Obama Rush to Overhaul Healthcare Shows a Dangerous Deficit of Understanding
White House talking out both sides of its mouth in blind rush for healthcare reform
No wonder people want to keep what they have. Most Americans remember the days of exploratory surgery, X-rays instead of PET scans, and long hospital stays. They realize that we now have the world's best healthcare, vastly improved treatments for chronic illnesses, and progress toward cures for many diseases. Sure, insurance companies and claim forms drive everyone crazy. But the devil we know may not be as bad as the one we don't know.
When I hear about the government taking over a huge share of our economy by taking over healthcare, I think of the government office most people deal with most often: the post office. The U.S. Postal Service is a great example of a congressionally run "public plan" for delivery of services that people need. No thanks.
For many families, massively changing our healthcare system will affect their monthly budget and their children's healthcare choices for a long time. For our economy, healthcare reform is big money and big consequences for future generations, especially now that the administration will be revising the deficit projections upward. It's all just too much, too fast, and the stakes are too high. We can't afford another "misreading."
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Reader Comments
Right on...
Obama care is as scary as Obama Motors. Who would he fire first in the insurance world? He said the word profit in his news conference when discussing Insurance Company profits like it was a dirty word. Showing his real Socialist feathers wasn't he.
And when the first Cleveland Plain-Dealer ask his question Obama did the great soft-shoe sidestep of the night. I'm a retired government employee and Obama and Congress doesn't have my insurance plan. He never answered the question and in fact used a word to show he was telling this reporter he and Congress will never have the same coverage as everyone else in this country.
Nobody will have anything as good as the shysters in the White House and Congress.
healthcare -omigosh!
The healthcare costs are whooping!and add to that history of making it in 300 years.If one isn't callous about the calculations tripping over this isn't any item of ridicule but of pure surmise.Then one can gauge that however fast the pace of american life you can count on latest free will of adam smith to take you through as the common man would want to put it.Some solutions are therefore hard to find.I would refer the stats and come to the same conclusion.
Public Healthcare
Mary Kate, you are right on. We just turned 65 and have Medicare and a supplemental policy that seems to be accepted by everyone and pays every dime of our expenses. total cost is about $500/mo for both. In addition if you spend 5 minutes looking at how other countries with less effective health-care solutions pay for insuring the so called 40 million uninsured they ration it. Uninsured can get just a good care now going to an emergency room. In short its a scary proposition which is best financed with a value added tax on everyone and everything such as Canada, and without levying divisive taxes on anyone making good with their lives or careers.
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