The problems defined.
Businesses can no longer afford Health Care premiums, meaning that either more Americans go uninsured or we place ourselves at a competitive disadvantage with the rest of the world.
Quite frankly health care cost too much for what it delivers in general, and those costs are increasingly leaving the middle class behind.
That is health care problem in a very over simple nutshell.
The Republican problem is aptly displayed above, in an almost gleeful attack on a solution without anything that looks like a solution to the first problem.
Do Republicans understand that throwing rocks and cirticism will not get you leadership? That these tactics, purely political, will not actually solve the countries problems? That simply seeking power for power's sake is not in our best interest? That we have enemies actually attacking our country, so maybe we can focus our efforts against them and not those whose sin is merely belonging to another party?
Do Republicans think that if they toprpedo Heath Care reform that there will not be a severe voter backlash in a year? That the manufactured fear of death panels will erase the growing problem originally stated and that actual problems will still have to be solved at some point?
i appreciate your civility and thoughtfulness
you sound a lot like the president in that you're very good at describing the problem
obama's solutions are far worse than where we are now and where we're heading, even
the republicans' problems don't exist, they will fill leadership's void like a vacuum, like physics
just as obama came from COMMUNITY ORGANIZING into the white house
republicans will be considered heroes by most americans for stopping obamacare
problems remaining with obamacare (which is dead, anyway, sorry):
1. it fines individuals
2. it forces folks who can't afford it to finagle for themselves that which they can't afford, hardly the help they were expecting or felt promised
3. it bends the cost curve the wrong way, significantly (said cbo, july 16), actuarial underpinning of obamacare's primal impetus (which was economic, you recall, not social)
4. it cuts medicare and medicaid half a tril (that's why seniors will see those who stop obamacare as saviors)
5. it stripped e-verify, per the killing of heller in ways and means, july 17, leaving no enforcement arm to ensure the empty assertion that illegals will not be included (this is why the SIX are so fast backpedaling this morning, no?)
6. it still looks to end of life costs for scary savings
7. it generalizes abortion funding
8. it taxes small business---in the worst conceivable economic climate
9. it surcharges upper incomes, politically problematical
10. it taxes benefits, ala john mccain (whom obama rightly beat up for even suggesting it during campaign, but now impounds vs cadillac plans are described repeatedly by obtuse obama as his favorite method of scraping together a pittance of the revenue required for his almost obscene ambitions)
11. it's PERCEIVED (appearances are reality in politics) as foot in the door incrementalism towards single payer, the buzziest issue will be the inability of privates to compete with subsidized publics
12. no one, not even folks in his own party, TRUST this president
13. i have never seen, on the other hand, any president make a bid that ASKS for so MUCH trust
14. obamacare as currently envisioned is BY FAR the greatest DOMESTIC political issue in us history
15. and yet no one knows, for example, exactly what a co op is (even folks like baucus and durbin), thus we all have to TRUST him
16. no one knows exactly what he means by "insurance exchanges," we only know sorta what he means (most people are coming to think HE doesn't even know exactly what he means)---again, astronomical amounts of TRUST are being beggared
17. he's not serious about tort reform, he really comes off as funnily phony on the subject
18. hr3200 is dead, he's gotta start all over
he should try for one focused bill per year for 8 years, hello
universalism never did have a chance, he's not real bright
sorry
