Health is a wise and desired thing, but it should not be a national entitlement. It should be run by the individual states, and maybe partially underwritten by the Fed. That is as far as I would be willing to fund. I mean, hell, planned parenthood is being funded by the fed, I suppose that some kind of men's health network could be funded also.
You are all over the map, Ma.
Why shouldn't basic health care be a part of the national general welfare?
It is not something that the federal government can do well enough to service the public. It will result in wasted billions of dollars and exploding insurance costs. I don't have a solution and even if I did I know myself well enough to know it would be just as bad as what the last guy did. Sometimes, the solution isn't socialism, or social justice, or even fairness. Sometimes you have to bite the lemon and accept the sour taste. Right now we have an opportunity to take away the sour taste of insurance premiums exploding through the roof. We a shot at actually have a do over. Maybe that do over results in doing nothing, maybe it results in solving the problem. The obvious problem, the 600 ton elephant in the room is that Obamacare is doomed.
Take the do over, live to fight another day, because when Obamacare goes belly up and it becomes a political hot potato, it will never be resurrected. It will go down as an object lesson of what happens when social engineering goes bad. If you want even a chance at saving something of what Obama lied about, it is time to make nice with the House Republicans who support the current bill. I say this because I know you will never do it and we will all watch as reporters tearfully deride the Republican Congress because they couldn't do anything to fix Obama's folly. It may, with any luck, be used as an object lesson of why not to trust Congress with your wealth and wellbeing.
I have been consistent since the first debate, you cannot add 10% of the population into an insurance system and think it will be OK. I remember people arguing that Obamacare would save people money, that it would decrease costs. Of course, those very people are arguing that Republicans should forgive and forget how badly Obamacare screwed the other 90% of the population, how we should be honored to be supporting the 10% who were being taken care of under the previous system.
Remember, it will cost you less and give you more? If you want to keep your existing plan you will be able to! You can keep your existing doctor also. Remember the bald faced lies? It wasn't aimed at the Republicans, it was aimed at the leftist liberals who would believe anything that Obama said because that way they wouldn't have think rational thoughts.
Let it die, and it will die with a whimper not a growl, the see if you can make a deal. That is call Playing Politics. That would be congress protecting 90% of the population from the largess that Congress has with other peoples money.
