The TV talking heads across the nation are shaking with excitement;
HHS #Selelius resigns. #Rachael Maddow explained it best when she explained
that was shocked that such a thing could happen, in her words, “the White house is snatching defeat out of
the jaws of victory.” She is sure the right wing will attack mercilessly,
as they are prone to do, to anything—and I mean anything—that occurs in #President
Obama’s administration but especially to the hated Obamacare. She is right;
they will attack; it will just take a few days for the hate machine to gear up
because they have not been able to wound her; there is no blood in the water so
they have to create some—that takes time.
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was responsible for planting
the flag on top of the huge, out of control health care problem in the Untied States
of America. I look at what she did as heroic and deserving of the respect of
all Americans. Our congress created a policy to solve a festering problem
created by the free market system in what we claim is the most advanced society
in the world. Capitalism is great and an absolute requirement for countries to excel.
What is great in our nation is that we recognize that there are things that the
people must do without an uncontrolled profit motive: educations, national
defense, prisons, and among other things, healthcare. Congress compromised and
allowed the government to control the healthcare market by insurance reform; the
best way would have been a direct-payer system; however, that wasn’t to be. Once
Congress formed the policy, the president turned the responsibility for implementing
it was turned over the Sebelius.
Congratulations Kathleen Sebelius! You did it. She charged up
the side of that mountain and planted the American flag on top where is will
proudly wave for along long time. What she did made me think of mount Seribachi
on Iwo Jima. She did not do it alone; she had a group of supports; a team. Caves
and “Fox” holes covered the mountainside filled with people who were willing to
die, and let others die, rather than see the government interfere in private enterprise.
In 1945, when Iwo Jima happened, a terrible controversy surrounded
the raising of that flag and over the years it was replace time after time but
it was still there. When I was there in 1953, eight years later, I could not
see the flag from my ship but I knew it had been there even if I could not see
it; actually, the flag is no longer there. Japan took control over the island
in 1968. What was there will remain in the hearts and minds of the American people.
Nothing can change that because it was the right thing to do. Thank you Congress for the policy and thank
you President Obama for caring for the “all” of the American people but
especially think you Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; you are truly a veteran of a
hard fought but on going war.
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