by Neil Licht

Created on: August 19, 2009   Last Updated: January 24, 2010

Now taht we have voted in Ma and sent the 41st vote to the Senate, the landscape has changed dramatically on what and if healthcare will be reformed at all.

Health Care is not the issue at all, not anymore. It's government running a delivered service that is the issue. Government run fixes seem to miss the mark because they are not aimed at the causes of the problems and repairing them. You can not fix what broken if you don't know why it's broken and where it's broken. I don't think this reform will end the $200 aspirin in hospitals do you? Yet that's the real culprit isn't it?

We just spent trillions to prop up businesses that caused their own failures. Why didn't we let them fail? Has our cash infusion helped us regular folks in any recognizable way? Has it given us more purchasing power? No it has not so the engine of recovery - us spending money is still sputtering on empty. Didn't anyone stop and thing what all those trillions, if divided amongst every American adult evenly would have given each of us in cash and purchasing power? We probably would not have seen our government do that but isn't the objective in any cash management plan run by our government like the recent bailouts supposedly to create buying and spending power at the average person's level? It didn't do that did it?

Perception is fact and perception is that our government is not a great planner, reformer and definitely not a great investor or cash manager. We have not seen any ROI on our government's giant spending plan except maybe the ability to trade in our cars while we concurrently destroy the source for cheap and affordable starter cars that kids, young parents or folks just getting by depend on. Kind of ridiculous isn't it?

So, health care managed in any way by our government does not create a feeling of probable success.

Yes, health care is way too expensive. But have we really figured out why? Have we really figured out why one pain killing pill in a hospital costs $200? Why an anti cancer drug injection costs us $5000 each shot? No we have not and that's why health care reform will not make any real changes to its cost. And cost is what we will pay via taxes, add-ons, no covered co pays because this reform merely transfers the administration of the process and never goes after the real issue the $200 aspirin and the $5,000 cancer chemo injection.

Its not reform at all, its simply a cost transfer under a different accounting-accounts receivable-accounts payable department.

So, the congressional non debate, oops I mean serious discussion about reform completely misses the target reform.

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