Congress is on recess and the debates about health care are raging. I’ve had them myself. It amazes me that people of means feel that all is well and therefore a change towards a national health plan that gives those members of society a safety net where they have none now, or allows those people with expensive or less than adequate plans a choice, and allows small business owners a new choice for their benefit packages.  It all makes sense to me, but not to others. 

In the press we hear about death discussions so that the fear is that all grandparents will be allowed to die, rather than give the treatments needed.  It seems that such would not be the design of the law and would not be tolerated if the law were interpreted that way once in place.  But presently the discussion is only based upon the trillions in extra dollars we will need to expend to support this plan and that the government will become the arbiter of who shall live and who shall die. 

I do not believe the plan will cost trillions extra, as the costs of the plans in place presently will continue to spiral for every American and looking back ten years from now over the then past ten years, the costs will be in the trillions.  So the new plan which will allow choice to some and a safety net for others will not be that expensive. 

But President Obama is not hitting his talking points.  The Republicans are and the debate has shifted.  First it shifted to the death of all grandparents, then it shifted to the financial costs, then it shifted to race relations and the White House Beer Party. 

President Obama must lead the way on the directed talking points to get the program liked by Congress and the populace. 

Stan