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Imagine If The Health Care Reform Actually Was
Considering all the rhetoric on both sides, you would think that the health care reform bill was something more than a band aid on the lacerated jugular that is our health system. Yet even this has caused a quasar in a teapot. That reflects more on our current state than any actual details of legislation, and should give us all pause.
Update: As usual, John Cole pithily cuts to the chase. Oddly Enough, Not Hanging Effigies Creates Better Outcomes.
5 Responses to “Imagine If The Health Care Reform Actually Was”
I think we need to know alot mosre of what's in the bill before we can make a logical chose. I am afraid since the left is so sent against us knowing what is going on. We need more discussion on the whole bill. Read it before we vote on it.
All proposals are expressed in detail and easy to read language and there is tons of analysis, e.g. like what I've written. Information isn't the limiting factor…
I think the bill will be revised and changed, and the “Blue Dogs” appear very much up to the task. On the other hand, Don't comments above about “the left” reek of the kind of knee-jerk reactionary alarmism that is undermines civil discourse. Of course we should read the bill, but it's also fair to ask whether someone like Palin on the right read it too. Judging from her comments, I rather doubt it.
We have a non-system. There is nothing systematic about how health care is handled in the U.S. The only way it can be fixed is if the insurance model is abandoned for all but the most extremely expensive catastrophes such as cancer, debilitating chronic diseases or bad accidents.
It's not a question of her not reading it, it's a question of her turning a couple of minor modifications about “end of life counseling” (which has been around since forever and are focused on personal wishes being met) into “death panels.” That's not from lack of reading. Or that there will be government price controls, and other silliness, again is not from a lack of reading comprehension.
People on the right complained that the left was hyperventilating when Bush had executive orders or OLC advisement that he could detain anyone for an indefinite amount of time without charge, illegal wiretapping etc…except that's what it actually said! Their reasoning was that people were freaking out for no reason.
Yet here it doesn't say that at all and they're just “reading” (manipulating people with) sinister motives into everything.
Similarly, supporters of the bill keep talking about how many uninsured there are, and how we have to do something. Um OK, according to the CBO the only provision in the bill that actually will cover more people is expanding Medicaid…which could be done without everything else. They claim that the rest won't help curb costs and is just a handout to keep people from rioting in the streets for real reform. OK the rioting part is my interpretation…