| With a New Congress and the campaigns | | | | every man, woman and child in the nation |
| for the Whitehouse in '08 in full swing, | | | | - would do nothing to solve problems of |
| both progressives and conservatives | | | | disparity in the healthcare system, or |
| agree that healthcare reform especially | | | | to curtail costs, or solve other access |
| as it regards affordable medical | | | | and delivery issues. |
| insurance is at the forefront of the | | | | For any of the current proposed |
| minds of most Americans. And while | | | | strategies by think tanks, health |
| legislatures and pundits on both sides | | | | insurance industry professionals, and |
| of the aisle agree that the time is now | | | | political figures to work, compromise is |
| for healthcare reforms, at what pace | | | | the watchword. And for what is perhaps |
| such changes occur is still an issue of | | | | the first time in decades there seems to |
| wide debate. Healthcare reform has been | | | | be a concerted effort and willingness on |
| an issue that has been approached much | | | | the parts of the federal government, the |
| like the taste of saliva in ones mouth, | | | | states, big business, and the insurance |
| when taken in little tiny doses overtime | | | | companies to work together to solve some |
| like it usually is, it doesn't bother us | | | | of these issues. True health reform |
| much at all, in fact we hardly notice it | | | | makes for some storage bedfellows. In |
| is there - but no one would like to sit | | | | theory of course who would oppose |
| down and drink a whole glassful. And | | | | universal health coverage? No one |
| many agree that hard-hitting and | | | | objects to a healthcare for all model, |
| sweeping changes to our current health | | | | the problem as always comes down to who |
| insurance polices and health delivery | | | | is going to pay for it. The |
| system will be equally hard to swallow, | | | | conservatives believe that tax breaks |
| by consumers as well as the healthcare | | | | and incentives to business hold the key, |
| and insurance industries. | | | | but as always progressive opponents say |
| Incremental steps seem to be the best | | | | such ideas only benefit the "healthy and |
| approach for all concerned, such as the | | | | the wealthy". Progressives embrace the |
| current push on both the federal and | | | | idea of a Medicare for all model, to |
| state levels to get cost effective | | | | which conservative opponents still yell |
| health insurance for all children. Good | | | | "Limited Choice" and "Socialized |
| first steps all agree. But the real | | | | Medicine". But if a true attempt to find |
| first step to true healthcare and health | | | | some middle ground is approached, as |
| insurance reform is to get a handle on | | | | current waves seem to be approaching, |
| just what exactly needs fixing. | | | | perhaps there is hope for a viable |
| Certainly the 47 million Americans | | | | solution that could bring real |
| without insurance is a good part of the | | | | healthcare reform and truly affordable |
| problem, but it is not the only problem. | | | | health benefits to all Americans within |
| Sweeping healthcare reform that could at | | | | the next 10 years as so many claim to be |
| the wave of a magic wand suddenly insure | | | | striving for. |