[IronJack]

The whole health care issue is a leftist fabrication. How often did anyone even hear about a "health care crisis" before Hillary Clinton barged onto the scene? How did a function that the private sector had been handling comfortably for hundreds of years suddenly become a "crisis" that needed to be "managed" (read: controlled) by government?

The first step of the left is to create a problem. Then they rush in to solve it. Of course, their "solution" does nothing but create more problems, which they must then solve as well.

This kid nailed it perfectly.

[tacticalogic]

How did a function that the private sector had been handling comfortably for hundreds of years suddenly become a "crisis" that needed to be "managed" (read: controlled) by government?

PR, courtesy of the Robet Wood Johnson Foundation.

[SandRat]

With thinking like his the correct closing would be This young-man nailed it perfectly.

[kiwiexpat]

The health care issue is not a fabrication. First, something must be done to contain the costs, which are increasing at approximately 16 percent per annum. (On a personal note, my health care insurance has increased from $2,500 for 2000 to $4,500 for 2004.) Second, according to the US Census (2000), 43 million Americans are without health care.

The crisis exists; the solution does not necessarily involve the system being "managed" by government. For instance, tort reform, as proffered by President Bush, is one way, in conjunctions with other measures, to slow down the cost increases.