Posted by
Burorambo on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:43:49 AM
We want to create a national medical insurance program for the benefit of low and middle income families who can not now obtain subsidized medical care. To pay for a national medical insurance program, we would have to (a) raise their taxes along with everyone else's, (b) lower medical costs (c) make people who can afford medical insurance pay also for someone else, (d) take money from other entitlements and programs, and/or (e) borrow against the possible future earnings of our children. (a) sticks it to the people who can't afford it now, (c) is just unfair, (d) is unlikely, and (e) is just dumb. That leaves (b). We can't raise the river. Why aren't we doing a better job lowering the bridge?