National Health Care: Bill Moyers’ Interview with Bill Maher
August 29, 2009 5 Comments
With all of the politics surrounding health care reform, I was relieved to watch Bill Maher interview Bill Moyers about this subject. The conversation was spot on & I think everyone, regardless of their political opinions, should take the time to watch this interview & reflect upon the message.
Would you feel okay knowing that you can afford a $25,000 operation to save your life while a person on the next floor is being denied the same operation because they don’t have the means to afford it? The health of our society is not a privilege of the rich & it is time that we work towards a solution to fixing a broken system which is run by insurance companies, drug companies & Wall Street.
For those who fear Socialism don’t forget about the public school system or the public library. Remember that Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid will be there to help you in retirement. It is true that these programs are not perfect however with adequate funding there is incredible room for improvement, which brings me to my next point.
When we are channeling billions of dollars to fund wars all over the world, people mostly keep their mouths shut but when we begin to funnel money towards rebuilding & improving our own systems it seems as though people scream from the mountaintops. I suspect that most of this noise is coming from a minority of people who have a financial interest in not having a public health care system (stock brokers, insurance & drug corporations and politicians who rely on these industries to finance their campaigns).
It isn’t enough to form your opinion based on what you see on CNBC or Fox News. You shouldn’t listen to Bill Moyers or Barack Obama. Instead, use your head to form your opinion based on what is in your heart. I found a wonderful quote which I feel sums up the resistance by the general population:
The awakening of social consciousness has always been resisted by the ego. The ego is attached to it’s construct of reality which is based on it’s identity as separate from all others. Resistance to universal health care as a human right is the ego asserting its disconnection from the whole. The rest of the debate is just smoke, mirrors and projection.
For some reason we feel that we are better than the poor. That we work hard for what we have and we feel that others should have to work hard too, not just have things handed to them. The problem with this is that our health is not something we should have to earn. We deserve to be healthy, even if we are poor.
Watch a portion of the Bill Moyers interview with Bill Maher here.
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Good Job Steven! I also think that it is ridiculous that people are so wrapped up in their selfish ways and are forgetting how this affects the rest of the nation. A human-beings health should not be denied care because of the lack of money. It is time that the United States of America should offer all citizens the right to their proper health care needs regardless of the cost!
“It isn’t enough to form your opinion based on what you see on CNBC or Fox News. You shouldn’t listen to Bill Moyers or Barack Obama.”
Question everything that can’t be verified with legitimate facts.
The trouble with anything these days is that hard, honest facts require energy & effort. When it comes to life, especially politics, people absorb the “wisdom” of the pundits accepting their propaganda as reality. It is sad to think that our “news” stations are largely comprised of commentators rather than reporters. We hear more opinions (from either side of an issue) than we hear honest reporting.
Whatever happened to someone simply reporting facts? Its no wonder people are so confused about the issues…we are unable to decipher fact from fiction. Of course, we largely ignore our responsibility of being an informed constituency.
We’ve become a passive audience. We’re disconnected, and we don’t care. As long as we have our television & Internet who really cares about anything else? Take those things away and there would be riots in the streets.
“Remember that Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid will be there to help you in retirement.” Maybe. But I saw your point.
Anyway, thanks for relaying the most important message out there: Make up your own mind.
If there’s anything I am sick of, it’s people telling me how to think, especially by use of their own opinion. Don’t proselytize. Just give me the damn facts. I’d argue that that is why we’re all so apathetic. There is too much to wade through to reach the facts, so we all just give up and let other people deal with it.
I think we will still be able to depend on SS & Medicare/Aid in retirement, though the benefits may be significantly less or different than they are today. It’s not that these are necessarily bad programs, just grossly underfunded and borrowed against to finance other programs.