What is with Obama?

[JCL]

Originally Posted by GoVols!

Here is what I don't get and maybe this forum is a good place to ask. I understand why a majority of Obama's base wants this healthcare "reform" and that is because they think they will get something for nothing, paid for by the evil rich.

Now, since this is a BMW board, I would venture a guess that Obama and his base consider us all the "evil rich". My questions are: Why do those of you on here, who are by and large going to be footing the bill for this, support such "reform"? Why do you want to give away your hard earned money to pay someone else's bills? Is it guilt or something? If so, why don't those with means that feel guilty just donate to a hospital to help those with no money pay instead of trying to force all of us into mandatory charity??

So if I understand your position:

• Only those who are in Obama's camp want any healthcare reform
• People who want healthcare reform all want something for nothing, personally.
• The rich are all evil
• People who own BMWs, and those who post here, are the evil rich
• People who own BMWs will have to give away their hard-earned money to pay someone else's bills

Perhaps some of those who believe in healthcare reform just think that it is wrong to spend the most of any country on health care, with a very high percentage of GDP spent on health care, with such low performance from that system. The US is the only wealthy industrialized nation without universal access to health care. Yet you spend all this money on health care. So, there is interest in reform. There is a debate over the right to health care. And you bring it down to the evil rich? How is that going to advance the debate?

You are being gouged by your health insurance providers who are in it for profit, as they were set up to be. You have great doctors, and great technology, and great inventions, but you don't have great access or great efficiency. How about using some of that innovation to figure out how to serve more people for less money, instead of assuming that it is simply a cash grab.

Just a view from the cheap seats.