YET ANOTHER SPEECH THAT OFFERS MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
9/11/2009
President Obama's speech on September 8 was intended to address concerns about government plans for health care. But like his other speeches, it only raised more questions.
President Obama’s speech on September 8 was intended to address concerns about government plans for health care. But like his other speeches, it only raised more questions.
President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on September 8 was yet another speech about his ambitious goal to reform health care. This speech was intended to address the many concerns about how the government plans to do this. However like all his other speeches, this one only raised more questions:
Medicare and Medicaid are projected to be insolvent within a decade and we are trillions of dollars in debt. How can we sustain another government health program?
At this time, why would we risk bankrupting the country with yet another government program that could conceivably destroy the free market and diminish health care for all?
Medicare and Medicaid have cost billions dollars more than anyone ever projected when they were first implemented. Why should we trust the cost projections for this new government program which could potentially be larger than any program ever implemented in history?
Why is the Obama administration so devoted to creating a new government health program without first trying to reform the many programs already in operation? Obama mentioned a plan to minimize fraud and waste in Medicare and Medicaid, but if he knows there is fraud and waste, why not try to minimize it now instead of waiting for yet another government program to be implemented?
How can health care not be rationed when a new government plan will insure millions more, thus creating millions more patients, without any plan to increase the number of doctors and nurses?
Why is the Obama administration so focused on health care when nearly 10 percent of Americans are unemployed?
Why is the Obama administration so focused on health care when polls show that a majority of Americans are satisfied with their current health care?
VA hospitals are woefully inadequate. If the government can’t even provide adequate health care for our national heroes, how can it provide adequate health care for the rest of us?
With our nation involved in two wars, our economy in deep recession and our national debt rapidly increasing, why isn’t the Obama administration focusing on resolving these issues first?
These questions and many others should prompt skepticism in every American that the government is capable of managing a health care program that could potentially consume up to 20 percent of our national economy. Perhaps the scariest question of all is: If our economy is a shambles now, what will it be like once a government health care program takes effect?
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