Bending the Cost Curve = Wa Wa Wa, Wa Wa Wa Wa Wa (Charlie Brown grown up style talking)

President Obama and everyone in his administration should never use the following phrase again, “it's going to bend the cost curve down.” It's the worst talking point of all time. Who cares about cost curve? How are people supposed to relate to a cost curve? Are you telling me that people are sitting around the kitchen table talking about bending the cost curve down? No people sit around the table and worry about how they are going to pay their bills.

If you want some great information on the health care debate, be sure to read Zandra's excellent piece for the Slam.  Over the holidays when talking politics several people mentioned things they learned from that piece.  You need to check it out.  Anyway, the entire healthcare debate should have been debated from a perspective of strengthening the American economy. The bill should have provided a boost to small business by insuring all Americans and restoring competition to help small businesses compete with big businesses. Since healthcare is a personal as well as an economic issue, the bill could have been made to lower premiums for working families and provide health care to those who can’t afford it.

The bill could have made our American businesses more competitive with businesses around the world by providing healthcare to workers and therefore enabled American companies to compete with foreign companies. The President and Congress should have focused on explaining how their plan would reduce the cost of health care by providing competition and incentives in the marketplace for keeping costs down. They also could've come up with a good plan. They didn't do any of these things.

A Moral Issue

Healthcare for all Americans is not just an economic issue is also a moral issue and I saw very little of this argument put forth by the Democrats. It is immoral that small children can't get adequate health care because their parents are poor. All children should be covered in the United States. We need to take care of our kids. That's how you get it done.