Health Care Passes Senate

Today the senate passed its version of Health Care Reform and now the difficult part is the reconciliation between the house and senate version. The reform measure as expected passed in the senate in a strictly partisan fashion with no Republicans voting for the bill. Before anyone gets too excited there are major disagreements between both versions of the bill and will take many weeks to iron out the differences.

The passage of the senate health care bill was messy and ripe with political corruption as various senators held out to very end until they received special treatment and major concessions that other states did not.

The real fundamental question of this health care reform measure if passed will it control costs and not add to the national debt. Right now I seriously doubt that it will control cost! No major piece of legislation has ever lived up to its initial projection.

Currently the assumption that the half trillion dollars in Medicare cuts will have be realized, and whenever has Congress been able to cut anything from Medicare. The variety of taxes that will be levied all across the U.S. economy will have to be able to meet expectations.

Whatever happens will have a major effect on the national security of this nation! Currently this health care reform measure is being rushed through without thinking of the long term consequences to the national debt and future generations.

This bill if signed by the president passes will not take effect until 2013, so then why the rush! Let’s take our time and get it right, if not then we will be settled with monstrous new entitlement that will have the opposite of what’s intended.