The Daily Background
| Congress ought to pass health care reforms NOW and upgrade it later
Filed at 8:21 am, Thursday July 30th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
My general feeling about the current status of health care reform making its way through Congress right now is: let’s just pass something better than what we have now and continue to make it better later. Despite their differences and varying inadequacies, all of the proposals debated by Congressional Democrats are better than what we’ve got now, which is pathetic.
As Obama says, let’s not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If this whole thing goes down in flames, as Republicans are whispering excitedly, it could be the end of Obama’s big initiatives, and nobody wants that (well, except for the Republicans obviously).
Yes - but if the American health care system is to be modernized, it must include the public option. We should help Obama bring the US up to par with other democracies. We currently spend more of our national resources on our health care system, while inhabitants of countries with socialized medicine live longer … go figure.
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