Yesterday's paper published an article about Sen. Reid's presentation of the health care bill. I have not looked up the actual bill yet, but am feeling encouraged that it seems to include a public option. Clearly, there will be much discussion and debate about the bill, and it will probably be much amended before all this is over. I am reminded that there is an old saying that observing how some things are made is a rather ugly process. Years ago, someone told me that watching laws get made is like watching the production of sausage - a messy, ugly business!
I pray that the citizens of this country will continue to let their congresspeople know that they want a health care bill that preserves a public option, that reduces the burdens on ordinary working people, that provides standards that protect ordinary people from loss of health insurance, and thus, often, any health care. I pray that we all begin to see health care as like food, clothing, shelter, clean air and water, a human right. After all, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, way back in 1948, the United Nations declared in Article 25 that:
* (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
May it be so! AMEN.
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