Well, he's moving onto new legislation with another one of his liberal buddies. Apparently, he has moved onto other Democratic issues. According to this article, he is now working with Russ Feingold to provide legislation that would provide state run health coverage for all citizens of select states. This would be the beginning of nationalized health care. Did we not try this back in the 90’s and it went down in defeat because the American public does not want it?
Feingold said he, along with South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, is authoring a bill that would take $40 billion and offer a few pilot states the chance to offer health care coverage for all its citizens. Ideally, this could be a precursor to a national health care system.
"Everybody believes that their vision of how to do it will work," Feingold said. "But nobody's ever seen it done. We would have several different programs competing, so we can see what works best and get universal coverage.
“The Feingold-Graham bill would start a process that would make that much more likely to happen."
Why would we relinquish control of the free market place to an organization that is the most inefficiently run entity out there? What does the government do well? They do not exist to provide the best service possible; they exist to spend all of their budgetary dollars, so they get increases for the next budgetary period.
How about tort reform instead? Oh that’s right, ole Lindsey is a lawyer. The single reason that medical expenses are so high is to cover liability insurance costs which are directly related to covering the costs of excessive and frivolous lawsuits. Insurance companies covering this liability are not charities; they are companies in the business to make a profit.
Medical insurance is not a God given right. Everybody has the right to just pay the bills. Insurance exists to prevent cover yourself against excessive costs; they do not exist to pay your total medical tab. That concept somehow got lost over the years leading us to this ‘crisis’.
Again Lindsey is supposedly doing what is in our best interest, despite the fact we don’t want it. Does he not realize, we know he is doing this for votes and avoiding the true reform that needs to occur?