Any honest person knows that something MUST be done with healthcare in the US. I don't buy the Republican talking point that most people are happy with their healthcare! Small business owners (the backbone of our economy) aren't, the uninsured aren't, the poor is not, anyone with a HMO is NOT, the middle class is not, the sick do NOT etc. I am firmly in the middle class and mostly associate with people in the middle and upper class, pretty much NO ONE is in love with their healthcare like the right makes them out to be! But I digress!
Republicans NOW state that healthcare needs to be reformed, but with there model type. More private competition, tort reform etc.! However, I don't buy it! Why you ask? Because they did DICK for 6 long years when they firmly had the House, Senate, Presidency and Supreme Court! Nothing happened but STATUS QUO! But now as Obama is trying to get reform through that will offer a public option, they are now taking up the cause of reform! My questions to them, where the hell where you the 6 yrs when you had Congress and the Presidency? Sorry if I don't believe your cause now!
See here is what is lost on the debate! The vast majority of Americans want and need healthcare reform, but now that reform is coming, scare tactics are used to rally the gullible against it!
Extremes are bad on both ends. If we spend uncontrollably, if we let government get to big then WE FAILED, but if we go too much the libertarian way and do nothing, then we FAIL also. Government has its place and for me I believe its in healthcare!
