Monday's rant

I did the usual Monday stuff. Bridge was either feast or famine. I had three rounds with totals over 1000 points, and three with them down around 200. In two of those "bad" rounds, the opponents had over 2500 points. No fun at all.

And now my rant...

The invective and hatred that is growing against any kind of health care reform is really getting pretty scary. It's hard to believe that these people are not only telling these insane lies about death squads and euthanasia, etc., but that people seem to be believing this stuff. It would be almost idiotic and comical if it weren't so scary. How can somebody actually say that the "government is going to ration health care"? It has been obvious to anyone who has had to deal with it that it is the insurance companies which are rationing health care. They're the ones who deny treatment based on decisions made by insurance company workers. They're the ones who drop people from coverage when catastrophic illness occurs. They're the ones who refuse to insure people for pre-existing conditions. And they've been doing it for years. And we've let them do it.

Guess I need to stop watching TV and reading the newspaper. Right - like that's going to happen.