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Aug. 21, 2009 Wanting Health Care Reform is not the same as wanting the specific health care reforms that President Obama wants… and when the news media and the President constantly point out that surveys of the American people indicate that we want health care reform it reminds me of the several times I was called during the presidential campaign and asked to take a survey. On all occasions, it was obvious that the survey questions were skewed to obtain specific results. There was no possibility to interject an alternative choice to any question asked, no possibility to say “yes, if” or “no, if”. The end result is that when I hear opponents or proponents of any specific measure tout that various survey results say such-and-such a percentage of the American people want this or that, I have absolutely no faith in those findings. Yes, the majority of American people want some sort of health care reform ---that does not morph into the majority of American people wanting a public health care option or any of a number of other reform measures being discussed now. It’s great that President Obama wants to pass a health care reform bill. It’s ludicrous that he is aggressively selling this to the American people and expecting us to climb on board when he is not telling us the specifics of such a bill. He’s saying it won’t do this, it will do that, but he’s painting it all in such broad terms that none of us typical Americans have any idea how the actual bill will impact us personally. My understanding now is that that there are 5 bills under various stages of consideration… how can I climb on board the move to support any of these when I don’t know the specifics--- and neither, by the way, does President Obama. He doesn’t know which bill may eventually be passed by both House and Senate. He doesn’t know what the final bill will look like and what the changes in it will be. He says that 2/3 of the cost of health care reform can be paid for by eliminating waste. . . great, then start eliminating some of that waste now. He says that a public health option will not put private insurance companies out of business, yet it appears that at the end of a 5-year implementation plan, that private insurance companies would have to comply with a number of government-mandated conditions. What would it cost insurance companies to comply with those conditions? Would the cost be prohibitive and therefore force private companies out of business? I personally believe that a lot of health-care related businesses engage in outlandish practices and routinely gouge the American consumer, but I would rather see the government reform measures go after curbing those practices than go further into the business of being an insurance provider for us and killing the private sector insurance industry along the way. He says that the government would offer incentives so that businesses wouldn’t all jump onto the public option immediately. However, it seems to me that a businessman would be looking at the bottom line and if the public option were less expensive and saved him money, of course the wise business decision would be to jump ship and be on board with the public option.
President Obama consistently points to “fear-mongering” tactics by Republicans to work against getting a Health Care Reform Bill passed. I don’t know about the rest of American voters, but I get really tired of hearing this. My opposition to supporting a Health Care Reform Bill at this point is that I’m being asked to give blanket support to health care reform without knowing what the specific provisions of that reform would be. I’m not part of any Republican group that’s trying to push opposition. . . I am just someone who does not believe in buying into a general movement without knowing the specifics of that movement. Since there is not a specific Bill with specific provisions to either support or oppose, it seems to me that the President is spending a lot of time and money drumming up support for general health care reform when the American people have already made it clear that they are in favor of general health care reform. Why not wait for a specific Bill to be on the table and then the President could campaign for or against specific provisions of that bill? Then the American people would be able to say “yes” or “no” with comfort, because we would know what we were saying “yes” or “no” about.
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