| And while legislatures and pundits on both | | | | access and delivery issues. |
| sides of the aisle agree that the time is now | | | | |
| for healthcare reforms, at what pace such | | | | For any of the current proposed strategies by |
| changes occur is still an issue of wide | | | | think tanks, health insurance industry |
| debate. Healthcare reform has been an issue | | | | professionals, and political figures to work, |
| that has been approached much like the taste | | | | compromise is the watchword. And for what is |
| of saliva in ones mouth, when taken in little | | | | perhaps the first time in decades there seems |
| tiny doses overtime like it usually is, it | | | | to be a concerted effort and willingness on |
| doesn't bother us much at all, in fact we | | | | the parts of the federal government, the |
| hardly notice it is there - but no one would | | | | states, big business, and the insurance |
| like to sit down and drink a whole glassful. | | | | companies to work together to solve some of |
| And many agree that hard-hitting and sweeping | | | | these issues. True health reform makes for |
| changes to our current health insurance | | | | some storage bedfellows. In theory of course |
| polices and health delivery system will be | | | | who would oppose universal health coverage? |
| equally hard to swallow, by consumers as well | | | | No one objects to a healthcare for all model, |
| as the healthcare and insurance industries. | | | | the problem as always comes down to who is |
| | | | going to pay for it. The conservatives |
| Incremental steps seem to be the best | | | | believe that tax breaks and incentives to |
| approach for all concerned, such as the | | | | business hold the key, but as always |
| current push on both the federal and state | | | | progressive opponents say such ideas only |
| levels to get cost effective health insurance | | | | benefit the "healthy and the wealthy". |
| for all children. Good first steps all agree. | | | | Progressives embrace the idea of a Medicare |
| But the real first step to true healthcare | | | | for all model, to which conservative |
| and health insurance reform is to get a | | | | opponents still yell "Limited Choice" and |
| handle on just what exactly needs fixing. | | | | "Socialized Medicine". But if a true attempt |
| Certainly the 47 million Americans without | | | | to find some middle ground is approached, as |
| insurance is a good part of the problem, but | | | | current waves seem to be approaching, perhaps |
| it is not the only problem. Sweeping | | | | there is hope for a viable solution that |
| healthcare reform that could at the wave of a | | | | could bring real healthcare reform and truly |
| magic wand suddenly insure every man, woman | | | | affordable health benefits to all Americans |
| and child in the nation - would do nothing to | | | | within the next 10 years as so many claim to |
| solve problems of disparity in the healthcare | | | | be striving for. |
| system, or to curtail costs, or solve other | | | | |