Colision Course With Reality

The only sure thing in the healthcare debate is that we as a people have surrendered any demand that the economic model that is used in providing healthcare make sense.
The result is that we have a system that costs us up to twice as much as any other system in the world.
What we have is a smorgasbord of options and charges that allow all sorts of little tyrants to build their fiefdoms of influence and absurd compensation. There is a reason that Doctor A does not talk to Doctor B, that lab A will not use the findings of lab B, and so on and so on.
Add to that the most absurd system of payment that could possibly be built; insurance company clerks deciding who gets care and who does not, what is paid for and what is not, and you end up with a system that will, unchecked, destroy this country within the next quarter of a century.
Why will it do so? Because some people listened to one line from Ronald Reagan and turned it into both a political philosophy and a religion. "Government is the problem!!"
Now, with religious fervor, these people have set about to ensure the destruction of our country by not allowing the only entity able to set us on a sustainable course to function.
Relative to money and product, there are two types of businesses. One is labor intensive(most of the expenses are for labor), and the other is capital intensive(labor is not a high percentage of expenses).
Labor intensive businesses are going to continue dropping their health insurance benefits on a massive scale. There is no way that most of them can stay in business otherwise. Most of the businesses that have left the country are labor intensive. Most small businesses are labor intensive.
We finally have an administration willing to take the body punches and attempt to do something about this road to destruction that we travel with all the self assurance of the king with no clothes, and the Reagan air heads will have nothing of it. The language is vile and filled with illusions from blood running in the street to the death camps of Hitler.
We have made it thus far as a country because we got a good start and we have changed when change was necessary. The government even went so far as to wage war on dissenters in the 1860's. We have amended the Constitution on several occasions and we have passed laws that spread the blessings of liberty to women, Native Americans, and people visibly identifiable as having Negro blood. We have changed our immigration policies so that northern Europeans were not given preference beyond other groups.
We can treat this problem of the rising cost of healthcare as a bump in the road, or we can let it destroy us. Gone unchecked, it will do the latter. Ronald Reagan was not the problem. The problem lies with people who do not know how to integrate a thought into their total life experiences and philosophies.