Overall review of the health care summit

[AztecWilliam]

Very interesting. The Republicans did well, I think. For that matter, he Democrats spoke well also. What I was disappointed in is that some of the issues that most concern me about the Obama/Democrat proposal were not discussed. (I missed about the first hour of the discussion, by the way.)

I am concerned that physicians who are specialists will be penalized if they are in the top ten percent with respect to money spent on patients. That is despite the fact a given doctor's expenditures may all have been totally justifiable from a medical standpoint. To call that a meataxe remedy would be an understatement.

If you have a bill well over 2000 pages in length you can be sure that there are a lot of very nasty surprises contained therein which will come to light only after the whole thing becomes law. That is something like a naval mine lurking just a fathom beneath the surface waiting for an unsuspecting ship to collide with it.

I have no doubt that all members of Congress debating the health care/insurance are sincere and want to do good. But the Democrats, as usual, badly overestimate their ability to transform the country in ways that do not include built-in unanticipated consequences of a negative nature.

AzWm

[ptsdthor]

Was that Hugo Chavez in attendance....? Coulda swore I was watching "Aló Presidente".

[aztecwin]

I worry when a bunch of politicians of either party think that they can cobble together a bill that does not include the views of health care professionals. This issue is best taken on one item at a time and then access the effect in my opinion.

[aztecwin]

Here is a view of what a Conservative observed.
www.redstate.com/erick/2010/02/25/the-sham-wow-summit/

People are getting real fed up with Obama, but this guy pulls no punchs at all. He calls Obama some pretty strong things.

[AztecWilliam]

I have to believe that the average American, of whatever party, who worries about the problems of the day but is not a hard-core Rep. or Dem., probably came away with a much more positive view of the Republican position on health care reform. There were a lot of points raised by the Reps that were not well rebutted by the Dems.

I guess that Obama thought this would be a huge political plus for him (I totally discount the possibility that he actually wanted to bring the two sides together), but my suspicion is that the result was the opposite.

AzWm