Who is Really against Healthcare Reform?

People who have great health insurance and people who don't need healthcare.

But everybody is against bad government healthcare reform.

We've heard the statistics: over 50% of all bankruptcies are caused by medical expenses, 50some thousand people a year die from insufficient coverage, 17% of GDP.

and we've heard the stories, the under insured or uninsured: the old lady who had to take the bus home and reschedule her chemo because she forgot her HMO referral form, the people who skip their pills because the costs are too high.

Why would bad government healthcare be the solution?

There are good systems out there in the world. Yes there is room for improvement but those systems are significantly better than what most people have access to in the USA.

Yes, America has the best healthcare and hospitals and doctors in the world. Absolutely. No question or debate. But how many people can afford that healthcare and those hospitals and doctors? And for how long?

Until the politicians get serious and adopt an existing healthcare system without all the extra political manipulations added on, the people who have great healthcare will keep on preventing change, and rightly so.

Those who can afford great coverage will still have great coverage under a good healthcare program. But a reform bill that fails is no good to anybody.