Health Care Regulation-Costs-Politics

While much of the talk centering around health care reform one area that should be given special attention is that of health care regulation. One of the reasons that people are unable to get efficient and quality health care coverage is because the insurance companies, along with the drug companies, have run free for far too long. For decades these companies have been allowed to run up prices and wrongfully deny people the care that they deserve. This has to change.

We must also seek ways to lower the costs of health care. President Obama has found one creative way to cut health care costs by simply using electronic record keeping instead of the old and outdated system of filing paperwork. This is the things we must examine in order to cut costs where they can be cut.

During President Obama's speech to Congress and the American people we witnessed an important political moment. There have been times when there has been the battle of the public interests vs the interests of corporations and business. Wednesday was one of those moments. Obama and the Democrats could simply cave to the special interests and the big money lobbyists but instead they stood with the American people. Now we must see if they can get something done for the American people.