Here is a novel idea.  Take from the entitlement TAX CUTS given to the rich and pay for the costs of basic health care for the multitude.  David Brooks has it right when he calls Hillary Clinton’s plan just revealed –“evolutionary”.  He contrasts, as she candidly does, that it is quite different from the complicated plan she was involved with when merely a First Lady. Now she is a presidential candidate standing for herself and many others who have been calling for a change for years.

Rarely has such an important move been made in an election time.  Instead of personalities or negative campaigning there is a solid subject on the table and it has immediately centered attention on vastly important problems affecting all Americans.  The issue is health care and if Hillary Clinton wants to talk about consensus to achieve it then it certainly is better than a revolutionary approach. She was careful, as Brooks pointed out, to avoid the red flag issue of dominance of government control.  I think that the backing of the Government is absolutely necessary as it is vitally important to be involved with the insurance industry.  Health and insurance are linked inextricably together and in a nation of 300,000,000 it is a foregone conclusion that independent contractors cannot be trusted to oversee the huge structure that will house the sick, the dying and those in need of repair – and much, much more important, the research and development of drugs and procedures to keep us healthy and living longer. Reminder: there are no private armies hired by the U.S. to fight the wars it has waded into.

My first reaction to any criticism of the costs for a national health program is: to hell with the costs.  All the people who have died because of lack of information about their problems, lack of fast intervention and lack of the latest tools to work with – these cry out for attention and that attention has been wasted on the rich who can pay for their own care costs.  We have been swindled by the politicians who have said to us that we do not understand.  We certainly do understand that our country is years behind the advances made by other industrialized modern nations who were made to think of their workers and the worker’s families if they wanted to compete in an international or global economy. Then, too, think of the “third world” poor countries and THEIR poor and sick.

The poor will always be with us but the poor who are sick or incapable of understanding how to work the system are left to die and no one cares.  A national health care system cares and those potential leaders or candidates for the next presidential election must care.  It will be educational to see who gets on board.

I think candidates who understand the fright tactics of a Rudy Giuliani about “Socialized Medicine” know they are wrong and will not work.  The time for a national Health plan is NOW.