So Tell Me What Do You Propose?

Everyone suddenly points to government as the source of their impoverishment or lack of needed services. Pulling out costs that may exist or stating "hidden costs" in government programs lacks the power of evidence to make it stand up to the barest criteria for either a legal or scientific basis.

It is not government programs that have ignited this present crisis in the economy or health care. So if we remove Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, and the Indian Health Service from the equation what is your solution to reform health care? Obviously you are aware that I think a updated and improved governmental program is necessary. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to promote the general welfare. Health care access and affordability(health insurance) falls into this catagory and should not belong to free enterprise. I am not saying the deliverers of care should not be private and entrepreneurial but this also demands strong ethics on their part or there should be strong penalties. It is time for those opposed to government intervention to put their cards on the table. So far the proposals increase the bottom line of what we pay for health care and continue the slow decline of the general business of this nation. People overwhelmingly want reform in this country. You will have to tell me how the history of the HMO movement and other private insurances have proven their value to this country. There is no there there.