Obama Care - Turns into Reid-Pelossi Care

There is no doubt that the President has delegated his Obama Care to the Congress. In what has been a conviction that the reason Clinton failed was that the legislation had no real support in the Congress, so he decided to leave it to them, so that he would have their engagement. This may be a way to get their "buy in" but it has created a chaotic process to date. Those of us who do not agree with the majority of the reforms being pushed by are inclined to think that the chaos is a good thing; hoping that it will so confuse the legislators, than nothing will happen.

I believe that there is a risk that this chaos will create a bill that will get approved, and that the bill will itself cause chaos in the health care industry. There is a risk that as the democrats work to satisfy all the "engaged legislators," will be such a Christmas tree of pandering to each viewpoint, that it will be another monumental government debacle. The opposition must keep attacking the net result of the bill...a very large increase in taxes for all workers; a monumental increase in the deficit and reduced health benefits for virtually everybody. All of this will happen, even if there is no "public option." If the public option, or some masked hybrid, is passed, then the horrors of a complete elimination of the private health care and health insurance programs will be a terrible reality.

I have said earlier, there can be no compromise by the opposition. The opposition must defeat this debacle, and then propose the rational reforms that can make large incremental change without completely destroying the current system and the things that actually work. The health care system must have real competition across all currently erected boundaries, and that competition will be far better than any public option. Fraud in Medicare and Medicaid does not need this bill to be attacked. Tort reform can change the economics of practicing medicine and putting more accountability into the hands of the consumer is essential. There are many ways to do that, but one way is to address the employer supplied(tax free) benefits of health insurance.