Republicans are set to meet with Obama in another Q&A forum, this time focusing specifically on Health Care. After all their big talk, these muldoons better come to the table with something more constructive than just, “Let’s SLOW DOWN the process!!”. The GOP is obviously big into  slowing things down. They’re like that one hulking kid in your elementary school English class with the unibrow and pre-pubescent mustache that took five hours to finish a paragraph out of Johnny Tremain. Aside from their affinity for sloth-like progress however, their actual PLANS are about as substantial as hickory smoke. Moreover, if you break down some of the basic aspects of their approach to Health Care, it’s always the insurance companies that benefit the most.

For instance, as a way to encourage competition, Republican members of Congress want to make it easier for insurance companies to sell their policies across state lines. However, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (a leading insurance watch group)–this provision would erode many state government consumer protections and could actually lead to higher premiums for some people. Moreover, if insurers can sell beyond state lines, it would stand to reason that consumers would be attracted to the least comprehensive policies because they’d be cheapest, thus, leaving many people inadequately covered.

Truthfully, the Republicans aren’t interested in ‘reform’ of any kind. Their idea of ‘reform’ are minute policy changes, like changing medical malpractice laws to slow the growth of premiums, which is like trying to stop a forest fire with a thimble full of water. These types of proposals do virtually nothing when it comes to supplying all Americans with proper coverage. The thing is, they simply don’t care about most Americans and the ones they do care about (donors, lobbyist, and corporate scum) have no problem buying their own insurance. 

This is what makes people like Sarah Palin who mock Obama’s agenda as “hope-y and change-y” so infuriating, they just don’t have one whit of empathy to the plight of the average citizen. The irony is, the majority of their support comes from working class, under-educated nimrods who are attracted to their platform based solely on moral and faith based ideologies.

As I’ve said time and time again, the only way to get Health Care through is for the Obama administration to ram it through, otherwise, it’ll just be more of the same quibbling and bibbling with the GOP and the end result will be a big nothing. Of course, this can only work if Democrats seriously believe in the cause, which is a big if. Personally, I think they’re just as much in the pockets of the insurance lobbyists as the Republicans are.

In the end, this ‘Q&A’ will just wind up being an exercise in pointlessness as it’s not going to amount to a hill of beans as far as actually helping the American people is concerned.