Who says the Democrats haven’t moved public opinion in the health care debate? According to a new Rasmussen poll out today, they have steadily persuaded more and more Americans that the health care system we have is a good one.We have the best health care system in the world and everyone has access to it. Some people don't have insurance to cover it and they are often referred to as "not having health care", but that's a myth.Forty-nine percent (49%) of voters nationwide now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent. That marks a steady increase from 44% at the beginning of October, 35% in May and 29% a year-and-a-half ago.This surely isn’t how the Democrats want to see public opinion moving, but it’s how they have been moving it. By comparison with the system envisioned in the House and Senate health care bills, our current system certainly does look excellent.
If the lack of insurance by a relatively small part of the population is the problem, that can be fixed fairly easily and for much less money than what the Democrats are proposing. From Charles Krauthammer:
Insuring the uninsured is a moral imperative. The problem is that the Democrats have chosen the worst possible method — a $1 trillion new entitlement of stupefying arbitrariness and inefficiency.It's time to start over. The bills in the House and Senate need to die a painful death so Democrats will learn not to try that again. You'd have thought they'd have learned after HillaryCare and the '94 electoral beat down, but apparently they have short attention spans.
The better choice is targeted measures that attack the inefficiencies of the current system one by one — tort reform, interstate purchasing. and taxing employee benefits. It would take 20 pages to write such a bill, not 2,000 — and provide the funds to cover the uninsured without wrecking both U.S. health care and the U.S. Treasury.
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I was agreeing with Krauthammer until he got to the "tax employee benefits" part. Is he advocating taxing benefits? If so, how is that helpful to us working stiffs?
The issue here is not only Health Care but also Liberty and Freedom.
In regard to the actual health care aspect, the market will provide a good service if allowed to operate, especially if it is actually competitive, and I don't mean competitive with my tax dollars as a subsidy for any of the players. Current government regulation of competition is part of the problem. The Tort system as applied to medical malpractice is also a problem. Creating a totalitarian-type government takeover of healthcare is not the answer.
I don't think the general public will ever be satisfied with the forced health insurance plan that the democrats are trying to force upon us until congress and the president are "forced" to give up their cushy insurance and be included under the same health insurance plan that John Q public has. Congress and the president also should be "forced" to give up their lifetime payroll setup and be placed under social security just like the rest of the working stiff's have. How many of us get our regular salary for a lifetime after we terminate our employment, especially if we only work 6 or 8 years.
Moreover if Obamacare does for the uninsured what the war on poverty did for the poor ....
Well, for morality's sake and for the sake of common human decency Obamacare needs to be stopped. Haven't the uninsured got it bad enough?
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