Care Package
(Sept. 24, 2009) Editor:
I enjoyed the Journal’s presentation of several varying views of President Obama’s health care reform package (“Reform!?,” Sept. 17). Kudos!
However, I have issues with a few of the points brought up by Ron Ross in his article, “Many Questions, Few Answers.” While I agree Pres. Obama is all over the place right now with the proposal’s specifics — to an annoying degree, at that — I see no real alternative presented in this article.
Ross calls for more analysis into overhauling our health care system and for bipartisanship, but the reality has been one of many hard-line Republican members of Congress offering little in alternative plans and much in heavy, at times hateful and absurd, rhetoric.
I’m also curious what position Ross takes on Social Security and Medicare, two burdensome and bludgeoning government-run health programs threatening to drain the coffers of the next several generations before those kids are even born. In fact, I see few calls from the opponents of Pres. Obama’s proposal to completely abolish those two programs — an action that would align with the statist fear-mongering swirling about these days by opponents.
Believe me, I have my issues with Pres. Obama’s proposal, being wary of bureaucracy and all. But the claim by Ross that our privatized system sees people as “individuals” instead of “categories,” as a government-run bureaucracy would, is absolutely absurd. Pre-existing condition, anyone?
John Osborne, Arcata
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