If you hate the same and hate change, you just hate...

I'm confused by the whole health care debate. Which is hard to do, considering I've spent a considerable amount of energy trying to avoid it. Don't get me wrong--it's not that I'm confused about it, or have no opinion. We NEED universal health care, and it's disgusting that we don't have it. I guess if you really want to be compared to Ghana, the U.S. is doing the right thing, but I was under the impression that this wasn't a third-world country.

What confuses me most about the Republican reaction is that their worst fear--one that isn't based in reality, like all of their ideas--is that they are most afraid that the federal government is going to decide who lives and who dies by denying or approving coverage. Which, unless I have an incorrect grasp on common sense, is exactly what the private health insurance companies do now.

As anyone knows, insurance companies have specific workers who are paid to find ANY reason to deny a claim. The conservative fear is that the government will do...that. So their big fear is that we will have a similar system to what we have now, the one they are going crazy trying to defend? Or is it that they feel like the government workers are Satanic and all health care CEO's are Mother Theresa? That's backed up by reality, sure....

Is that really what people think? I know conservatives don't have a grasp on reality, but that seems to be what I understand of it.