Michael1942's Blog

Recently a European correspondent with NPR commented on the ease and relatively inexpensive cost of healthcare in Europe. The cost is graduated according the income of the person contributing. Apparently what the current President is attempting to achieve is a Healthcare system modeled along the same lines. Our erstwhile Congress is unable to see beyond race, place of birth or perhaps the support of big insurance. I do not completely understand the full scope of the European system however if it is a working system, perhaps we Americans should be pushing our representatives to look a bit closer at it. These representatives have no qualms in jetting anywhere for research they want but to do a research job on something that could be of benefit to their constituents is seemingly not high on their list. I submit that if our Congress spent more time, money and effort in looking into issues for the benefits of the voters we would be in a better fiscal position than we are now. Presidents have come and gone but most of Congress remains. The blame for the events of the past number of years falls squarely on the shoulders of these long-term members of Congress. This is not to suggest that the European model is perfect and should be adopted in total but it is an idea that has a decent track record even though it is now showing the beginnings of some financial problems. It is possible that a blend of the two with what works kept in place and what doesn’t work removed. There will always be detractors and advocates for any proposed plan but without a sincere effort we will still have an imperfect system that barely works.