New bureaucracy won't fix system

Incredible! The president of the United States stands before a live audience and before a world-reaching press and announces there is "waste, inefficiency, and downright fraud" in the government's health care system. (Daily Herald, page 2, March 11) "Improper payments cost taxpayers almost $100 billion last year alone," he says.

And what is his solution? Create a bigger bureaucracy. And his plan for ending the current "waste, inefficiency, and fraud"? Not one word. He's blackmailing us. In effect he's saying: Pass my health care plan or this waste, fraud, etc., will continue.

How dumb does he think we are? What arrogance commands his thinking? Does he even wonder, in his most private moments, why Americans are saying, in poll after poll after poll, "Yes, health care needs fixing, but your plan, Mr. President, stinks."

Only the federal government can fix health care, Obama's mantra goes. Look at Medicare and Medicaid. Oh, wait. They're going broke. Well, look at Social Security. Oh, wait. It's going broke. Well, look at the Post Office. Oh, wait. It's going broke.

Pass my health care plan now, Obama says. It's not perfect, but we can fix the problems later. On that day pigs will fly. He won't fix the waste, fraud, etc., that exists now, why should we believe he's going to fix future waste, fraud, etc.? If his plan passes, the country will be stuck with it - unchanged - for generations. Since he shows no interest in fixing the problems he admits exist in the current system, how can anyone even suspect he'll show any interest in fixing the problems in his projected new bureaucracy?

Don Frost

Rolling Meadows