Looooooong Entry...

[ixnayonthetimma]

The big topic du jour right now is health care reform. And what follows are a few of my thoughts and observations on the health care reform debate overall. I will try to avoid any pointlessly political overtones, since it's too easy, just generates anger and shock value and usually goes nowhere but to distract from real and meaningful dialogue

Comments

Re: No floor, but how about just a plank to walk off of?

[the_glass_jc]

Have you ever heard of the "Debt Clock"? I'm sure you have, as you seem to be the kind of guy who's in the know on that sort of thing. So, since you know what it is (or could easily hop on over to Wikipedia to find out) I won't bother explaining it.

In 2008, the U.S. National debt had finally exceeded $10,000,000,000,000. This had never happened and the clock did not have enough places to house all of those zeros. So, naturally, plans were set into motion to add another place. That way we won't have to worry again until we exceed 99,000,000,000,000.

For me the concept of a trillion is rather abstract. Thus, I decided to write out all of the zeros in the previous paragraph. Looking at them, I cannot fathom why anyone would not be concerned. I find it absolutely astounding that the people that we elect to protect us and make things better would be so irresponsible.

So, how can I trust that anything they do with health care is going to fix anything? Republican? Democrat? Doesn't matter. The sheer incompetence is something that all of these people have in common.

And, as Alex pointed out, Obama's solution isn't being thought about at all. They're more interested in doing things right now, instead of doing them right.

I'm going to stop here before I become too angry and have an aneurysm.

P.S. I don't believe in health insurance. I consider it gambling and gambling is illegal in the great state of Texas, from which I hail.