There is an easy workable solution to the costs of healthcare: easy, workable even cheap but unfortunately politically unacceptable. A solution that we can all – repeat all – support, except our so-called Representatives in Congress.
At a campaign rally in 1979, Ronald Reagan quipped that we could easily improve the speed and efficiency of the postal service. “Just pay the postal workers by mail.” Think about using the same principle for healthcare.
If this is a country ruled by laws not individuals, shouldn’t the laws, rules, and regulations apply equally to all Americans? I certainly hope that was a rhetorical question. So…if they apply to everyone, what about people in Congress?
Using President’s Reagan’s ‘pay by mail” idea, what if you and I had the same healthcare system as people in Congress? Come to think of it, why limit the concept to healthcare?
What about a Constitutional Amendment that said all laws, rules and regulations apply equally to Congresspeople as to the populace? No exceptions. I mean it: NO EXCEPTIONS.
I would think liberals of all degrees as well as conservatives of all stripes would support this idea. After all, the former believe in equality and social justice while the latter emphasize the rule of law. Well, what if we combined the two?
I can just hear the cynics saying that Congress will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever [If you haven’t seen the movie Martian Child, rent it] let this happen. To me, this just brings out in the open the fact that our Representatives do not represent us.
Whether you are to the left of Mao Tse-tung or to the right of Attila the Hun, you want your representative to represent you and your point of view. I believe there is one assertion on which the majority of Americans, of all political, social or religious persuasions, can agree: they represent only themselves and not us. As my wife says, they have only one job (according to them): to get re-elected. Well, time for us to change that. We really do have the power. Let’s use it.
There are, believe it or not, 33 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Twenty-seven were passed and six have not been. I urge a national movement to demand a 34 th Amendment with only 22 words.
34 th Amendment: “All rules that apply to any U.S. resident apply equally – without exceptions or qualifications – to all persons elected to public office.”
The Founding Fathers did not write such an Amendment in the Bill of Rights. It would never have occurred to them that the rules would NOT apply to people in Congress.
As a doctor for healthcare, I would welcome this Amendment. It would CURE our sick system.
System MD
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There is an easy workable solution to the costs of healthcare: easy, workable even cheap but unfortunately politically unacceptable. A solution that we can all – repeat all – support, except our so-called Representatives in Congress.
At a campaign rally in 1979, Ronald Reagan quipped that we could easily improve the speed and efficiency of the postal service. “Just pay the postal workers by mail.” Think about using the same principle for healthcare.
If this is a country ruled by laws not individuals, shouldn’t the laws, rules, and regulations apply equally to all Americans? I certainly hope that was a rhetorical question. So…if they apply to everyone, what about people in Congress?
Using President’s Reagan’s ‘pay by mail” idea, what if you and I had the same healthcare system as people in Congress? Come to think of it, why limit the concept to healthcare?
What about a Constitutional Amendment that said all laws, rules and regulations apply equally to Congresspeople as to the populace? No exceptions. I mean it: NO EXCEPTIONS.
I would think liberals of all degrees as well as conservatives of all stripes would support this idea. After all, the former believe in equality and social justice while the latter emphasize the rule of law. Well, what if we combined the two?
I can just hear the cynics saying that Congress will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever [If you haven’t seen the movie Martian Child, rent it] let this happen. To me, this just brings out in the open the fact that our Representatives do not represent us.
Whether you are to the left of Mao Tse-tung or to the right of Attila the Hun, you want your representative to represent you and your point of view. I believe there is one assertion on which the majority of Americans, of all political, social or religious persuasions, can agree: they represent only themselves and not us. As my wife says, they have only one job (according to them): to get re-elected. Well, time for us to change that. We really do have the power. Let’s use it.
There are, believe it or not, 33 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Twenty-seven were passed and six have not been. I urge a national movement to demand a 34 th Amendment with only 22 words.
34 th Amendment: “All rules that apply to any U.S. resident apply equally – without exceptions or qualifications – to all persons elected to public office.”
The Founding Fathers did not write such an Amendment in the Bill of Rights. It would never have occurred to them that the rules would NOT apply to people in Congress.
As a doctor for healthcare, I would welcome this Amendment. It would CURE our sick system.
System MD