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So for a year, A YEAR, A LONG, LONG YEAR, health care reform has been on the front burner, on CNN, on MSNBC, everywhere and on the lips of every Tom, Dick and Nancy in Washington and outside of Washington who has an opinion, a bias an ax to grind and turf to protect.

So for a year, A YEAR, ok you get it, we have been subjected to this endless, ENDLESS bickering about how this will or won't work. The point that's missed well there are many but here's my point; we can spend trillions on war machines, we can spend trillions on highways, we already spend trillions on social medical programs; so then why, oh why are some thirty million American uninsured? And more importantly; WHY DO SOME OF YOU WHO HAVE POWER AND CONTROL AND MONEY, WHY DO YOU NOT CARE?

I'm insured, by the grace of God. I had a very good friend, ok former partner teach me how to work the system so that I could acquire insurance in spite of being self employed and in spite of a pre-existing condition. Of course I pay well over five hundred dollars a month for my insurance and well, sorry to say Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, it ain't all that great. If I contract cancer or some other catastrophic illness, it will destroy me financially if I decide to fight and live. Sad isn't it?

So to Congress, to Governors, to Attorney Generals in various states who PROMISE to sue should health care reform pass; you with your safe government SOCIALIZED medicine and one hundred percent coverage; I hope and pray for you that you'll never, NEVER find yourselves with a pre-existing condition and lacking coverage. I hope you find the grace, the courage, the nads to step up and pass a bill that albeit not perfect will at least afford thirty million of your country folk an opportunity for health care coverage.

I hope that you in power will think about these people when you next have to vote on billion dollar airplanes, highways and other ear mark bills. I hope you think about your country folk when you go to your doctor or to Bethesda Naval Hospital and you don't even have to make a co-pay and you are completely covered. I hope that you think about us when you have to have a CAT scan and you don't have to pay for it because, well, we pay for your health care.