Should You Care about the Health Care Debate If You Believe in the Law of Attraction?

As the health care debate drags on in the US, and with no end in sight, I was musing about this dilemma the other day as it relates to the Law of Attraction. Proponents of the traditional view of LOA would say that you put your attention on what you want, and you take your attention away from what you don't want -- simple as that. What does that mean for those of us who are watching this healthcare situation, though? Do we focus on this debate with the intent that the outcome we want happens (whatever that may be), or do we ignore it and simply focus on our own well-being?

I think it's a little bit of both. I do pay attention to the health care debate, because as one of those without insurance, I want affordable insurance to be available to me (and millions of others like me) so that if I should have need of health care services, I can get them without having to worry about ending up in the poor house. This represents the first real opportunity that we have had in this country to have just that.

On the other hand, I realize that as one single person, my thoughts on this are probably going to have relatively little impact on what happens in Washington; I can, however, join with like-minded people who believe in the Law of Attraction, positive thinking, whatever you may have, and who want health care insurance for all that will be fair and affordable. The power of positive thinking, especially combined, can always make great changes.

What's not going to be beneficial is ruminating over this endlessly, thinking that Washington is only a corrupt city and that nothing will ever change; certainly, there may be corrupt politicians within the system that need to be purged, but they'll eventually cycle out. If we believe in the Law of Attraction, then we know we brought this political system into reality throughout history, and similarly, if we want to change it, we can.

And another thing: Does that mean that those who DON'T want a public option for health insurance should be ignored? That's a good question, and the short answer to that is, yes. Here's why. Not only is it a good Law of Attraction practice to ignore what you can't change (in this case, public health-care opponents' opposition), but there's another really important point to ignoring what the opposition thinks.

That is, those people who don't want a public option probably already have really good health insurance (or haven't had health problems to the point they find out their insurance doesn't really cover them after all, in which case they'll probably join the ranks of those of us who want it). The public option is for those of us whom pay too much for the insurance we do have, or who can't get health insurance at all. Those folks who don't want a public health insurance option probably also don't need it, and therefore don't have to use it.