More On Healthcare Reform
It seems that Socialist Democrats are cutting away what many of them consider to be key components of the Healthcare reform bill in order to make it more acceptable. One of the components is universal coverage. In the past they have stated the goal of covering some 47 million uninsured individuals under a public option. Today, I’ve read that they are considering cutting the public option and instead funding a private option that will cover 10 Million to 12 Million people. While this still unpalatable to conservatives, or at least to me, it is better than a full blown socialist public option. Another key component that they seem to be abandoning is the “single payer option” where the government pays for everyone’s healthcare, including illegal aliens.
As I’ve been reading other blogs, including liberal blogs, removing the single payer and public options appears to be a point of contention. The liberals want single payer healthcare or at least a public option. A couple of good examples are on the pnhp.org blog, and on the pdamerica blog.
In related healthcare news, during his speech at a National Press Club luncheon, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), questioned the point of lawmakers reading the health care bill. “I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Conyers. “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”
This is just another example of the disdain members of Congress, both parties included, have for their actual job. I find it amazing that Nancy Pelosi can announce that she has enough votes to pass a healthcare bill, when the bill is not even complete. That just goes to show that healthcare reform is more about passing a Socialist Democrat law than to actually pass something that will help instead of bankrupting the country. We can only hope that the bill does not pass before the summer recess and that members of congress are overwhelmed with the number of their constituents who do not like the idea of socialized medicine.
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About the Author: Bill is a 51 year old IT Professional who enjoys political blogging in his spare time after work and after the daily grind at the gym.
July 29th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Why does congress believe it is acceptable to write laws that are so complicated none can understand them?
Insurance companies had to move to simpler contracts, why not congress?
And why would anyone in congress vote for a law that they can’t understand?
Time for comon sense!