tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041089218060371051.post5314182367132388614..comments2023-10-25T04:32:52.345-04:00Comments on Just Blowing Smoke...: Timing Is EverythingTimothy W Higginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17118861693269565715noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041089218060371051.post-1635950872104013292010-03-28T15:26:41.678-04:002010-03-28T15:26:41.678-04:00Roland,
I don't want to take this too far afi...Roland,<br /><br />I don't want to take this too far afield, as the post was about political strategy and not the details of the legislation. That's a discussion for another day. That being said, I won't leave your comment hanging out there. <br /><br />I will respond that interference of the government in the cost of health care through Medicare and Medicaid is as much to blame for affordable health care as anything in this country. Increasing that government footprint in the process is unlikely to solve it. <br /><br />Government cannot control the cost of anything, they can only mandate what the payment for it will be and who will be forced to pay it.Timothy W Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17118861693269565715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041089218060371051.post-69477130518329626132010-03-28T15:15:11.915-04:002010-03-28T15:15:11.915-04:00"... a true Conservative would tell you that ..."... a true Conservative would tell you that there is plenty of access to health care, it is affordable health care that is the problem in this country."<br /><br />To which, I respond: If it is not affordable, it is not accessible.Roland Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14510269002146276854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041089218060371051.post-80076307640189297252010-03-27T17:21:43.918-04:002010-03-27T17:21:43.918-04:00Roland,
You're right that it's a tangent,...Roland,<br /><br />You're right that it's a tangent, but I will try to make at least a brief answer if I can.<br /><br />Equating Republicans with Conservatives is not entirely correct, especially in the case of George W Bush. That being said, neither were doing their job, a job that I believe is different from what you mention.<br /><br />I believe that a true Conservative would tell you that there is plenty of access to health care, it is affordable health care that is the problem in this country. There have been many administrations that could have addressed this issue and did not. <br /><br />Government, with its inherently wasteful fraud and bureaucracy, and the taxes that it takes to pay for its own growth are as much the problem as the solution.<br /><br />This latest program, though a well-intentioned effort, will prove no different. Like its predecessors: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid it will grow debt, it will stifle the competition of a truly free market, and it will do nothing to reduce the cost of medical care in this country.Timothy W Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17118861693269565715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041089218060371051.post-81504795218805201402010-03-27T16:11:25.536-04:002010-03-27T16:11:25.536-04:00Going off on a tangent here, but I cannot help but...Going off on a tangent here, but I cannot help but wonder where all those Republicans and Conservatives were on getting something done about health care availability for all Americans during the eight years that George W. Bush was President and the Democrats were not a big majority in Congress.Roland Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14510269002146276854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4041089218060371051.post-44680171657489187112010-03-27T12:27:15.088-04:002010-03-27T12:27:15.088-04:00Amigo Tim,
"Was it a failure of purpose on t...Amigo Tim,<br /><br /><i>"Was it a failure of purpose on the part of the House and Senate leadership to see this drag through Congressional recesses in 2009, knowing that some would face difficult meetings with constituents during those breaks?"</i><br /><br />In the case of our very own District Misrepresentative Mz. Mousie Kaptur, she cleverly ducked the facing of her angry representees by cleverly, all of a sudden deciding that she had to jounrney (conveniently) to Poland to desperately seek her roots/ancestors, a burning cause of which (and since) she has never spoken...<br /><br />Odd, that "urgent" need to seek one's roots when there was plenty of "business" waiting for her to face in her very own home district.<br /><br />Yet her "handsome" mug has been popping up on the Television with great regularity since then offering information to an increasing core of her constituent taxpayers about how to "claim" a tax deduction which would save them money on their taxes, or give them a larger check despite having paid no taxes at all.<br /><br />This FOXY (not in the "appealing" sense) needs to be retired from hen house guard and tossed on the growing heap of the unemployed..., again IMNHO.<br /><br />If she has any future involving chickens, this "stewer" should stand in for one spring chicken and, for once, sacrifice her place in Washington for some new bird that is in touch with this district's voting constituency.Hooda Thunkit (Dave Zawodny)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13176392380086227377noreply@blogger.com