At President Obama’s recent town hall meeting in Montana, a bona fide member of the NRA got up and asked the question that is, what I feel to be root of the issue, and the real reason many are so easily churned in to a frenzy over false reporting on health care reform.
“How are you going to pay for it?”
The problem President Obama has in answering this is, the answer isn’t entirely available yet. It’s the main issue being worked on in Congress, so he can only explain what’s been initially agreed upon throughout the various committees thus far.
Unfortunately, Americans can be a bit impatient when it comes to money questions, and are easily lead into speculations that lean to the negative side. So all sorts of radical thought is coming out of the extreme right as to why the President is keeping this information about how he’s going to pay for health care reform, secret.
But the truth is, the answers (and the final plan) aren’t coming from the President. Though he certainly may know more than the average American on what’s going into the bills, he can’t possibly know more than those who are actually working things out in the closed door committee sessions. And they don’t even know the end results yet.
So we can only take a leap of faith and conclude that the longer it takes to come out with real definitive answers on how health care reform will be inevitably paid for, the more we can reason that its not going to be taken as a trivial matter.
Congress wants to get it right. The President is patiently waiting for Congress to get it right. And so all we can do is wait in hopes that they all get it right, and health care reform becomes a reality.
Once the final bill is brought forward, the American citizenry will have plenty of time to pick through it before its voted on. So let’s give them time to nail down the details before we go spinning ourselves into conspiracy theories and doomsday scenarios, OK?
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