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