The health care debate in the last few months makes me wonder if the government is really capable of creating reform that could actually fix health care. You hear people who are for health care say it will save money yet the only thing they use as a cost savings example is the plan to reduce the amount of money that the government pays for medical services under Medicare. And how is that going to reduce the cost of the health care industry? And why do independent analysis predict that the costs related to the current health care bill is going to be much higher than the government says it will.

You have conservatives riding a wave of protests to stall and possible change the health care bill but what are their plans to fix the system? What plans can the conservatives offer to reduce the cost of health care so people don't think that they need a government plan.

You have the far left screaming that there can be no health care plan without a government plan. This makes me wonder if they are more concerned about providing affordable health care for people, or getting government control over another aspect of our lives.

And then there is President Obama who more and more seems like he doesn't really care what the bill does just as long as he can claim a victory by signing a health care reform bill. To calm down the furor over the government option plan he suggests that he would be OK to drop the government option. But when his far left base cried foul, he reversed again and said a government option was his preferred plan. So which is it? That and the way he tried to force a Democrat plan through Congress before they or the public had time to find out what was in it.

This just leads me to believe that first and foremost, the Obama administration just wants to expand the government.

- Thomas Paine 2

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