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The Health Care Choice

By on December 29, 2011

I have been asked why my health care  blogging so frequently veers into presidential politics. The answer is simple. There is a fairly straightforward choice right now: one party wants to repeal what has been passed in the past three years and the other wants to hang on to it. Until that is sorted out, nothing new will occur.

I wish it was not so cut and dried, because what is there is not what is needed. It is a start of sorts.  We are also waiting for the Supreme Court to decide on the Reform Law and either rule it unconstitutional because it violates states’ rights or give it a thumbs up because it touches on matters of interstate commerce which Congress has the right to decide.

Meanwhile the costs of Health Care are continuing to go up as we saw with the prosthetic hip debacle, Health Care coverage is still largely tied to employment for the majority of Americans, benefits are being trimmed and attacked in public sector jobs and private. Young people increasingly have no coverage or inadequate coverage.

This is a situation that cannot be parked for very long before it is back out in the streets. Until it gets moving again, the crisis in America continues and deepens, even as implementation of the state exchanges for the moment creeps forward. We hope that one of the candidates next year will address all this in a serious way, but it clearly will not be the main issue as long as the economy remains so precarious and the voters are so confused.

Tom Godfrey

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