The Difference That Makes No Difference Makes No Difference

If you were asked what single life factor is most important to you and your loved ones, what would you answer? Think about this before you reply. How many of you would answer,"good health"? Without good health most everything else would be burdensome if not impossible regardless of how much money you have. Whoops what did I write? Money enables you to get whatever you want or need. Or does it? Ask a multi millionaire who is dying from an incurable cancer and do you believe he will answer "money"?

Ask the nearly 50 million Americans who have no health care because they cannot afford the typical $12,000 insurance policy. They may die even though no medical care at all is available. Or they may suffer from diseases that they cannot afford to have treated. Money in their cases can make a difference. But should money determine whether or not health care is available to all, regardless of your ability to pay?

Most civilized countries in the world have nationalized health care for every citizen regardless of ability to pay. Social tax provides the cost of equal access to health care independent of one's income. Our country is the only civilized country that does not assure every citizen equal access to health care for rich and poor alike. In this respect we live in the dark ages.Will we emerge soon or will we continue to disregard the right to health care even as we proclaim that the right to life is paramount. How can we be so adamant about the right to life without being equally demanding for equal health care for all? Is it alright for a child to be born into a world where health care is only the right for the privileged who can afford it?

As a new President is about to lead our country we must all voice our demand for universal health care based upon a single payer Insurance companies and HMO's and their executives must not be enriched by a new, slightly tweaked, health care policy. The working people, and the poor and needy must be included amongst the recipients of the benefits, without assuring the financial well being or bailout of more business moguls and corporations as we already have with the financial conglomerate bailouts in affect and pending. The medical practitioners must also be assured fair pay as they are in civilized countries where their people are covered by single-payer, universal health care.

If we are served another ploy, that pretends to provide universal health care under the guise of protecting the medical insurance companies, we will once again abandon the people who not only deserve equal health care, but posses the the fundamental right to such care. We cannot pretend that some minuscule variation on the current corporate medicine, managed by insurance companies, is all that is needed.

The "difference that makes no difference makes no difference". Please President-Elect Obama make a difference for all citizens. Help lead the way to universal, single-payer health care.