When Obama was running for president and after he won he told Americans that it would not be easy to get America back on track. In fact he said that everything would have to get worse before it got better, a statement that many of us choose to ignore. We can't bail out every industry and person that has trouble and not expect that there will be chaos and huge problems eventually for our government.
One of the main problems that our government is dealing with today is how to "bail out Americans with no health care" by providing a universal health care plan. While I am all for the ability of every person to get help when they are sick, I am very afraid of how quickly this plan is going through our Congress, and how little we all know about it. The house has already passed the health care plan. The proposed plan is a thick stack of pages all written with a ton of legal jargon that even the best and most schoolery lawyers have trouble reading and understanding.
The phrase "Rome wasn't built in a day" springs in to my head. I would much rather our country take its time with health care and come up with a really good plan that would benefit our country then make this crazy push to put something through most Americans and most members of Congress probably don't even understand.
I completely agree with you. Many Americans chose not to hear that it was going to take awhile for America to get back on track. And, I also agree that everyone should be able to get medical help when they need it. My mom and I argue constantly over how fast the Health Care plan has moved through the house.
ReplyDeleteThere have been many reports that the almost 2000 page bill has not been read by many Congressional officials. I have worked in a Congressional office as an intern. Many times, it is the job of the staffers to read through the bill and inform the officials the important points of the bill so they know how to properly vote on the bill.
It will be interesting to see if Congress passes the bill, how quickly the individual state governments will try to "override" the Act.
I agree this bill is being passed way to quickly. Didn't Fox news say that Democrats promised that the bill would be online for 48 hours before it was voted on? Yet it was voted on less that 24 hours after being finished. Somehow I don't see the congress men reading 2000 plus pages in that amount of time.
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