Lean, Mean Health Care Machine

All signs point to this Wednesday as being the day that the White House will roll out it's latest version of the Health Care Bill. This incarnation is rumored to be not only leaner, but it is said to contain some proposals championed by the Republicans at the Health Care Summit this last Thursday.

The early buzz is indicating that TORT reform will be included from the Republican's idea pool but it seems like interstate commerce of health insurance will be left by the wayside in favor of some brand of Governmental price-fixing. This just seems like typical Washington from where I'm sitting. To quote the Gipper, "Government isn't the solution to our problems, Government IS the problem."

Instead of letting the free market work like it's supposed to without the interference of Mommy Government, more intrusion is the supposed fix all to all our countries health care woes? Letting government meddle in the free market is one of the reasons our economy is in the sorry shape it is today.

That's right. I'm looking at you Fannie and Freddie.

Are we really supposed to believe that more intrusion by the government should clear the problem right up? If you believe that I've got some nice real estate on the Moon you might be interested in.

I have very little hope that whatever is released this Wednesday will be anything less than a disaster unless some major changes take place to H.R. 3200 as it now stands.

TORT reform is a good start (if it is indeed included) but it's going to do very little in the way of controlling costs if nothing is done to increase the competition between existing insurance companies.

The so-called "public option" isn't the answer either. Private insurance companies could never fairly compete with a government subsidized monstrosity. All it would really accomplish is to drive private insurance companies out of business leading to a federal monopoly of the insurance industry.

I'm all for increasing the affordability of insurance so that the 47 million people who are currently uninsured can have access to health insurance, but what, if anything, is being done to increase the number of doctors to see this new group of tens of millions of the newly insured? As far as I can tell: nothing.

Explain to me how this isn't the road to rationed care?

I thank you for your time and apologize for any typos.