Health Care Reform

The U.S. health care reform effort is just plain frustrating. It's obvious that fixing our system would benefit just about everyone (except perhaps insurance companies.) The profit margin for insurers is ridiculous and ludicrous. Without the extra cost of these administrative (and Wall Street investor) profits, we'd have a system that could serve more people at lesser cost. 



I'm completely dissatisfied with our obstructionist Senate. The filibuster has turned it into a body about as effective as the California legislature in passing a budget. A super-majority should only be required for constitutional level legislation, otherwise it is a tool for obstruction and an enemy of democracy. Obstructionists should be seen and called out for what they are: enemies of progress and democracy. 



If the filibuster issue can't be fixed, the American people may never get any sort of reform at all: financial, health, entitlement, etc. Democracy is about majorities, not super-majorities. We witness our system coerced with increasing frequency, and we know that it is not democratic. This is how democracy dies. Our Senate should end the filibuster and start working for the American people (that's their job after all) by passing important legislation and moving the country forward.