Mitt Romney's Healthcare Hypocrisy And The GOP Base
I just had to point this article out and wonder why the GOP is against the health plan, as it effectively uses Romney's own system he helped get passed in MA.
Personally, I am just glad they got something done. The status quo was not working anyway, every economist who has looked at health care agrees on that. We would end up up with larger deficits in the long run keeping things "as is."
So something had to be changed. Is this plan perfect? Does everyone agree with it? Hell no, but it is something to start with. Democracy is supposed to be about compromise and the very definition of compromise is an agreement that no one is totally happy about, but can live with, at least that's how it should work.
With legislation like this you have to look at the long term, as the CBO estimate on the plan shows. The first 10 years do not provide much savings, but by the second decade the savings start getting significant; at least a trillion dollars off of our deficit. And it will be endlessly tweaked in the mean time, hopefully towards what works in the plan and eliminating or changing what doesn't work as time goes on.
I would honestly like to see the GOP admit that a lot of their ideas have gone into this bill, indeed the very core of it :) I know this is unlikely, but I can dream can't I?
Another thing about this whole health care debate is the polls. The GOP says the majority of us are against it, and that is true if you ask about it as a whole, but the polls that split the health plan into it's major components find that 70+% agree with the individual major
components of the overall plan. I think this gives us a start on the kind of health care all Americans should have, not just those who can afford it. For a 1st world nation we are kinda behind in the whole universal health thing sadly.
This bill gives us something new to build on and refine; that is a good thing. What we had was certainly not working so I think we are better off just for changing. Due to our legislative process this thing is gonna get revised and changed many times.
It's a start anyway.....
My 2cp
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Personally, I am just glad they got something done. The status quo was not working anyway, every economist who has looked at health care agrees on that. We would end up up with larger deficits in the long run keeping things "as is."
So something had to be changed. Is this plan perfect? Does everyone agree with it? Hell no, but it is something to start with. Democracy is supposed to be about compromise and the very definition of compromise is an agreement that no one is totally happy about, but can live with, at least that's how it should work.
With legislation like this you have to look at the long term, as the CBO estimate on the plan shows. The first 10 years do not provide much savings, but by the second decade the savings start getting significant; at least a trillion dollars off of our deficit. And it will be endlessly tweaked in the mean time, hopefully towards what works in the plan and eliminating or changing what doesn't work as time goes on.
I would honestly like to see the GOP admit that a lot of their ideas have gone into this bill, indeed the very core of it :) I know this is unlikely, but I can dream can't I?
Another thing about this whole health care debate is the polls. The GOP says the majority of us are against it, and that is true if you ask about it as a whole, but the polls that split the health plan into it's major components find that 70+% agree with the individual major
components of the overall plan. I think this gives us a start on the kind of health care all Americans should have, not just those who can afford it. For a 1st world nation we are kinda behind in the whole universal health thing sadly.
This bill gives us something new to build on and refine; that is a good thing. What we had was certainly not working so I think we are better off just for changing. Due to our legislative process this thing is gonna get revised and changed many times.
It's a start anyway.....
My 2cp
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