Health Care Hang-Up

Going into the State of the Union address, President Obama's approval rating was less than 50 percent, and Congress's overall approval rating was much lower. One of the reasons for this was that fact that policymakers have not been able to pass a health care policy that most of the public agrees with. The bill that is currently in the Senate is quite different from the one that passed in the House a couple months ago, and Speaker of the House Pelosi says that the Senate version of the bill is unlikely to pass without change in the House again. Pelosi stated recently that a preferred option among many members of Congress may be to scale back legislation from the $1 trillion plan over 10 years that it is at the moment. The American people of tired of spending that does not result in a noticeable change, and the plan as it is could just be another piece of legislation along the lines of unwanted and/or unnoticeable change. It seems that it is truly a time, if not the time for legislators to step back and look at what they have done and what they need to do. Right now, it's not time to worry about reelection and the race for a majority (which seems to be the continual theme of Congress), rather, it is a time for reevaluation of what the American people actually want. Before spending $1 trillion of money that we don't actually have, and will have to borrow, Congress should make compromises between both sides and not just try to push one-sided legislation through the floor. The last thing we want to do is rely on China for more money than we already have to, and have that money pay for legislation that doesn't even do what it was supposed to do. Create promises, meet those promises, and borrow intelligently. The link to the article is here.