Self-interests will doom health care reform

It appears to me that the American system of special interest-driven politics, combined with the constant need for politicians to constantly raise huge gobs of donations with strings attached in order to get re-elected, has doomed workable health care reform.

The country is divided down the middle. Half of us think it is socialism to want to reform health insurance at all. The other half is bewildered by the fact that European democracies manage to provide a system of cradle-to-grave health care that works just fine, so why can't we?

People who are against reform talk about personal responsibility, but by that they mean “it's every man for himself. I've got mine - get your own.” Some of them even claim to be Christians, worshipping a man described in the Bible as a selfless and loving individual who gave his life for humanity, yet they react with anger at the idea that it is their responsibility to reach out and help lighten a fellow human's burden. They value their possessions more than people, and only care for themselves.

They are to be pitied.

Marilyn LaToree

Tipton