OK, I hear the talk about “lets kill the Affordable Care Act. Then the Democrats will run to us and beg us for our terrible bill.
We all know this will not work. We know that if the President and The House leader and the Senate leader would rather have people who can not afford health care die a natural death because they can vote to keep THEIR healthcare and we can fend for ourselves. They want to Repeal and start over again and accept their McConnell bill which was the worst bill ever put before congress as far as I can tell. Then they claim that the Demcrats have not ideas and that dem Democrats won’t work with us and are only obstructing
We also know that the chances of McConnell and/or Ryan will bring anything to the floor that would allow open discussion as to what to do is about the same as Trump coming out and telling the truth about anything. So what to do?
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I think I have an answer as to how we can get OUR views ON THE TABLE!
We have all this momentum behind us with the town meetings and all the worke we have done to get the attention of at least some legislatures. We need more. HERE IS WHAT WE CAN DO!
MSNBC CNN and any other news organization can help us to solve the problem We can have our own open and public debates with our congressmen participating in something that our President himself can get behind.
We need a reality program on TV. The premise is simple.
THE PEOPLES OPEN DEBATE ON WHAT TO DO!
PREMIS: We invite all legislators and we put them in a room and let them discuss their various opinions. Together and we make it a series just like the rest of the reality shows with groups that are forced to interact with each other.
If congress won’t have open discussions on health care we invite the congressmen and senators to participate in a public discussion with a congressional debate format where all representatives are invited to come and give their solutions to how we can fix the health care system we have in America.
We can have rules. Fact checking about submissions will be made. Keeping to the topic must be adhered . Committees and subcommittees can be formed and when a group has some suggestions, they can be vetted and presented to the floor for discussions. Debates are mandatory and all will have their say.
The People could also have their ideas submitted to various committees for consideration as weil as health care providers, hospitals, Governors Pharmaceutical companies, and anyone that has a stake in the topic will have input if their ideas are verifiable and make sense. Its better to err on letting everyone to have their say but remember, facts must be factual. Repeated lies can disqualify participants but ALL legitimate and legal views should be accepted. We should not let anyone out.
This takes FAKE news out of the picture as it would be live and open discussions and all political parties that have a viable solution would get to have input. The goal would be to come up with things that all factions believe would be a viable solution. THEN we can see what we are talking about.
Of course this will not make any official LAWS but it will provide an open, verifiable presentations of what needs to be done to make our health care work and it will have all factions available to share their views.
If some do not want to participate, their lack of concern will be obvious by their lack of participation. If they participate we will get to see what they are in favor of and what they will not support. This could be a revolutionary approach to cleaning up all the lobbying and outside interests that are going on behind closed doors in our congress today.
There would be no lying about who has ideas and who do not have ideas. A volunteer discussion by lawmakers in an open and impartial setting. A place for the legislatures to openly express their views of what they believe will work and what will not and we can judge them without the Closed Doors that many of them have hidden behind before.
I submit this idea to Kos and everyone that if we want open and honest discussion on finding a solution, we need to do it ourselves. This could be the ultimate Reality Show on how out legislatures actually do their jobs when we, the people are watching and have and will know what they are up to. There would not be lying about who is in or who is out. We can decide for ourselves what needs to be done.
BUT we need the news media to provide the air time and to moderate it. All the politicians want air time, we want to see them live and in a discussion “on the open floor” to express their ideas. No one can then say either side does not want to participate. Every congressman has an opportunity to join the discussion and the discussions will be between them with information being presented live by the other parties as to how it will affect their own stake in the process of providing health care IN PUBLIC and not with their “wish list” in one hand and their “check” in the other.
I listed Cable news networks because they have a 24hour format to allow better schedueling but CSPAN would be great if the current politicos in charge will allow free speech and Face book and Twitter coverage or any other free and accessible media would certainly be welcomed.
NO ONE should be able to shut down any discussions in a free and open discussion.
We have the power! We need to use it! If FAKE NEWS can use social media to spread its message WE can also use it to SPREAD THE TRUTH and since its an open discussion under full live scrutiny, it should be very interesting. MUCH more interesting than a cast of actors pretending to be in conflict with each other that flood the airways today.
We can do this! Look at what power we have had with town meetings and protests to get attention to the needs of the people.
Politicians use social media to spread their SPIN and in some cases OUTRIGHT LIES> WE can use it to SPREAD THE TRUTH and to get some ideas of HOW we can actually fix this thing and get the most people health insurance with minimum cost and maximum benefits to ALL Americans. This is our chance to REALLY take out country back and to put true and open debate on the issues of the day!
What do you think?
LeZi