Health Care Reform in a Coma?
Posted By Mark on January 26, 2010
I haven’t posted for a while. After last weeks fairy tale win by Scott Brown in MA I didn’t know what to say. I was ready to party like I was at a frat toga party. All right, I did and was unable to read the words on my monitor for 36 hours, but after that I really don’t know what to say.
It seems clear to me, that the democrats need to back away from the “comprehensive health reform” they have been trumpeting for the last year or they may lose their majorities in congress and the senate. However, there are stories here and there of reconciliation, back room deals for the house to pass the senate health reform bill with promises to revise later to pacify more moderate democrats and there are still cries from the far left of “bag it all and start over with a single payor health care system”.
I do hope they make the wrong decision … or at least no decision at all. If democrats and Obama back away from health care for a while, business might kick in thinking it will be OK to hire people and they won’t be fined for not providing health insurance. The real problem is that nobody knows right now if the senate health reform bill is in a coma or if its dead.
From my perspective, here’s hoping the plan is unplugged and slips away without any further struggle
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Why Do we have to pay for medical insurance? I think, that government and medical insurance companies make money on people and fool them. And how about people, who can't pay for insurance?
Why do we pay for insurance? Because that is how goods and services work. Those folks who provide health care services (doctors, nurses, hospitals etc) do not do it for charity in most cases and require payment.
Nothing is for free.