Obama and Healthcare reform

If you look at all the polls honestly, you will find that people are split on the bill overall. And when you break it down into components, people tend to favor them when asked element by element. And when you question the costs, people tend to disfavor them. It's a lot more complex than to be reduced to "The American People are against this bill". It would not be controversial if support on both sides were not there.

This is the way it has always worked, as the republican found out recently themselves. Both parties seem to get in power with a small majority and think they are going to be there for decades and don't have to cooperate to get things done. But the pendulum always swings back. This is natural and doesn't bother me when it is a small oscillation around equilibrium. But the political swings from extreme to extreme are creating conditions where it passes through the middle (where most people are) very quickly, leaving the moderate majority of this country repeatedly switching their votes in an attempt to brake both parties from those extreme swings. It's wasted energy that's keep int country from moving forward.

So what is new? Every administration forces issues, sometimes they win and sometimes they lose. Sometimes the fallout is bad and sometimes it is trivial. Bush made a major and controversial effort to privatize social security that was a spectacular failure and democrats all thought it would be republican suicide. But it didn't happen. Bush passed a Trillion-dollar Health bill himself, the Medicare Prescription Drug Program that never identified a way to pay for itself. It wasn't an election issue either.

The issues that took the republicans out of office were the two wars and the economic collapse.

The game has been on since 2000 when the republicans gained control of the WHite House and the Hill. They railroaded a lot of legislation past democrats. Rove predicted that the republicans would be in power for the next 40 years. They saw no reason to compromise on anything and they didn't. Of course the democrats are getting some payback now. Both sides are foolish because it takes us further off the straight road into a political course swinging back and forth from one ditch to another.

Both parties have been stupid for a long time. It is why I advocate a nation, moderate third party to represent the pragmatic, smart, and reasonable citizens (most of us).

 

Remember that! Who is the majority? Have you forgotten already?

You believe your own propaganda, as usual and haven't bothered to check it. FOXnews commentators don't represent the US population.

 

The two doctors I know well say that it saves money, hassles, and time in the the long run. But the transition period is costly. And they say that doctors are serving slightly fewer patients per day because typing info in on a laptop takes a bit longer than scribbling on a clipboard. The savings comes in needing fewer support staff to enter data from near-illegible notes, to retrieve and refile paper records, fewer lost records, and automated prescription systems.

All 21st century business is digitizing records rapidly. It is inevitable for this to happen in the medical industry too and the sooner they get it done and get beyond the initial hiccups the better.