Is Obama’s Reason For Health Care Change Not B/c Of A Need For It But Rather A Desire To Socialize It?
June 28th, 2009Why do we need President Obama’s big-bang health-care reform at all? What’s the real agenda here? If it’s really to cover the truly uninsured, a much cheaper, targeted, small-ball approach would do the trick.
But on the other hand, maybe the real goal is a larger, ultra-liberal plan aimed at a government takeover of the U.S. health system.
In a recent column, Larry Elder points to an ABC News/USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation survey that shows 89 percent of Americans are satisfied with their health care. That means up to 250 million people could be happy with their plans. So why is it that we need Obama’s big-bang health-care overhaul in the first place?
In a new Pew Research Center poll, only 41 percent of those surveyed believe the U.S. health-care system needs to be completely rebuilt.
In early 1993, when Mr. and Mrs. Clinton started on health-care reform, 55 percent said the system needs a complete overhaul. So something has changed.
In a new CBS/New York Times poll, 38 percent says the economy is the most important problem facing the country, 19 percent says jobs, and only 7 percent says health care. In an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll on the same question, 24 percent says the budget deficit is today’s most worrisome problem, while only 11 percent says health care. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_c…
It’s all about money and power with the Dems. Plus you can throw in a desire to turn this country to socialism. Look up the definition of socialism, then look at what the Obama Administration has done with the banking and automotive industry. Next is health care and he will just about have total control over us.
60% of all bankruptcy due to Medical Costs. 10 Million Americans are uninsured and you think there is No Problem?
You don’t see the connection between the economic crisis and the Health Care Industry?
Using figures from the same polls, I can present a totally different view:
1) 75% want the health care system changed so all are covered for necessary care. (Pew Poll)
2) 61% want the system changed to limit annual cost increases. (Pew Poll)
3) 80% are dissatisfied with the total cost of health care. (ABC poll)
4) 54% are dissatisfied with the quality of health care. (ABC poll)
Bear in mind, that the ABC News/USA Today/Kaiser Family Foundation poll is nearly 3 years old, while the Pew poll was conducted in June, 2009. In similar findings this month, the New York Times/CBS poll found:
5) 72% favor a “government-administered health insurance plan something like Medicare to compete with private health insurance companies”.
6) By over a 2-1 margin (59% to 26%), people believe the government will hold down costs better than private insurers.
At this point, I guess the question is whether we are going to have a rational discussion about health care or whether the opposition is going to raise “straw man” arguments like “socialized medicine”.