Priorities
President Obama is gearing up to push his health care initiative through Congress. He used his Saturday radio address to cover the topic, and then spoke about it to the American Medical Association on Monday.
This would be a good time for conservatives to point out the enormous price tag of this proposal. It would be a good time for conservatives to point out the contributions already made by government run programs to the high cost of health care in the United States. It would be a good time for conservatives to point out the long waits for medical care that exist in countries with government run systems.
Instead, every right wing commentator I tune in to is pointing out the tasteless joke that David Letterman told last week about Governor Palin’s daughter. Rush Limbaugh expressed his outrage. Howie Carr spent over an hour on it one afternoon. Bill O’Reilly brought a non-verbal communications expert on to his show to comment on the body language of the principals.
What are the priorities, guys?
posted by Li Kim Grebnesi at
8:18 PM
4 Comments:
It would be a good time to point out that for a family of four to pay 15% of their gross income per year on health care is an enormous price tag...take it from me.
Suzie
Hi Suzie. The nice thing about getting back into blogging/Facebook is hearing from you again. Yes, the cost of health care is too high and reform is needed. But the nation needs to be careful that any reform it implements actually lowers costs. The proposals in front of Congress are likely to raise costs instead (by raising demand). We saw this in Massachusetts, where we implemented a similar program (I wrote about this in an earlier entry: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=159934779&blogId=423638106 )
- Li Kim
Welcome back! Not only do we need reform, we need to be outraged! For 30 years the ins. industry, big business, unions, etc have been sitting at the table and negotiating with their own self interest in mind. We are now burdened with outrageous health care cost$. Businesses cannot afford to pay the premiums. Insurance companies don't want to give up their gravy train. Consumers are taking on more of the financial burden when they can least afford it. The powers that be: Ins Co, AMA, hospitals, many in Congress, are unwilling to change the status quo, think outside the box, and allow for true reform to happen. Very disheartening!
Suzie: Since this blog is dedicated to reason, I try never to get outraged! But I did look into one of the issues you raised and it's the topic of my new entry today.
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