“DID YOU EVER HAVE TO FINALLY DECIDE?”

There is a song I remember from many years ago that asked the question, “Did you ever have to make up your mind?” The time has arrived with respect to health care. As President Obama said last week, “all the arguments have been made” while all the lies, innuendoes, half truths and fear mongering along with repeated explanations and denials have been laid out and either accepted or dismissed. The time has come for Congress to make up its mind and move on to other areas that await its attention.

Let’s be clear; I don’t like the current health care bill. It is too long, too complex, leaves many problems unsolved, provides insufficient payment to large numbers of physicians, and is neither “Universal” nor the single payer system that would eliminate most of the bureaucratic morass and allow physicians to return to the practice of Medicine.

There is no need for the complexity Congress has built into this legislation (Congress should think, “Occam’s Razor”), and it is likely to lead to enormous problems down the road. Still, it will accomplish things that are desperately needed. Only the Insurance lobby and a few “wing nuts” stand in the way now (if the Democrats ever get their act together), because they want more. More money, more power . . . more for them and to hell with the American people!

I don’t like this bill, but the time has come to prevent “perfect” from remaining the enemy of “good.” The time has come to make up your mind and vote. The time has come to leave the rhetoric behind and provide (at least, better) health care for our citizens so we can have one less thing to worry about and go back to work.

Let ALL incumbents beware; “WE, THE  PEOPLE” are watching!