The New York Times has shown itself to be a public propaganda machine for the Democratic party in this editorial. They are agreeing with the Democrat proposal 100%. Very disappointing.
Health care desperately needs reform to control costs and a national solution is the right way to go, yet the Democrat proposals will not control costs, rather they will expand the deficit and debt dramatically as the Congressional Budget Office has stated. None of this seems to matter to the Times as they exert editorial clout to line up with TeamObama.
Why Folks Are Upset
Millions of people are upset with the hurry-up process that TeamObama has taken, not so much because they are against health care reform. They simply do not trust government to get this right when the Democrat strategy has been to move it fast without the understanding, let alone the buy-in, of average Americans who are being asked to pay more for it. This is a terribly flawed approach and has been correctly exposed as wrong, if not duplicitous. Exposing one more event that destroys trust, the Wall Street Journal opines about Sen. Dodd's 'secret' health care bill.
Extremely partisan Republicans are taking every opportunity to capitalize on the likely failure of TeamObama to pass his domestic agenda. That's also a lousy approach to needed reform. Why can't grown men and women in Congress do the right thing?
Incremental Change is a Better Solution
This grand plan of ObamaCare is not the right approach. I think significant changes in our health care system should be made incrementally. For example, adding 40+ million uninsured to insurance plans seems to me to presume they will also be expected to choose a primary care physician if preventive medicine is a goal of reform that is intended to lead to cost containment. If that's true, where will we find these physicians? Will ObamaCare redirect the medical careers of thousands of doctors to accommodate the influx?
Reform the Medical Malpractice Industry Immediately
A good place to make an important change would be reform of the "medical malpractice industry" to take lawyers out of the business of unnecessarily increasing the costs of insurance for doctors. There are other ways to protect patients' rights to compensation when mistakes are made. The free-for-all created by lawyers trying to extract massive jury awards for their own benefit should be curtailed immediately.
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