Committed to getting health care reform done
September 5th, 2009 . by Robert
“I am committed to getting health care reform done—done soon and done right,” Baucus said in a statement. Senator Baucus D-Mont. Senate Finance Committee Chairman may have his sentiments in the right place but his logic and common sense have left the building. Mr. Baucus’ statement is oxymoronic in that rushing into this so-called health care reform can have nothing but disastrous results from the imposition of over 40 additional layers of bureaucracy administering our medical industry.
The government run medicare program, currently headed for bankruptcy, is a prime example of the government’s inability to administer health care. Granted, with myriad costly and the intrusive government regulation of existing health care there needs to be reform, however, the reform needs to be a reduction in government intrusion, the regulation of ambulance chasing attorneys, limitations on medical corporations and a return to paying for what you receive. Where are the incentives for private physicians that can make allowances, as it once was, for a portion of their practice to be charitable?
Contrary to popular belief, the insurance companies are not the excess-profit villains in this issue, just check the salaries paid to their execs, and the ROI to stock holders. The insurance industry while profitable is not the biggest problem.
There is no magic bullet that will fix all the problems and provide free health care to everyone but, there is a piece of bad legislation that will place excessive cost and a huge burden on everyone.
These pie-in-the-sky pieces of legislation always result in destruction of private sector jobs and end up costing all taxpayers.
The question that has to be asked: is the situation so bad right now that a slow, steady, and reasoned path to reform must be sacrificed for a thousand pages of convoluted and open-ended political double speak?