What's the rush on passing health care?

I'm scratching my head wondering why the rush on the health care debate? Even if this is pushed into law tomorrow the only immediate effect will be the taxes on the people who are already struggling to pay the heavy taxes we already have.

These taxes will affect every single person and business in the country while we're in the midst of a recession with unemployment already over 10 percent, more like 15 to 17 percent. Do people not know that any of the supposedly lower-cost health care won't take place for four to six years, if that?

So why are the president and Democrats selling us on the notion that people need this immediately? By taking piece by piece problems like health care fraud, excessive regulations that burden the health care and drug company businesses and cost billions, and tort reform, that alone would cover the cost to insure millions of people and could be accomplished in less than six months with no tax increases.

Do people realize that this administration has no one with private corporate business experience, and there trying to take control of 1/6 of the economy? Like millions of other citizens, this sounds like it's much more about other things than it is about solving the problem at hand.

Martin J. Uttich

Carol Stream