D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-E-!

While the Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats, and Fox News mislead the country about health care reform, the American people still face crisis. Many Americans are still being swallowed up by debt and job losses which effects so many peoples health insurance, they still wish to scare the hell out of us.

Using language like "socialism", "people are going to die" and "it costs too much" while American people suffer. The World Health Organization rates the United States 37th in health care. Number one is France, and also ahead of us is Canada, Italy, Sweden, and England among many others. The same countries that are criticized for their health care. As Paul Krugman notes in the New York Times, "One of the truly amazing and depressing things about the health reform debate is the persistence of fear-mongering over “socialized medicine”. What this creates is an unknown scare before the bill(s) are voted on.

At what point do we acknowledge the health of the American people before the health of big pharma and the insurance industry? The Government is already paying 47% of peoples medical bills vs the 35% paid by insurance companies. So the unknown, is not unknown.