@revel,
revel, Obama's health care plan isn't doing well for many reasons including his inability to provide cost savings vs increased costs for companies and taxpayers. You can't add 30-million more beneficiaries to health care without showing how they plan to reduce costs. Most plans I've seen so far adds almost a trillion dollars to cost; where's the savings?
Cutting $450 billlion from Medicare is not cost savings; it's something they should have acted on long ago, because they now claim it's wasted through fraud and overpayment of fees.
The math just doesn't work out for me; even having the wealthy pay more in taxes as our deficit continues to grow just doesn't make sense. They should be working to pay down the debt; not adding more costs and increasing the debt.
Yes, we need health care reform, but Obama missed many opportunities to cut costs through efficiencies and studies on testings and the sloppy use of drugs.
I'm disappointed.