A Salute to Nancy Pelosi
Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 3:41PM Contributed by Nasa.
I've watched a bit of these endless Health Care Reform meetings today. Mostly, just bickering, but one key thing was said by a politician that I had never heard said and strikes to the core of the Health Care Issue. I was so happy to hear her say it publicly that I had to create a space to bring attention to it, albeit this tiny corner of the internets. Take a look at this quote:
"I want to talk for a moment about what it means to the economy. Imagine an economy where people could change jobs, start businesses, become self-employed, pursue their artistic aspirations, or be entrepreneurial and start new businesses if they were not job locked because they have a child who is bipolar or a family member who is diabetic with a pre-existing condition. And all of the other constraints that having health care or not having health care places on an entrepreneurial spirit. Think of an economy with that dynamism — of people following their pursuits, taking risks — we want them to take risks and yet we lock them down. And we have an anvil around our businesses because of these increasing costs of health care." - Nancy Pelosi
You can read her full speech at the Summit here
I really can't put it much better myself. I've been saying this the entire time. Many people are concerned about a lack of freedom caused by the Government when they don't even have the freedom from a minimum wage job at Walmart. It's easy to pay people poor wages when they depend on Health Care for chronic issues that are sometimes caused by the level of living that is part of accepting that wage. The current Health Care system is a trap game, even at times, for those that are reasonably employed.
Health Care needs to be reformed, not just for the obvious reasons, but so that more people can live this supposed "American Dream" that we hear so much about. I salute Nancy Pelosi for mentioning something that I think is so important to the discorse.








