why healthcare?

While the polls continue to show that the economy is the primary concern of the people, we have the congress trying to pass a 2000+ page health care reform bill. This process would have been a comical scene if it were not so serious. Congressmen operating behind closed doors, trying to hide what they are writing up from the inquiring public, and refusing entry to the capital by groups bringing petitions in opposition of the bill all compose a discomforting picture of our current political process.

The stated goal of the bill has changed numerous times as it has been written and re-written. First, it was to provide coverage for the uninsured, and then it was to reduce the costs of the uninsured on the government coffers, or to reduce the cost of health care, then it became a need for the government to issue insurance to "compete" in the free market.

None of the proposed bills has offered an inexpensive approach, all are extensive, as well as expensive, and look to increase our deficit, our taxes, reduce Medicare for the elderly, and further compound our problems. It does not appear that any of the stated goals have been achieved but they press on in an attempt to force an unwanted bill on the people of this country. All this appears to be motivated by some goal other than the stated purposes offered up to the press.

So, if it meets none of the intended goals, increases the debt, increases the taxes, cuts the care to the elderly, what then is the purpose? We could accomplish those things in one page. Why 2000+ pages that only do harm? Why the phrase "you shall" 3000 times? It does not appear that any of the actual consequences of the passage of this bill will help our economy nor benefit the people of this country.

While congress does their silly dance over this fiasco they call health care reform our economy continues to suffer, the dollar continues its downward slide, and the rank of unemployed continue to grow. They have worked for months in congress to pass a bill we cannot afford. Perhaps they got the cart in front of the proverbial horse. Maybe...just maybe, the country might have resisted the nonsense of this health care bill a little less if congress had gotten the economy on solid footing before they set about spending trillions more tax dollars.