Obama's Television Blitz

September 21. 2009

U.S. President Barack Obama did five television interviews last week, in support of his national health care plans. On the television program, Face The Nation, the interviewer asked the same question the Judiciary Report pondered months ago, is the President taking on too much too fast.

Certain problems within the U.S. government should rank high on his agenda. Quite a few can easily be fixed. However, the health care issue is a mammoth problem that requires complete thought and thorough planning.

It would have been more appropriate to introduce a small tax increase on America's richest citizens, leaving the middle class and poor out of the extra taxation and eased it into a fund for a program to provide low cost health insurance for the members of American society, most in need of coverage, but are the least able to afford it.

One could cut costs in government across the board and wait until the nation's financial outlook improved, before attempting drastic financial decisions, such as health care for everyone, with the government footing the bill.

The only way this can be done quickly, without bankrupting the nation, is creating a health care tax everyone has to pay, following the international model and one would have to be careful introducing something of that scope overnight in a nation of 305,000,000 people.