Why More Pro-health Care Reform Speeches?

by j wright
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At the risk of sounding anti-Obamacare, whatever that is, its difficult for me to understand why President Obama, in the face of devastating public opinion to the contrary, insists that a total overhaul of our health care system is necessary. Why, if I wanted to replace my kitchen cabinetry and counter tops, would I begin by demolishing the entire house?
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Now President Obama is set to make a high-level pitch for health care reform before a joint session of Congress. Many of those members, who if brave enough, recently stood before their constituents and felt the heat of an aroused public, who by all national polls are well satisfied enough with the current system that it doesn’t need to be totally destroyed and eventually taken over and operated by the federal government.
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President Obama will be preaching to the choir, at least that’s how it appears to me. The more he speaks, the faster his job approval ratings plummet, and they have, like a stone. All of his “face time” on national television has done nothing for health reforms and has definitely affected his popularity. One definition of insanity is to continue doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Maybe listening to the people is in order.
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Certainly, his failure to get consensus on health care reform can’t be blamed totally on the Republicans; they have been watching the congressional Democrats doing a good enough job of that. The House Democrats want a “public option.” (Government run health care; eventually eliminating private insurance providers.) The Senate Democrats say “No” to public option. The Republicans are left out of that stalemate all together. Many of their ideas are constructive and bear consideration but the special interests the Democrats favor prohibit even a look-see. No wonder much of the country is upset.
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