Surely we could find something that we need and believe. What in the bill assures that the supply of quality medical care and services will increase to drive costs down? What part of Obama’s plan for redistribution of health care are we to love? What part of the plan has proven its ability to “bend the cost curve” without breaking anything we like about the current “system?” What in the bill breaks down the barriers to cost reduction and improves the competition between insurance companies? What emergency measures will it construct to make the failures of the status quo magically vaporize?

Does it reduce the overhead of mal practice suits? Does it make doctors and nurses work longer hours for less pay? Does it motivate chronically overweight folks, chronic drug and alcohol abusers or drivers with demonstrated dangerous driving records to change their lifestyle decisions? Does it make hospitals and MRI machines cost less to build and operate? Please show me something that requires less than miraculous faith to believe!

We know that if you make the food lines long enough, you need less food because fewer survive to the front of the line … but that grim reality is hardly “change to believe in.”

I know at least one thing we can believe. If Obama doesn’t want his daughters “punished by a baby,” he is bound to want to assure they are not punished by unwanted medical bills from those that have “had a good life.” Trust him … he meant it.

EnjoyIt … What ever IT is.