Bye Bye Public Option

Over the past few months President Obama has been pushing health care reform and attempting to persuade the public to join in favor of a public option. He believes that this public option will create honesty among the private sector and push health care costs in the other direction. With this debate, there has arisen the public's fight against this plan for one plain reason: we don't want any more government control.

There is no question that people around the country, including all Republicans, want health care reform. The path to achieving it is something that people can't agree on. The problem that Obama is facing is a similar one that President Clinton faced when he attempted this change. The similarities being the Democrats have control of the House, Senate, White House and insist on jamming reform down our throats before anyone can digest it. Another big problem that stands in the way of health care in the near future is that Obama and his administration have stuck their nose the auto industry, banking industry, energy industry, and now the health care industry. This is a big problem for many Americans because they do not want more government control in their lives. That is what it boils down too.

Its no surprise to me that reform has once again not gone in favor of the Democrats. It seems everytime they have the opportunity for change they mess it up. Maybe things would have been different if Obama had stayed out of Wall Street or not given all of those bailouts. With that being said, I also believe that if the bill wasnt 1000 plus pages long and somebody would have read it then maybe some Americans would have jumped on board with Obama and his public option. Should he have waited another year or so before introducing this? Probabaly yes, this would have given people time to sift through the smoke and digest it and people would have forgotten about the government take over of 2009. Now the only thing left is hope for public non profit co-op plans. This plan will also not go down without of fight. Good luck President Obama.

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By Dr. Smith