I served my country proudly in the United States Navy for twenty years. I love my country. But I have become deeply ashamed and embarrassed by the selfish greedy bastards that have taken it over.

Our country has evolved since it's birth to keep pace with advances in technology, industry and morality. At our country's inception it was acceptable for one human being to own another. It took a gruesome war and a great many lives to finally end that injustice. It had already been outlawed in most of the world by then. Women only got the right to vote in this country in 1920. Again, most civilized nations of the world were ahead of us.

Now we are debating health insurance reform. The debate should be about the best way to provide health care to our citizens. Our current “system” of employer provided health insurance began during World War II, when there were labor shortages and wage freezes. Defense contractors discovered they could provide health care benefits to attract and keep workers.

Every corporation exists to make a profit. That includes insurance companies. Can someone explain how is it morally acceptable to make a profit off sick people? I have traveled our planet extensively and have seen that the rest of the industrial world (and even many “third world countries”) are capable of providing the necessities to keep its citizens healthy. Is our great country not capable of doing the same? We should be setting an example for the rest of the world. Are we NOT our brothers keeper?

I simply do not understand how people who claim the moral high ground can be against taking the obscene profits out of healthcare. If you took the money that insurance companies call profit, and the savings that providers could realize by not having the administrative overhead of dealing with them, there would be more than enough to extend health care to all our citizens.

Unfortunately we have the best government that money can buy. There are far too few honest politicians for there to be any true health care reform this time. All of the bills/proposals being discussed in congress right now are so hopelessly complicated that the end result will just help the bottom line of the insurance companies at the expense of us taxpayers. I'm sorry but I just can't believe in this change. Maybe next time...