WH Official: ’100 Days’ Left to Do Health Reform

If health-care reform doesn’t happen this year, it WILL pass after the 2010 elections, because there won’t be enough Rrpublican’ts left to stop it or anything else. Wake up GOP. Help fix this country or be prepared for one party rule. The American people are watching. And an overwhelming majority support the President.

Nice to see a bit of realism from the government. Health care is too important to stall for months and then try to rush it through at the last minute. The Administration is quite rightly pushing them to start NOW so it can be put through a thorough deliberative process. The stimulus had to be rushed through in a month (yes, a month is what passes for a rush from Congress). If healthcare likewise turns into a rush, the Administration has now made it quite clear which branch’s fault it will be.

Rick (and anbody else) – Where does the money come from to pay for this without taking the government any furter into debt? Remeber when Obama took office the debt of the government was roughly $10.6 Trillion and at his current planned rate of spending in four years it is estimated by the Congressional Budget Office that he will double this number. The government does not have this money and if it is borrowed the interest alone will take almost every dime collected in taxes.
A right to health care and other basic needs such as food, clothing, and shelter do not appear in any of America’s founding documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights. Moreover, our rights, properly understood, are not granted by these founding documents. Rather, these documents were intended to limit the power of government and to safeguard our rights and freedoms. When government gets involved in health care—in legislating who gets it, how it’s used, and who’s going to pay for it—government is actually limiting our rights and diminishing our freedom to access the health care we want.
You as an individual have the responsibility to provide your health care, food, and housing. None of these documents written by the founding fathers give the government the role of providing these items for you (Article 1 section 8 expictly states what the powers of Congress are). The entitlement programs in this country have gotten so far out of hand that it is crazy. These programs (are not authorized by the constitution as the word “welfare” as used by our founding fathers does not mean social welfare which is a relativly new meaning of the word) were originally meant to provide a resting place in life while you made changes to allow you to move on with your life. But with the entitlement programs the incentive to move on is gone and we have people who have spent decades milking the system and not being productive. If these people want to remain on these programs then it is time for them to get to work, there are lots of jobs being performed by illegal aliens in this country that these people on entitlement programs could be performing. It would get them actual work experience and a start up the ladder to having a better job. I started out over 45 years ago picking crops in the summer and then washing dishes in a restaurant during high school. I never went to collage but did attend a trade school which enabled me to have a successful career which was all responsible due to the work ethics I learned from my first jobs, lowly and unskilled as they were.