Health care rant

All right, all of you lame-brained, lily-livered, greedy, grasping, partisan, worthless politicians, LISTEN UP. I don't know about the rest of the country, but at least one American is SICK and TIRED of your petty partisan bickering, your incessant lying and exaggerations, and most of all your persistent choices to sacrifice the good of the American people for political and / or personal gain. And don't ANY of you try to tell me that you're just the innocent victim here, that those big, bad Republicans or those Lilliputian Democrats are out to get you. This utter FIASCO that is the current "debate" on health care reform has made one thing very clear. Neither of you are the LEAST bit concerned with anything but making the other guys look bad. Republicans, you've made this very clear with your asinine assertions regarding coverage for millions of illegal immigrants and the elderly undergoing what would amount to (by your arguments) mandatory suicide counseling. Your best arguments (you know, the ones about fiscal responsibility and the fact that we have no way to pay for all this as well as the central role of the oh-so-efficient American government in the administration of this new structure) apparently aren't sensational enough; instead, you'd rather stick with the off-the-wall crap ("DEMOCRATS ARE SOCIALISTS!") that you know will get you air time. Despicable. And Democrats, you're no better. You're flat-out LYING about the "saving money" thing ($2500 per family, Mr. Obama? Really?); this bill is going to cost an incredible amount of money that the country just doesn't have. You have no solid plan about how to pay for it. And your rhetoric demonstrates that the biggest reason you're so hot to pass this measure is to stick it to the Republicans. Once again, you're virtually omitting your strongest arguments (that this could potentially provide coverage to millions of additional Americans which, by the way, benefits both patients from a health perspective and health care workers from a fiscal perspective; then of course there's the little tiny fact that THE SYSTEM WE HAVE AIN'T WORKING!) in favor of "The Republicans are trying to screw you over!" and "We're going to save you money!" Which is true if you're...oh wait, no, it's not going to save you money AT ALL because while this may make coverage more available it does NOTHING to combat the underlying issues that have caused the price of health care to balloon *coughdefensivemedicinecough*. So, in summary, despite the glaring need for honest-to-goodness health care reform, all of you in both parties (and the nominal independents) are fighting over half measures to make political gains. Shame on you. The American people deserve better. Get off the donkeys and elephants and start taking your jobs seriously.

*Ahem* sorry about that. Unless you're one of the aforementioned politicians, in which case I'm not sorry at all. I'm just sick of all of the pointless political crap surrounding an issue that so desperately needs to be addressed in a timely and decisive fashion. Anyhow, last day of summer break tomorrow, and then MS-2 year begins in earnest. I'm actually looking forward to it. Yes, I'm a nerd. 'Nuff said.

Peace and God bless!