Healthy Inevitability

The Associated Press headline explains it all quite vividly: Health Care Summit Ends With No Compromise.

Really? How uncharacteristically shocking!

Although many of us anticipated a swift exchange of ideological cooperation and concrete blueprints for effective health care coverage, we were (surprisingly?) left without any progress whatsoever.

Let me summarize in case you missed it: a handful of Democrats pretended to care about small businesses while more than a handful of Republicans promoted policies that would directly place poor families with preexisting conditions into a high-risk pool of guaranteed hopelessness.

The main problem I have with this entire health care agenda is that nobody pays any attention to the actual implications of health care on families, people and American individuals.

The interests of corporations, the wealthiest citizens and government spending (as if our economy ever allows for a “debtless” society), are put to the top of priority lists rather than everyday workers of various classes, races, genders and geographic locations.

Acting in the best of well-rehearsed, economically orchestrated intentions, Democrats and Republicans both veer off into directions of transparent self-interest, refusing to actually engage in dialogue about what it means to not have health care, to not have a stable income and to have no control over some medical and biological circumstances.

Personally, I still insist that a single payer system is the only logical way to remedy the Health Care Cancer.

No other system accounts for individual circumstances, disadvantages and financial feasibility. Yet presupposed Capitalist ideology will never persuade disillusioned politicians to fight for this particular system.

So my question then becomes, who really thought the Health Care Summit would solve anything? All we can hope that our Congress passes some form of legislation that will benefit those who are less off to some kind of positive, permanent degree.