Side by Side Comparison of Health Care Proposals

Check out this website from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation that compares all the health care proposals debated over the last year from the point of view of a health care provider vice a single political party.  What it shows is that GOP and Democratic proposals were largely similar, but that the Republicans had good ideas about limiting medical malpractice awards and deregulating the medical insurance industry.

Where were those ideas during the debate?  Why didn't the Republicans go big and go public with those arguments and get them into this law?  I'll tell you why, because the Republicans were more interested in embarrassing the President and thwarting his political agenda than in actually helping the American people.  The Republican strategy was (and is) to sell out our medical future so that they can win a few paltry seats in the House and Senate.  Come On!

Who is representing the interests of the people, certainly not the Democrats, big government is never a good solution.  It's one of the reasons we have run away costs in medical care now (Medicare and Medicaid are over 30% of the Federal Budget...that's larger than the defense budget).  Now we can see the Republicans are more interested in their political health than healthcare reform in the nation.

Man, I wish the Republicans would just man up an be a good party again.