Quick Fix - The Trouble With the Health Care System

[lisa]

An article appeared in the July 22 issue Associated Press National about the present health care crisis and the measures being taken by President Obama and the congress to fix it. Obama claims that the costs of Medicare and Medicaid are the "driving force behind our federal deficit, " and that these programs need to be restrained in order to bring the national debt under control.

However, there is a struggle between trying to cap spending on these programs and control the growth of the deficit, and the follow through on obama's long time promise of health care coverage for everyone. A solution being considered before congress is higher taxes. However, it is unclear as to which income segments of the population will have to assume the burden.

In reading this article, it is apparent that no one really knows the one solution that will solve the problems of the health care system. Solutions to this problem are being proposed and debated before congress, but no one so far has found the magical cure. (Pardon the lapse into medical terminology)

As a society, Americans want their problems to be solved quickly. We go to fast food places and expect our order to be ready within minutes. We constantly seek after and purchase faster computers that will perform our downloading and internet surfing at greater speeds.

We become impatient if the guy driving ahead of us slows his vehicle for whatever reason. In many cases, our expectation for an instant and favorable outcome is rewarded. Under these circumstances, the virtue of patients is lost.

This is evident in the 55 percent approval rating the president is receiving. New Jersey 2nd District The American people want quick and drastic change to the health care system, and because it is not happening, they are growing impatient with the government. We want health care to become more affordable and accessible right now.

We at politivote would suggest that the health care crisis took time to materialize, and so, it will take time to resolve. There will doubtless be many pieces of legislation before congress that will purport to solve the crisis, and this legislation will be debated, amended, and/or abandoned. We at politivote believe that a rush to judgment on how our political leaders are handling the crisis is premature and ignores its complexity.