Obama's health reform is politically out of touch

Authors:
José Alberto López Rafaschieri and Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net

Obama and his team believe that, as a health system accessible to all Americans is a reasonable idea from many points of view, it is essential to pressure the Congress to approve it, ignoring public opinion.

Obama and his people do not realize that the reform proposed for the health system has a rejection of at least two points over those who support it, i.e. a technical tie. And, in such scenario, it is unreasonable to pass this bill on the House Floor, because even if they get to approve it, by pressure on congressmen and political alliances, the reality is that a little more than half of Americans do not support a substantial reform of their health system.

As things stand, not reforming the health system would be a mistake, as almost half of the country wish it, but imposing this desire on the other half, without including their proposals, would be a mistake even worse. In this case, the right thing would be to broaden the debate and develop a health program with the participation of every national sector, in order to reflect the point of view and interests of all U.S citizens.

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