Missed Opportunity?
President Obama’s swing at the health reform ball may go down as another “missed opportunity”. It will not, in the lens of history, go down as a misdirected effort, but rather as another misjudged effort. The fact that the Democrats have a 41 seat majority in the House of Representatives and are stumbling to pass a less than perfect health care reform bill, speaks volumes.
For six months we have heard discussed in the media, death panels, abortion coverage, and government run health care, instead of first having established with the American people what is wrong with the current system, what options exist to fix it, and why it should be fixed. Without this primary debate, why should we expect there to be a consensus. Too many people make too much money with the current arrangement, and too many people, who are already insured, refuse to open their minds to other possibilities and even more profoundly, the morality of universal coverage.
If the country was committed to universal coverage, and the debate today was about whether the proposed legislation accomplished that, then we all could be proud of our Congress. That is not the case, and we are close to have wasted an important opportunity.
This entry was posted on November 7, 2009 at 12:10 pm and is filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Politics, Republican Party. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.
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