Dear Health Care Town Halls

Is this really what its come to? American citizens fighting and arguing and screaming and getting their knickers in a twist because we want to revamp something that should have been done over years ago? So many people are against the health plan, but so far, no solid reasons for why it shouldn't be allowed have come up. Detractors say that overhauling the health care system would cause the nation to undertake a massive debt. Ummm, newsflash: We are already in a SHITLOAD of debt. Doing things in the same way would only reinforce the problem. The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. Why then, would anything but switching up the health care system be an option? I guess some people like getting their insurance declined, or really don't mind paying ridiculous amounts just to get an arthritis prescription.

People also say the new health plan would usher us into a socialist era. Since when is a healthy, un-diseased nation socialist? I'd like to think the UK and Canada have something going for them, when they're spending much less on health care, yet have healthier people. I suppose if reformed health care is socialist, then I will be as Red as Mao. Then again, spending money on anything but war is plain old un-American. It just seems like people are against universal health care until something goes wrong with them. I guess a stroke or malignant tumors are the only true stimulus for change in America these days...