by Wahoo » Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:53 am
If the current health care takeover bill is so good for the country, why can't the democrats get 216 out of 257 democrats to vote for it? If it's so good, why not even 1 republican voting for it? The answer is that everyone knows the bill is nothing but a first step in the takeover of the health care system with over 150 new boards, commissions, etc, cuts in Medicare and tax increases for everyone else, and incentives for companies to drop health care coverage and pay the less-expensive fines.
Incremental cost fixes like legal reform to reduce the costs of lawsuits and malpractice insurance would help. Allow us to buy from any insurance company across the country. Common sense on how much doctors can mark up the cost of everything they use. There are a lot of things that can be done to lower insurance and medical costs without a wholesale takeover of the entire system using a 2,700-page bill that has to include bribes to get individual democrats to vote for it.