Logic is a pesky thing. Leaving personal feelings, party lines, and even personal ethics out of the health care debate, I can really boil the argument against the proposed health care reform plan to basic economics and simple numbers.
So I ask the following three, very fair, very simple questions… and I am open to any logical points of view that may retort them. These questions need specific answers if I am ever to support any government run health reform.
1. Please explain, specifically, how the government will be able to provide better health care, for more people, for less money.
2. Please describe in detail how rationing of care will not take place when demand for health care drastically increases (by about 4.6 million people by the government’s own calculations) and there is no simultaneous increase in the supply of health care providers.
3. Please explain why a national health care option will be desirable for America when the similar, yet smaller, Medicare program is currently collapsing under it’s own weight? How will the national health care plan be run differently to ensure this doesn’t happen? Again, please be specific.
F.Y.I. I’m sending these same questions to my representatives. I’ll let you know what they respond.
August 21, 2009
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