Not a lot of time today. Spent several hours calling on a customer. That's quite different for me, I do almost all business on the web, but today's meeting was a total success.
In the meantime, over the last few days I've written significantly about football, because it's that time of year, and also Gang Green's still alive in the playoffs. And although there's not much else new, health care's coming back into play because the Republican house leadership has vowed to repeal the new law.
But what's important to me is, not so much the law itself, which seems to be a total disaster, financially and otherwise. But the fact that very few if any, supporters of the bill actually know what's in it. The majority leadership rammed the legislation through, simply because they had overwhelming votes via their numbers, yet none of them knew what they had actually voted for.
Consequently, what's happening now is the individual items in the bill are being brought to light and two things are becoming quickly apparent. The costs of health care will not only increase for everyone, but illnesses covered and services now provided will decrease over time. And by socializing the system, the country will soon mirror Canada and England where health care is at it's worst on the planet.
Now, it doesn't take a medical degree or a doctorate in applied math to figure out that adding 30 million uninsured folks to the health care rolls has to somehow be paid for. So, if the costs increase, and the new folks don't chip in, where does the funding come from? The answer is, everyone else of course.
So, hopefully what will happen now is enough noise will be made and enough things stirred up to cause what should have been done in the first place. Unwind the bill, take it apart and attack each issue one at a time till it's fixed. Because, perhaps there might be sensible way to extend coverage to those who really need it but can't afford it. But I certainly don't believe the answer is to take the best health care system in the world and shred it for political reasons.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
No comments:
Post a Comment