Public Option, No Public Option. Single payer, Partially subsidized private system, tax credits for uninsured.
All of the options being discussed for Health Care Reform are a bad idea. Not the idea of reform of health care. Just Health Care Reform.
Sounds like an oxymoron doesn't it?
But the issue is who will make the changes in a system which isn't broken, but which has been increasingly regulated by governmental decree. Changes which have occurred not by legislation, and not by act of Congress, in most cases.
But by bureaucrats in offices in Washington D.C. and every state capitol. Bureaucrats who know nothing or nearly nothing about medicine, but are able to crunch numbers.
Bureaucrats who are forced to listen to the legislatures of their respective states who clamor for "changes" to a system which I still contend is not broken.
Changes to create more inclusive coverage for children, (who can disagree with that?) while not mentioning that many of the children being covered are either illegal alien children or 'anchor babies', who are now by effect of an ill conceived law, legal American citizens.
The issue which every single politician has missed in the debate over Health Care Reform is this:
CONgress will create the law to be carried out by uninformed bureaucrats who will have the ability, as bureaucrats, to alter the legislation as they wish, to meet the mandates (ever changing) of the federal and state legislatures.
The legislation of Health Care Reform, once in place will never shrink, and never go away.
The creation of the Health Care Reform Pandora's Box will take on a life of its own at the Federal, State and local levels.
Control of all programs is ultimately at the mercy of the bureaucrats who administer the program, whether the Post Office, the Veterans Administration, Social InSecurity, or any other well meaning program designed to 'assist' a segment of society at the cost of taxing another segment of society to pay for it.
The bureaucracy which will be created to cover a segment of American business which is one sixth of the American Economy will dwarf by several orders of magnitude, every other program and effort this nation has ever created.
Handing over the reins of one sixth of the American economy to legions of bureaucrats is the easiest, and fastest way I can think of to stifle the economic engine which is at this point stuttering under the weight of massive Federal debt and debt service (interest).
This nation simply can't afford to give the type and scope of power to small people in small offices the control of it's lifeblood, which is the business of doing business.
This isn't rocket science, it's just plain common sense to some of us. And that is why it hasn't been considered by the denizens of the Washington Beltway.
Any problem worthy of notice by a politician is worthy of a highly complicated, very expensive, and inane 'solution'
The conservative wannabe's in CONgress who profess to be conservatives are arguing about the merits of various aspects of Health Care Reform, but none of them want to address the concept of Tort Reform in a meaningful fashion. Some are paying lip service to the idea, knowing it has no chance what so ever of going into a piece of legislation. But the lip service does look good at the next election cycle. And election cycles seem to have taken on a life of their own now.
The never ending election cycle is a reality when the process of fund raising is considered to be an ongoing duty of every legislator.
We need Reform, but what really needs reform is government. We need that big RESET button Hillary Clinton kept wanting to use when she was still in the hunt for the White House.
We need to fully and completely reset the process of government as soon as possible to avert the disaster of the dissolution of this nation.