Wednesday, September 09, 2009

A Great Opportunity and Great Danger Tonight for Obama   [Victor Davis Hanson]

I think what most are asking about health-care reform are very simple questions — and which party that answers them best will gain public support.

1) How will it be funded, dollar out for dollar in, and who will pay for it and how?

2) Can the existing, rather-good system of medicine be extended to the 26-year-old off the parental COBRA plan at an affordable cost?

3) Can the out-of-work divorced spouse, with a preexisting medical condition at 45, suddenly without job-related coverage, return to the system without monthly premiums of over $600–700?

4) Can the poorer be persuaded to invest in a lower-cost plan and be diverted from showing up at the emergency room for a bad cold?

If Obama is wise, he will jettison the politicized agenda of his congressional albatrosses, whose agenda is first to grow more government and thereby more power for the political class through greater constituents, and simply try to take the existing system, honestly explain who falls through the cracks and why, and then how and where we can raise the money to allow others, now not in the system, to get coverage without bankrupting them or the nation. 

All this is not rocket science.

09/09 09:15 AMShare