Impeding changes to our Health Care system

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Originally Posted by classicman

There is always a good time to make a positive change. .....This is huge and for the administration to come out and put a deadline on when this "has to be done" is foolish to me. If you think it should be done right then that should be the goal, not just getting something done by a certain date for what appears to be political reasons.
Thats BS.

It's been 15 years since the last time anyone talked about fixing health care in the US. If this doesn't get done now, while the Obama horse is still charging out of the gate, it simply isn't going to get done during his term. His administration, like all administrations, will get bogged down and run out of steam. Most likely, after Obama, the pendulum will swing back to the Republicans, who won't bring up health care reform. So it won't come up again until the Democrat after that. Perhaps in 16 years. Basically, it's a situation where we fix it now, or we wait another 16 years before bringing it up again. The question is, if you really believe there are huge problems with the US health care system, would you rather rush to fix them now, or let those problems exist for the next 16 years and be facing the same difficult prospect of fixing it then? That's the choice the country faces.