All's Quiet on the Healthcare Front

It seems that the news media has quickly moved on to other items of interest leaving the very long term impact of healthcare reform to the practitioners and tax payers. Let's face it, most Americans don't even know the name of the laws costing them billions of dollars or the entertaining riders that continue to surface. The last 2,000 page document most people have completed was a Harry Potter book with far superior prose and plot to the Healthcare and Education Reconiliation Act of 2010 and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

As a free enterprise system, United States citizens often balk at big business that touches our lives intimately. We see the flaws in these profit based systems and want them to be different. Instead of letting demand determine change, throngs of people look to the government for their solution. Interestingly, our founding fathers did not even believe that our government should ever be our social solution. They should be protecting us and our borders, and their current execution in these areas is sketchy. The call for government (Where a majority vote determines the rule, if there is a vote.) to decide our fate truly identifies why we need to beware of stupid people in large groups. Now that we have this joyous bundle of legal mumbo-jumbo to organize our healthcare, I encourage you to learn about our new tax master. We will be paying for the next four years to set up these programs, so there is enough time to take a second shot at getting government to solve the problem. (Yes, I mean by deciding for your self, if legislators that voted for it need to be transitioned to a new career.)

There is something out there to learn from and shape a stronger solution. However, choosing to forget about this and move on to the current media topics will not put anything in place to make changes. I don't know about you, but I would never start paying payments today for a car I get in 2014.