President Obama is making every effort to fulfill one of his main campaign promises and that is to make health care an affordable reality for every American. Members of the GOP are playing political games with our lives and we need to make a stand against it. One leading republican said just last week, "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." I have no doubt that the individual that made that vile statement has the best health coverage available. He doesn't have to worry about paying for his kids braces. He doesn't have to worry about if, God forbid, his wife should need the best oncology care if diagnosed with breast cancer. He doesn't have to worry about having access to a cardiologist should he have a heart attack. Yet these are the kinds of concerns that plague at least 47 million Americans. I'm talking about working class folks who although they make great contributions to our society can not afford health care. Many of their small business employers can not afford to provide health care because they are fighting to keep the doors open. The worker makes just enough to be ineligible for medicare or other State programs which leaves that worker and his/her family without access to medical care. Tens of thousands of people, perhaps millions, are forced to file bankruptcy every year because of medical debt. What about the tens of thousands of people who die before their time because they had no access to basic health care which could have caught and treated many illnesses?
Please take the time to find out where the members of Congress that represent your State stand on this issue. Put faces to the tragedy of the lack of health care. Make your voice be heard. Write letters or emails. Make phone calls. Let's work with President Obama to get our health care system overhauled so that it is worthy of our great nation. No plan will be 100% perfect and without flaws, we can look to our neighbors of the North (Canada) to see that. Recent polls of Canadians say that they overwhelmingly support their national health care flaws and all over the alternative. Don't allow the republican party to continue their gamesmanship to "break" our president, when in fact they are breaking the very people they are supposed to represent.
