Obama's Health Care speech, Part 3

The president stated that he would accept the principle of tort reform to reduce the costs of defensive medicine. He didn't accept it, he made mention of it. His comments weren't an endorsement of tort reform, only a bone thrown out to distract and sidestep, an area at which the president is an absolute master. Don't forget the other side of the coin. Not only are the litigators lobbying hard to leave tort reform as is, the ACORN web of organizations use malpractice to go after the medical industry with as many malpractice suits as possible. This is Alinsky's theory of overburdening the system to the point of implosion, in action. President Obama has shown and is continuing this week to show the he will fall on his sword for his Union supporters. Meaningful tort reform is not going to come out of this administration.

At the very least, Mr. Obama should listen to the will of the people he is supposed to represent; he should stop pretending that the August Townhall meetings didn’t happen, that there hasn’t been a national revolt against a government takeover of health care and start being constructive rather than continuing with the rhetoric. To paraphrase him, it’s time to stop playing games. It is time to seriously address the issues and provide some detail Mr. President.

There is certainly much which can be improved with the current state of health insurance by providing for individual ownership, portability, health savings accounts, eliminating exclusion for pre existing conditions and true tort reform. This does require personal responsibility for ones own health which doesn’t seem too realistic in today’s political environment, but it is the common sense answer to Health Insurance reform.

There is a big difference between Health Insurance and Health Care. American Health Care is indisputably, the best in the world. Health Care certainly doesn’t require a government take over and its trillion dollar price tag. Common sense, responsible Health Insurance reform can be accomplished without adding to the deficit. It's unfortunate that the President is letting politics get in the way of common sense and responsibility.