Fix gov’t with more gov’t?

While President Obama is a gifted speaker and salesman, his health care speech was very much lacking in substance.

Obama says there is so much waste and fraud in Medicare that the savings from eliminating this waste could help pay for 30 million to 40 million people to become insured through the “public option” of his healthcare plan. Both Medicare and Obama’s public option are government health care.

I have no faith that Obama’s government-run health care will be any less wasteful and inefficient than the past program under Medicare. We are asked to believe that more government can cure a past government problem. The main change will be long lines and long waits.

Instead of cost savings from elimination of waste and fraud, the cost savings will be forced to come from rationed health care. Obama should have addressed why government health care is not working in Canada, Great Britain and many other countries, in order to convince us that it will somehow work here. Obama’s claim that his health care plan will not add to the deficit is unbelievable.

Mr. Obama, we hope you will be the last president to propose government health care, since the majority of American people would prefer some amendments to our present system, which is still the best health care in the world!