Health Care Guest Post

An interesting thought from a relative of mine regarding health care reform and how we're all talking around each other:

often both the left and the right are "right". The problem is they're right about different things. So when the right is attacking health care it's because we can't afford it and it doesn't do anything to fix "the problem". The left says we'll find a way to afford it and it's a step toward fixing the problem of having thousands of people uninsured. If the left sees the #1 problem of health care as the uninsured and the right sees the #1 problem as the rising costs and the model of distribution then you can see how they both might be right. So what gets me is that the left and the right sometimes act like they're talking about the same thing when really they're not.

Well said.  Looking at things this way, I stand proudly on the left of course- the #1 problem is the fact that 30 million plus Americans don't have health insurance.  And of course the Affordable Care Act also addresses rising costs, though not as much as it needs to.