I mostly agree with you Rbt,

with some additions. IMO the whole Health Care Reform thing is more ideological than otherwise. In the same way

that the Left is using AGW to control energy policy/consumption, they're using Health Care as a power grab. The

authoritarian elitism of this administration is not satisfied with simple and effective reform, they're pushing a

far reaching agenda which will ultimately establish gov't control over every aspect of life.

Of course they

don't say this, but follow the policies and over-arching agenda to their logical conclusion and you'll see

coercion to be far more operative than freedom to choose. This is only one of the reasons why the Dems are pushing

this through in secret.

Our health care system does not suck if you look at what it accomplishes. The reform

necessary to correct its inherent flaws could be addressed in two simple ways: 1) Allow us to buy insurance across

state lines and 2) tort reform. There are other things as well, but these two would bring down both insurance and

delivery costs.

Addressing the fraud and waste in current entitlement programs should have been Obama's first

play if he was serious about HC reform. I agree with Bel on this point, what we do NOT need is another huge,

expensive, inefficient bureaucracy controlling 1/6 of our economy.