health care

I did not watch Obama last night but the health care mess seems to be worse. The insincerity of all this is staggering. The concerns about health care in the government is not about the well being of the citizens, it is about the expense of their well being. The government has always bought votes and support by offering voters perks --like social security, health care, and prescription plans--without any notion or concern about the eventual outcome. Anyone can see now that those bills are becoming unmanageable and, rather than tell the truth and admit they were wrong (and stupid and insincere), they try to disguise the situation and persist in the fiction that this can be achieved. If they tell the truth they will leave many old people--who thought they would have health care--without anything and social security is next. Those guys vote. So the option the political class has chosen is to deny there is a general financial problem and pretend the problem is fraud, or poor care or the uninsured. There is no easy solution here. We have people who have not saved, have a lot of debt and are totally unprepared for managing their future lives. There will be a shell of social security and a shell of medical care but these shells will mean a significant change in our lives and our expectations. And this will mean scavenging the productive people for any spare income to support those who did not make the effort to support themselves. I see a contraction here in lifestyle and comfort, like what is beginning in Europe. Here's an article that talks, superficially, about the American health measurements we mentioned earlier. http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=332723342557746