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The hypocrisy of the controlling animus in the Christian Conservative movement has become all too apparent in recent months. That same hypocrisy pervades the positions of many of the Christian Conservatives on healthcare and medical reform. Many of the religious right, and their legislators, resist the call for universal health coverage, despite the christian motto forged by the Second Commandment, which sounds suspiciously like the Golden Rule"Do Unto Others."

Most of the right-wing politicians only want the type of healthcare reforms that strip rights from injured victims, not the reforms that increase access to good, affordable healthcare. The insurance companies have used the politicians to accomplish their goal-to save money when you are hurt or killed by the healthcare system. As the insurance lobbyists get their way more and more, healthcare consumers will be left holding the empty bag. They run the system. Funny thing about the whole system is that when people realize that they might become one of the 190,000 people killed each year by hospital errors, or the 1.5 million people injured each year by medication errors, then they start realizing that their positions don't work when applied to them personally. A recent study of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement found that there are 15 million incidents of harm to hospital patients every year in this country. That is one person harmed by hospital errors every two seconds!
People have supported new laws that reduce the rights of injured vicitms, because they have been duped into believing that lawsuits by injured patients increase the cost of healthcare and run good doctors away from their practices. This propaganda has been shown to be nothing more than myths created to scare patients into joining hands with the insurance companies in their efforts to limit patients' rights. Beware of the laws you support today, as you may well be the victim of them tomorrow! Michael Townes Watson, www.StopMedicalError.com.

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