Colonel Taylor wrote:And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care?
I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture", a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance.
It is a culture based on the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me". Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.
Why ask the President? Why not ask the Republicans in Congress?
**They** are the ones who have spent the last three years protecting the "culture crisis" where people don't have to purchase health insurance.
The Republicans
had an alternative, right up until Obama adopted it. "ObamaCare", the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act (H.R. 676) :
a) Mirrors the RomneyCare plan.
b) Which was lauded by candidate John McCain.
c) Is very similar to a proposal made to candidate McCain by the Health Insurance lobby.
d) Is very similar to the Republican alternative to ClintonCare - the Republican's Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act of 1993.
e) Mirrors Bob Dole's plan from the 1990s.
If McCain had won the election he would have put forth the same plan. The press would have have labelled it "McCainCare", and the same Republicans who oppose it would instead endorse it. It was the solution for everything you're whining about.
You want everyone to have insurance? "Obamacare's" individual mandate - now reviled by Republicans as unconstitutional - does that. It was
Republican policy for 15 years until the very moment Obama adopted it. But don't take my word for it; let Newt Gingrich explain it, and why it solves your problem,
starting at 4:40.
The Republicans had a solution for your problem. Obama adopted it. What more do you want? Why do Republicans now insist on
keeping the problem you describe?