Health Care Reform

I am so confused. Early in the debate about health care, rising costs were cited as the main reason for attempting this massive change. But most people seemed to realize the government does nothing more efficiently and cheaper than private business.

And when people wondered why we should pay MORE for health care, the focus seemed to change to covering the uncovered. So we have this monstrous law to cover a few million. The largest number I've heard in connection with the uncovered is 32 million.

So to cover these 32 million, the rest of us will now pay higher premiums and more taxes. This will cost huge amounts, huge!

Of course, the government says it will not, but who believes that? Everything the government does costs more than they expected - why should this project be different? And what are they counting?

We need to hire 16.5 thousand new IRS jobs? How much will that cost over several years? And how much fun will that be? How many dollars per giggle?

How many more clerks, processers, and other paper pushers will be needed in government? And since it is government, you gotta count how many are needed and then double it. How much will that cost? They, too, will be paid by taxpayers.

So here's my real question - why are we doing all this to cover 32 million people? Where's the common sense in that?

Why not take 32 million and just buy health insurance for the 32 million uncovered? It should be enough to cover them for their lifetimes. Got 'em covered; saved billions. Common sense.

OofDah!