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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Are Obama, Dems Confident
Of Their Health Care Reform?
The answer to that question is no, the president and our Democratic leaders have no confidence of their own health care reform.
Their actions of the last couple of weeks make that quite apparent.
On the campaign trail, then-Sen. Obama promised more transparency in government, that his only interest is for the people and that he wanted the creation of the health care reform on C-SPAN. If this was baseball, the president already has three strikes against him.
- The president had closed-door meetings with fellow Democrats.
- A great deal was given to unions this week where they won’t have to pay any taxes until 2018, while non-union workers will have to start 2013.
- And no C-SPAN coverage and closed-door meetings with fellow Democrats.
Yes, number three on the list is nearly the same as the first one, but since it was a huge broken campaign promise, it was deemed necessary to repeat it twice.
Now if President Obama and the Democrats were confident about their health care reform, not only would they make sure its entire creation would be in C-SPAN so the American people can really see what is going into this, but they would allow Americans to vote on it and not just our elected leaders.
From penalizing people without health insurance, to taxing health insurance and now giving unions a better deal than non-union workers, this health care reform is going to make Americans sick with worry.
Many will believe that this is a partisan attack on the president and the Democrats, but they would be mistaken. The reform and how it’s being created is simply a bad idea that the majority of Americans, 55 percent according to Rasmussen Reports poll, do not want.
And this editorial would still be written against the reform if the Republicans were crafting it in the same way that the president and his fellow Democrats are.
What the president should do is scrap this health care reform and go back to the drawing board, but with restrictions:
- Both Republicans and Democrats must sit down and create this.
- It will be debated and created on C-SPAN (real transparency).
- No penalizing and keep taxes, if any, low.
- No privileges to special interests (unions).
- Allow the American people to vote on it.
If the president ordered this, many Americans would accept it and it would be the real hope and change that he promised us all.
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