Americans don't get it, health care, not just medicare not just Obamacare, needs reformation across the board. Here's what conservative talk show host and columnist Bill O'Reilly wrote 26 May 2011, "voters simply do not understand that Medicare has to be reformed." (
source). He goes on to throw in the idea that social security is in the same boat and that no amount of raising taxes will fix either program. Well, score a point for Bill O'Reilly. Both programs and, indeed, the entire US economy is in trouble insofar as we continue to allow giant corporations to dictate costs to us and allow the middle-men insurance companies to derive their profits as well. The USA pays far, far more for health care than any of our peer nations. What is driving up the costs of medicare? What is eating up an escalating portion of the GDP? Health care costs. The day that health care became an industry was the beginning of the downfall of our economy because it is the one thing most people will do anything to protect. The majority of people want to live and live long. It's easy to profit of it because they will do almost anything to stay alive and keep their loved ones alive. Which is precisely why it cannot and should not be an industry and cannot and should not be left up to profit mongers to set prices and run middle men. People don't want to talk about nationalized health care in the United States because they've been brainwashed by the very companies that are gaining from the inflated costs. Well, then, listen to Bill O'Reilly, he's right. Something has got to change. What needs to change, however, is the power of who's making this decision. It needs to be taken out of the hands of the health care, pharmaceutical, and health insurance industries and given back to the people. And we need to instituted nationalized health care immediately. It's the only way to save the budget while keeping any semblance of a health care system in our country. Ironically, there's no peer nation with whom we do business that doesn't have a nationalized from of health care from China to the UK. Why do we continue to ignore it? Why do we continue to mess with intermediate hogwash like the latests health care plan? And, finally, why do we listen to the fork tongues who tell us our economy is collapsing and we need to reform medicare and social security by either privatizing them or eliminating them when, in fact, we can have both by nationalizing them instead!