We desperately need better health care  in the US.  As a queer woman with a chronic illness, it’s a very personal issue for me. Reforming health care in the US is complex and faces a lot of opposition from people concerned about personal freedom and insurance companies worried about profits.  I certainly didn’t expect health care reform to be easy.

But what I didn’t expect (naively), was the nature of the debate.  Many people aren’t interested at all in facts. They’re violent and more than a little crazy and don’t seem to recognize at all that they’re being manipulated.

We should be having a very vigorous debate about health care and working hard for a better system that serves more people more efficiently.  Instead, we’re seeing people go completely unhinged and screaming about how health care reform is really a plan to kill old people.  Too bad so few people seem to have actually read the bill…