
It was President Obama talking somewhere about his health reform bill. The president made a statement in reaction to Republican complaints about his bill.
“You had 10 years to do something,” Obama spoke of Republicans to the crowd.
Say what you want about Obama and the Democrats’ proposal to overhaul the health care and insurance industries in this country, but President George W. Bush and Republicans were in office for long enough to have acted if they wanted to.
Unless Congress acts before April 1, payments to doctors for treating Medicare patients will drop by more than 21 percent. The argument from doctors is they will stop seeing Medicare patients because they will spend more money treating them than they get reimbursed.
But Congress has done nothing but delay cuts in physician payments for more than 10 years. That dates back to the Bush administration and a Republican-controlled Congress.
Reader comments from my story today want to blame Obama for the Democrats plan for the potential ruin of health care.
If health care in this country goes to Hell in a hand basket, you shouldn’t blame Obama-care and Democrats. Sitting on your hands and doing nothing is just as bad taking action and messing up.
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