Give me Fair-Care, COME ON!

Update -- July 29, 2009

Fraud is a crime the president does not need congressional authority to ask the Attorney General to investigate. If the president suggests that there is fraud occurring within the Medicare system, then he should pick up the phone or email the the Attorney Generals Office to arrest and charge those responsible today: he did say fraud. Is this welfare fraud? Who is fraudulently taking money that is suppose to benefit Medicare patients?


Monday morning and the white noise is going to start our day here in the U.S. Pushy agendas on every news outlet will have health care, including the net, at the top of the play list. The Democrats are scheduled not to shot themselves in the foot and pass some form of health care reform. Unless.

The recession has been declared over but the pain remains the same. The talk this Monday will be about lagging indicators and the importance of cautious optimism. Now that the economy is doing well people will hesitate to embrace reform that threatens that recovery; maybe. For those that need and hope for insurance reform the tension over this issue will raise but for investors the tension will ease up a bit. I know America, what we want is a recovery and the single payer plan for health care or some kind of reform.

Can we have a recovery and health care reform in unison?

What I hope happens is that the Democrats pass a well thought out health care plan and that the recovery will quickly bring along with it jobs. This economic recovery put a damper on President Obam's assertion that costs associated with health care are holding back the economy from recovery. It looks like the economy is doing better with out any drastic measures needing to take place. If we want to pass health care reform it looks like the economy has got to be in the dump. That is until health care reform is passed and then it jumps right back up magically to where we need it, the DOW for example, to indicate. After all we don't want to pass health care reform and then have the economy get worse, right.

So, America, how much pain can we take?

On the one hand individuals are sinking under the weight of health care costs and on the other thousands of people each day are losing their jobs and a recovery could mean those people get jobs and can afford to buy homes, food, etc.

This is an emergency and the democracy gives the office of the presidency special powers to compensate for certain dangers or threats. If health care reform is passed despite the recovery then god bless but consider taking bold actions.

Go to whitehouse.gov and read up on the emergency measures that the president has already passed to make the lives of those losing their jobs a little easier by, for example, extending COPRA. Are those measures enough to solve the problems of the under insured? A

Put the fifty million people that need health care coverage on medicare temporarily or give them medicare coverage. This world be an emergency measure not a permanent solution that would only last for one or two years. By all means, however, fix the fraud and waste while your at it. Consider using the Safeway plan and many other of the Republican suggestions for the next year as additions to the Obama plan not as alternatives. If after a year the consensus is that the measures are working to alleviate the tensions associated with health care reform then continue the good work but if not then try something different.

The big question is how will the president pay for the reforms his administration proposes. The white noise is drowning out the details of many of the plans being proposed.

Let me just just say this one last thing. If you don't fallow my suggestions then at least let us know what can we, not as a country but as individuals, expect to pay each and every month for health care?

Rafael Buelna


P.S. You should read my latest fiction.