NOT!!! 

Just thought I would give this post a title to get your attention and provoke a little anger and hopefully effect you enough to call that Congress critter, or the White House, AGAIN, to advocate for a public option.  I have been thinking long and hard about this Trigger Option and it just seems like such BS.  It's a totally contrived designation of "Bad Enough" that suggests it is not bad enough already.  We'll take effective action when it really gets bad, and this is not bad enough.  Essentially, 44,000 people dying needlessly in this a nation purported to be the "greatest nation on Earth" is not bad enough. 

For whom?!?!?! 

In my humble opinion, this is already bad enough.  I'm not at all keen on the idea of designating a trigger to give the health insurance thieves another chance.  They have had their chances, and they have failed miserably in providing services.  Did they have no warning people would rebel and reject the notion that they were the only source of help, their private corporation, and that we could not help ourselves and each other after being so completely abused at their hands?  Frankly, I think they never considered it as a possibility, but there were warnings.  They've witnessed Medicare and Medicaid develop in response to a deplorble lack of health services.  They've seen Clinton take a run at changing the system.  Why?  Because it desperately needed change.  Why?  Because it would not, and could not, change itself.  Now we want to give them yet another chance?  Didn't the threat of Clinton's efforts influence them sufficiently to moderate their greed?

How many dead are too many?

I'm just wondering what the trigger will be?  I'm in favor of a body count, if we need to designate a trigger.  If we lack any capacity to judge the behavior of the health insurance industry and its determination to stop healthcare reform, and we feel we must give them one more chance, let's count the bodies.  Evidently, there are those who think the lives already lost should not be sufficient to take away the reins from these malevolent corporate beast.

I am not in agreement with any monetary consideration related to premiums or any other financial measure because we have seen how the data can be so easily skewed and manipulated.  We should also note that a Progressive will not inhabit the White House indefinitely and we need something soon to ensure it survives the next Progressive fall from grace, the next inevitable moment of human weakness.  What if we have a trigger mechanism, and the President in power declines to pull that trigger?  Much the same, the previous President ignored the regulations in place to allow his friends and acquaintances to pilfer the treasures of massive financial institutions.  How can we put so much faith in an unknown future when the past reveals so perfectly clear that these industries have no intention of playing fair?

This changes NOW!

We have it in our reach to make a fundamental change in the way we obtain health care.  We have the precursors of Medicare and Medicaid that show us how to achieve a decent program providing services to the American people - ALL THE PEOPLE!!!  We have the experience of making concessions so fresh in our memories with the oh-so-quaint "donut hole".  Why was this not named "The Bermuda Triangle", where qualified people somehow disappear, and then mysteriously reappear, all the less suited to take care of themselves, much the poorer, with even less the capacity to turn things around then ever before in their lives.  These predators feasted on our seniors, and now we are discussing a trigger somewhere in the future?!?!

44,000 dead.  There is NOTHING wonderful about triggers.