Tools for the Opposition

In the the world of the Great Health Care debate it's easy to portray the government at Darth Vader and the private sector as Luke Skywalker. The debate is played out as the classic battle between good vs evil. Both sides have a role to play but left unchecked one side will always gain an advantage against the other.
Is it about cost and the government's inability to deliver services that the private sector thinks it can do best.? No it's about the middle class's disdain for the poor. The poor has always been lectured on the aspects of staying strong and the virtues of capitalism. The middle class sees socialism if the poor are given to much. The middle class needs to wake up because the wealthy have been enjoying socialism for a long time by walking on the backs of the poor and the middle class via the golden shoes of lobbyists which the rich can not only afford but write off the expense of those lobbyists on their taxes.
All the arguments that were used against Social Security and Medicare are the same arguments now being use against health care. American would be in a lot of deep do-do if it were not for both of those programs and the same will happen if we don't get universal health care passed and signed into law. Health care reaches into practically every aspect of American life. If we can't get this right we have no chance of solving the challenges that are sure to come.
I do not expect the health care bill that President Obama signs will be a perfect bill and one that I prefer but I know the bill will be a gigantic leap for health care in America. What passes will not be the final word but rather a beginning of affordable health care for all, rich or poor.