Health Care, Politics and Comprise

"It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement." Etienne de la Boetie

The art of politics is negotiate and compromise.

Those who wanted Universal Health Care to accommodate certain groups, and to help eliminate the unsustainable growth of the Medicare/Medicaid problems, presented a grandiose, four different plans, with confusion and pie in the sky expectations.

All politicians know the way to get a law passed is to ask for too much, then compromise and settle for less. This way the opposition can claim victory, and the law is enacted, which will be modified in the next session of congress.

The debate is about how much the government should be involved in a service between a doctor, patient and insurance company. The debate should not be about how much the government should be involved, but should be about if the government should be involved at all! If the government is involved a little, it has the power to be involved a lot. There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that gives the Federal Government the right to require citizens to buy a product or service.

The advocates for Universal Health Care will get a law passed soon. Then both sides will claim a victory. The losers will be the consumers and liberty.

Charles Tolleson