Why I Don't Want The Healthcare Reform To Pass

I would love to see healthcare reform in America. You may or may not agree with me. Perhaps when your company starts laying people off or shutting its doors in 7 or 8 years because it can't afford to pay $25,000 per year per employee for health insurance, you'll decide it's time then.

Regardless, I don't have to know a single fact about this current healthcare bill to know that nobody should vote for it. Here is why.

Let's liken healthcare reform to designing and building a new passenger jet. If the federal government decided to come up with a design for a faster, lighter, quieter, cheaper passenger jet to compete with Boeing and Airbus, I haven't the slightest doubt they could do it within the given parameters. They would get together a bunch of highly-paid guys who know aircraft design better than anybody else to come up with a great design.

Now, the problem is that before being approved, a bunch of people who know little or nothing about aircraft design, and who want to stop the new jet from being built entirely are allowed to come along and make major design changes to the jet.

What is the likelihood that a jet with lots of parts missing, lots of parts redesigned or replaced, and lots of parts added on by people (including Boeing and Airbus themselves) who don't want to see the jet get off the ground... what is the likelihood that you would volunteer to get on that jet, assuming it even flew? What is the likelihood that the thing would be a total disaster?

Any healthcare reform that gets passed now: America will be stuck with it. Americans would be stuck flying on that busted-ass jet I just mentioned. That's not the best solution; that's the worst solution.

Put this healthcare bill in the trash. It's worthless and we should just forget about it. A huge portion of Americans aren't ready for healthcare reform anyway, because they've been suckered by talk of death panels and socialism and whatever other ridiculous talking points the opposition can dream up to scare and anger and mobilize voters. The rest of America will just have to suffer from their stupidity.

The fact is that Americans do indeed need to suffer first — and they need to obtain their proof through suffering — before they will agree to change their ways. They need to see family members go without needed medical care; they need to go broke paying their insurance premiums before they decide that government-sponsored health insurance is a good idea. They need to have a heart attack before they stop eating at McDonald's every day. They need to pay $8 for a gallon of gasoline before they'll be interested in alternative fuels. They need to see a major American city submerged under a high tide before they'll accept global warming is real. They need to have a bunch of buildings knocked down before they realize that militant Islam is a threat.

Right... that's enough ranting.

Anyway, wait around for a few more years. Republicans will eventually either start being pressured from their constituencies (the folks who are too ignorant or stubborn to make the changes today) to support healthcare reform as the insurance companies go more and more out of control, or equally likely, Republicans will become so inconsequential that what they think won't matter anyway. Regardless, at some point in the future, real healthcare reform, developed solely and responsibly by the experts, will be able to be passed. And, I think we can all agree, it will almost certainly work better than whatever is being considered right now.