EDITORIAL: Obama's plan is good, timing is wrong
President Obama and the Democratic Congress are diligently working on an overhaul of the health care system — one of Obama’s campaign promises — this week.
We who will probably live the rest of our lives scraping the bottom of the financial barrel, applaud and appreciate Obama’s drive for better, cheaper health care for all.
However, we worry that, despite how great it sounds, it may not be the right time for such a costly overhaul.
The New York Times reported last week that Obama’s plan could cost $1 trillion over 10 years. That’s about a thousand billions.
We’ve already spent over $800 billion stimulating the economy this year, as well as billions more on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We realize health care is important, but shouldn’t we budget out such an increase?
If we’re going to go with such an expensive plan, should we cut somewhere else, somewhere extraneous like, say, military spending? OK, OK, maybe now isn’t the time for that. Maybe we could cut the educational budget instead. Wait... that’s not a good idea either.
Oh! We get it. There’s nothing left to cut. So we have the choice of being uncomfortable for a few years, while a better system than we’ve ever had is installed, or whining
We who will probably live the rest of our lives scraping the bottom of the financial barrel, applaud and appreciate Obama’s drive for better, cheaper health care for all.
However, we worry that, despite how great it sounds, it may not be the right time for such a costly overhaul.
The New York Times reported last week that Obama’s plan could cost $1 trillion over 10 years. That’s about a thousand billions.
We’ve already spent over $800 billion stimulating the economy this year, as well as billions more on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We realize health care is important, but shouldn’t we budget out such an increase?
If we’re going to go with such an expensive plan, should we cut somewhere else, somewhere extraneous like, say, military spending? OK, OK, maybe now isn’t the time for that. Maybe we could cut the educational budget instead. Wait... that’s not a good idea either.
Oh! We get it. There’s nothing left to cut. So we have the choice of being uncomfortable for a few years, while a better system than we’ve ever had is installed, or whining
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