Obama certainly does. His speech only spoke about regulating the insurance industry so it would not drop long-term sick clients. This would increase the costs all around and do nothing whatsoever for the ten-plus per cent of the total population who have no health cover at all. As for McCain, he is a Republican. I expect nothing from him.
Nonetheless, change must come. The current situation in America is simply untenable, and, in spite of the enormousness of private health, state and federal public programs are still ballooning out of control. My guess is that it will take a future conservative president, becoming convinced by the facts - like Peel became convinced that the Corn Laws were untenable, or Nixon that the US could not afford to have no relations with Communist China - to drive real, substantial change. As it is, the United States of America are wasting a tremendous amount of money, sapping both public accounts and the welfare of individual families, for no good reason, and at the same time disgracefully encouraging that atmosphere of sneering incomprehension that drives Europe and the rest of the world away from them.
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Date: 2008-09-05 01:31 pm (UTC)Nonetheless, change must come. The current situation in America is simply untenable, and, in spite of the enormousness of private health, state and federal public programs are still ballooning out of control. My guess is that it will take a future conservative president, becoming convinced by the facts - like Peel became convinced that the Corn Laws were untenable, or Nixon that the US could not afford to have no relations with Communist China - to drive real, substantial change. As it is, the United States of America are wasting a tremendous amount of money, sapping both public accounts and the welfare of individual families, for no good reason, and at the same time disgracefully encouraging that atmosphere of sneering incomprehension that drives Europe and the rest of the world away from them.