The great Washington Post reported Friday that the Democrats may take the shortcut in passing health care reform. Without Republicans!As a registered voter, USAF veteran and graduate student at ETSU, I say, do it! Pass it, with the public option and pass it now.

American’s can’t wait any longer. I say do what the Republicans did under their boy Bush and use the reconciliation process that they used over 22 times when they were in charge to pass Bush’s agenda. And the tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent that didn’t need it, and were all too glad to get it.

The Republicans used reconciliation process to ram through their disastrous agenda that lost America 8.5 million jobs. It left all Americans a record debt of $1.5 trillion dollars, and then left office with the lowest job approval rating in the history of the United States presidency at 20 percent.

Now the Republicans are crying foul that the Democrats might do the same thing for the American people, and I hope Democrats do, and I hope they hurry.

You see, folks, Americans are dying everyday because they lack health insurance, and when you look at the record and facts your see why Republicans are opposed to you having what they have.

They have the best government health care/insurance your tax dollars can buy they just don’t want you to have it.

In conclusion, I hope the Democrats pour it on, use the reconciliation process which is really majority rule that is 51 votes as the Republicans did, and pass universal health care with the public option.

The majority of Americans want health care reform as the Pew poll found Americans are in favor of it.

I hope all Americans can see that in the richiest country in the world we can insure all Americans.

If America can give more money to corporate wellfare than all the social programs combined, don’t you think we can insure all American’s, who should come first over corporate welfare in the richest country in the world?

– Tommy Birchfield

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