
What struck me as ironic about the entire thing is that almost everyone, from private citizens to larger companies, would say we needed better health care, yet no one wanted to DO anything about it! When someone did take the initiative to make changes to improve a system that was not working, it was fought tooth and nail.
Although it makes no sense, it seems to me people are screaming for changes to be made and then vehemently opposing any changes they are faced with. They want changes to be made, but only if it doesn't affect them or what they conceive to be their precious rights.
Now we have the issue of gun violence. No one, since perhaps before 1994?, has made any effort to make reasonable changes to our gun laws. It's taken the violent death of 26 people in an Elementary school to force the issue. An initiative was taken, and changes are in the works, and on the heels of the President's speech, 33 days from a massacre in an Elementary school, the right wing lunatic fringe is again all fired up because these changes will affect their precious rights, fighting tooth and nail against any improvements to what has proven to be a broken system.
I don't understand it.
When did owning an assault rifle become more important than people's lives? What are people thinking?
