Newsflash: Those Out want those IN Out !

Of course Rush Limburger isn't the only NeoCon-Republican-type who wants to see President Obama and the Democrats fail. They all do of course. It's the nature of the game to want to defeat your opponents. The unified line we hear from the Right is growing deficits and the huge costs of paying off the idiocy of the last Administration.

I'm thinking of the healthcare crisis as an urgent need and it's bumping into the gigantic cost of the bailouts, the mortgage crisis and of course the darkening international situtations in the Middle East as well as North Korea which have strained our military to the breaking point. We need Russia's help with Iran and China with North Korea and neither seem willing to cooperate. These things are dangerous and unbelieveably costly and won't go away. In the face of them the NeoCon answer is that solving the healthcare mess of 46 million uninsured citizens and an out-of-control healthcare machine can't be solved now. The nub of the issue for the Right is that offering a government supported healthcare option, like Medicare, for everyone will destroy the private health insurance industry. Everyone has an ox, drug and insurance companies, large healthcare organizations, some medical groups - all those who make a profit from treating illness. Coupled with this are known needs which will reform and improve healhcare - prevention as a treatment component, wellness programs, a concentration in medicine on educating people to avoid the inevitable results of poor lifestyles. All of these are basic to health reform but insurance coverage for all is the base and foundation and must be part of the solution and I see no way it will happen without a government plan as an option for universal coverage.

I have long believed that basic health insurance should be mandated for everyone from their entrance into the workforce and Social Security. Anyone obtaining a license for a car must show proof of required liability insurance. Why not the same for healthcare, a mandate for the employee and the employer? This would probably be at the level of catastrophic coverage with options for additional coveraged as needed or offered to each person and would have higher deductibles.

But a Government sponsored option must be part of the structure, and the inevitable competition with the insurance industry can only strengthen and improve healthcare and lower costs in the longrun. It is the basis of free enterprise. We have 'socialism' now in the form of plans given to Congress and the rest of the government or those with incomes high enough to buy into expensive private plans.

Medicare isn't perfect by any means but remains a lifesaver for those on Social Security and if Congresses of both parties hadn't raped the SS trust funds over the years would be in far better financial shape today. The Democrats have control the Government now. It's high time they act on all the things they have campaigned for.