Every time I read yet another letter from Dr. Morris, I view, in total exasperation, a pattern of expression that is constantly repeated.
First, we hear his appraisal of himself as this superior being who came from a wonderful family who managed, against all obstacles, to succeed, and who is now revived in his maturity by taking up the cause of righting all the ills he sees about him.
First, he has learned from a certain group of physicians, why Obamacare is an abomination. I wonder if he has ever asked them if they believed that the conservatism of the American Medical Association eventually caused them to lose respect.
Today, many veteran altruistic physicians want to change the way health care is provided in this country and most younger colleagues have come to understand that providing care to all has to be implemented.
Obamacare, with all its difficulties, was passed only because the president had to compromise to make it possible to pass any bill. Big Pharma and the profit-making private health insurers spent many millions on lobbying the Congress. This is just one example of what big money is doing to distort the best of planning.
Why do you suppose that 37 or more attempts to repeal Obamacare have not passed. Despite the best efforts to end it, Congress, in its fear of the public, cannot get it done. Don’t they have anything more urgent to attend to? As it reaches full implementation, savings are already seen.
On another subject, Dr. Morris constantly blames every one in sight. The Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizen’s United case declared that corporations are people and therefore have the freedom to spend billions to influence our representatives and propagate outrageous untruths repeatedly in the media. This opened the floodgates for the creation of 501(C4) organizations to apply for tax exempt status.
The IRS was overwhelmed by the number of applications, without having been given guidelines by the Congress that would have made it possible to define necessary criteria for decision making.
Of course most of the applications were from tea party organizations.
Admittedly, mistakes were made in the procedures. Were crimes committed? Without investigations, nothing can yet be concluded. And without a thorough process, much of what Dr. Morris alleges is unproven, but the facts are seldom a problem for him.
The impending destruction of our way of life is an overwhelming prediction in his letters. What truly distresses me is the thinking patterns.
He never entertains the possibility that money is endangering our democracy. And of course, the vast income disparities in income do not ever get his attention. And does he ever consider that when our economy is in crisis, we should be spending money on so many worthwhile programs that would increase employment?
And what does he think will save us in our competition with other nations if we neglect educations for everybody? And if people have low salaries or lose unemployment benefits who will buy the goods that our industries make?
Need I add that compassion seems never to raise its head? And has anybody noticed that tea party Congress people do not understand the meaning of the word compromise? Is their knowledge of history so limited that they do not remember that enormous compromises by the members of the Continental Congress created the Constitution?
Esther Confino
New Hyde Park
