I haven't written in quite a while. The health-care debates are essentially over, and a bill has been passed. The voices of the insurance companies and the vocal minority have won again. Real health-care reform has not occurred. President Obama has shown that he leans towards both socialism in his bailouts of the "too big to fail" corporations, and capitalists in the lack of real health-care reform (notice I didn't say Democrats and Republicans). In both cases, though, it is the taxpayers who suffer.

The President and Congress missed the opportunity to really make a change in the state of health-care in our country. The debate was upon us. It was active and alive in the minds of U.S. citizens. It was the chance to take time to look at real alternatives to the health-care mode we have had in this country for too long. Of course the health-care industry had to have their say. This is a true industry with many components from the doctors and nurses who work with the public to the administrators of health-care systems, to the insurance companies that under-insure us. Removing that system and replacing it with a government plan would be impractical and costly to business and share-holders alike. Corporate America could not take that hit in the current economic market.

I fall back to my previous thought that for socialized medicine to take hold in this country the government has to prove they can do it better. This is the only way to convert the general populace. It has to be beneficial to the individual and to society. Until that time, we remain in the corporate dominated mode of health-care we currently have. People will continue to go untreated for their illnesses. People will continue to be over-charged. People will continue to lose their life investments, their homes, their personal property. We will get it figured out some time but that time is not now.