Who Knew The Healthcare Problem Was So Simple?

While experts, politicians, and healthcare providers have been battling it out for decades over how to employ a system of healthcare that leaves no one out, the Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has it all figured out.

Recently, he said:

So if it’s a cost problem, it’s easy: Get the people in a room who have the most and the most direct impact on cost, and do the deal. Do the deal. It’s not that complicated.

If it’s an access question, people don’t have access to health care, then figure out who they are, and give them access! Hello?! Am I missing something here? If my friend Trevor has access to health care, and I don’t, why do I need to overhaul the entire system so I can get access he already has? Why don’t you just focus on me and get me access?

There. It’s simple. Ok, if it’s so simple, how come it hasn’t been passed yet? Is it that the Republican Party’s core constituency doesn’t want it to happen? What else could be the reason?

I don’t necessarily care how we get it done. I just don’t want a system in which anyone is denied needed healthcare because of a lack of money.

So, I look forward to Mr. Steele leading the charge for a system where no patient is left behind.