I felt compelled to respond to an email sent to me on the healthcare reform issue! Here follows my response...

My fellow countryman,

I understood this message thread to be about family law reform, not a forum for spreading more ignorance or to act as a lobbying forum for defending the injustice of our Health care system. FEAR through IGNORANCE is unfortunately what is being used to challenge Pres. Obama’s Healthcare reform initiatives. Have you ever wondered who is behind this misinformation movement and why?

Do intelligent free thinking people really come out on their own free will to disrupt intelligent debate at our local town halls and fight for their right to maintain a system of healthcare in which their health care will be refused them if they have a pre-existing condition; a system where accountants routinely turn down treatment that is needed because of cost. Are intelligent people really standing in the streets and demanding their right to be bankrupted if they can’t pay a medical bill (the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US)! Are intelligent people really demanding their right to pay $2000 a month for drugs that cost $25.00 that they can’t afford so their health care CEO’s can keep making $20M a year! Do we really believe that there are WMD out there again and that Iraq was responsible for 911! How many times will people let themselves be led so the powerful can steal more from them! Are our fellow citizens really going to town hall meetings and demanding our right to have our health care industry continue to screw every breathing American until we and this country are completely bankrupt. Are people really standing in the streets passionately arguing against government run health care when they have a Medicaid / Medicare card stuffed in their wallet or purse - programs that have been serving these same people better than most private schemes serve the rest of us and for much less than any private scheme could do so!

Healthcare should not only be available to the privileged but should be a RIGHT for all American Citizens. High quality of Medical Technology could be combined with great and affordable healthcare for all in the U.S.A. like it is in for nearly ALL 1^st world nations. I frankly do not believe America can be considered a 1^st world country until it provides every American with affordable health care! Should 1^st world nations let their people die because they can’t afford a drug or an operation.

Many paid off politicians and lobbyists (dare I say, mostly Republicans) are making stupid, inaccurate and uninformed statements about what is being proposed and spreading lies about other successful healthcare systems around the planet as if some Socialist bogeyman conspiracy is being planned. When I see messages like this one below I am reminded of how so many people like to be led and whipped up in to a frenzy and told what to think by those that wish to continue stealing from them and manipulate them, as so many were blindly led to go to war based on lies as is chillingly demonstrated in the movie: ‘Why we fight: ” http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9219858826421983682 Now the same kinds of greed and self serving interests that led our people in to some of our darkest hours are at work again in this debate and it looks like many in this country would rather be told what to think than go and check out the facts for themselves from credible sources! People - please check your facts before spreading the agenda of those that wish to maintain their profits and monopoly on healthcare and continue screwing us all over!

on healthcare reform from the AARP!

Respectfully,

Paul Coppock,

Father, San Francisco, CA

www.carinaandpierce.com

Shared parenting is a moral right and a supreme right under the 14^th amendment!

PS: I fear John missed the point of what he was reacting to. In my humble opinion, the intention of the communication was to encourage lists of disinformation (not lists of the dis-informers) to be communicated so that list of topics could be created – and countered - like the AARP, CNN, NYT have all done to accurately verify or discount the disinformation being circulated at this time by the lobbying machines and paid off politicians. And on the topic of a single payer healthcare plan – that would be the lowest cost option for this country in my opinion as COOPs have demonstrated already – it’s a shame that the lobbyists will likely tank this idea from being considered because this scheme will really challenge the healthcare and drug companies.

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“The more you dig the more you learn that this is a carefully orchestrated effort by special interest lobbyists and the Republican Party, who are using fringe elements on the right to protect insurance company profits and defeat health care reform,” said House Dem leadership aide Doug Thornell. “The anger at these events looks very similar to what we saw at McCain/Palin rallies in the fall.”