Obama, who took no questions, said the opposition was no surprise. "Throughout history, whenever we have sought to change this country for the better, there have always been those who wanted to preserve the status quo," he said. "These always boil down to a contest between hope and fear."
My guess is, that throughout history, whenever we have sought to change this country for the worse, there have also been those who wanted to preserve the status quo. Only history gets to say if something is better or worse... and if it is worse, then we are already stuck with it by the time history gets around to making it's call.
Of course, we can take a lesson from history to guide us in decisions we make now. In that regard, the overwhelming evidence points to this being a plan to make things worse, not better. No amount of hope will change that, I fear.
Right now, the contest is between those who hope that what has been tried and failed everywhere will succeed, and that the government who has an iron clad history of being inefficient and unreliable will be both efficient and reliable with the most important thing in our lives: our lives. On the other hand, there are those who fear that our government has stopped listening to the will of the people, and wants to control more of our lives than it already does; and they fear that our health care decisions will be made by the same government who has demonstrated ineptitude with the US Postal System, Amtrak, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, VA care, $4000 toilet seats, IRS tax code and most other government programs.
This should be a no-brainer. Yet, there remain those that are adament for reform. Adament for "Single Payer (single provider)" health insurance. Why? What is in it for them? I doubt it is altruistic concern for people's health.
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