I have a great idea (which means Washington will never implement it). I am an engineer and make a living solving complex problems. When engineers are tasked to solve a problem the first thing they do is an in-depth study of why the problem exists in the first place. After that you take each cause and try and find a particular solution that fixes it. The problem here is that health care used to be affordable and now it is not. Why is that? Is it the insurance companies gouging consumers? Is it unnecessary malpractice lawsuits? Is it doctors padding the bill with unnecessary tests? Is it the government's inefficiencies? Is it illegal immigrants getting free care that the taxpayer ultimately pays? I don't know, but my idea would be for the government, Republicans and Democrats, to do a lengthy, thorough study and find this out. Then we could start tackling each cause one at a time and develop solutions that actually address the problem. Why does congress have to ram a hastily crafted bill down our throats? Why can't they figure out what the cause is and fix it? Like I said earlier, nearly 100% of the people against the Democrats bill are for some sort of reform, but they don't want reform for reforms sake, especially when the government has such a poor track record. Lets have real reform that really fixes the problem and you will see support from nearly everyone.
RixonGator (08/11/2009, 1:19 PM )
Opponents dominate Cardin town hall meeting on health care -- baltimoresun.com
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