re: #1004 placeholder

Fair point. I just wish the argument was framed more in the context of a general federal government roll back. And not just about healthcare. This way it just smacks of disingenuousness… we’re ok with all the other spending…but not insuring the uninsured. NOW we’ve gone to far…

Its a strange point on which to make a stand against government spending.

-PH

You are correct. I left an important word out of this sentence - Why encourage them to spend more? the federal government has taken ON far too many things it never should have in the first place.

Changes the tone a bit. I think they should dump many of the things they’ve taken on. A good start would be the department of education $62B
budget. And what have they done to improve education over the last 30 years?

I also recall one of Obama’s campaign pledges was to evaluate federal programs and cut the ones that werenot working or were no longer necessary.

Still waiting on that. It would have been excellent PR move for them to do that BEFORE proposing a dozen or so new bureaucracies for the healthcare plan.

And again, it’s healthcare getting the pushback because it is huge, people know they need it, and it’s the first time in their lives something of this magnitude has been brought up.