Health Care and other thoughts

As the debate of health care reform continues to escalate,a proposal by Senator Max Baucus of Montana to reform health care has alarmed me.
The Baucus plan includes a segment that will fine Americans that do not have health insurance.
The plans will fine people costs that range from a maximum of 950 dollars for an individual to an astonishing 3,800 for families.
Families that cannot afford health care now could have almost 4,000 dollars taken away from them.
Look,I am probably more liberal than most on this topic,but this seems to be one of the dumber ideas that I have heard.
The issue with health care is that people struggle to pay for it and the insurance companies don't always want to pay you for you paid for and the answer is forcing families to purchase things that they cannot afford?
Sorry,but that dog does not hunt.
One person compared this idea to being similar to the mandatory auto insurance that we must carry.
That comparison doesn't carry water.
Auto insurance is mandatory because of the possibility of your car damaging another innocent person on the road,health insurance is a decision based gamble on your part.
The Democrats have bungled this whole thing badly from not making their goal clear to having people not understand much of what the hell they are talking about.
Public Option?
Sounds like a college football offense to me.
On the other side,the Republicans have made every attempt to change the system in the way that it needs to changed sound like the tanks are rumbling into Prague.
Medicare for all.
How bad can that be?
Socialistic?
I highly doubt it.
Do a google search for Lyndon Johnson,Medicare and Republican and take a look at what was being said before arguably the most successful government program ever was passed.
Sounds hauntingly familiar,doesn't it?
I think the health care system needs a major change,but fining people that cannot afford large payments each month is the answer,I'll take the current broken system any day.


Bullpen Notes

Once again,the man that does the best job in explaining the crisis in the country isn't the President,he isn't a Senator or even a Congressman.
He isn't even an elected official,but Jim Cornette hammers every point,covers every base and does it in language (albeit very salty language) that every person can understand.
My question is this-why doesn't HBO pick up Cornette as guest host of Real Time when Bill Maher is off?
Or MSNBC add Cornette to their liberal lineup or Fox giving their critics a shot by adding a Democrat to their grid.......

It's Brady Quinn over Derek Anderson for the Browns starting quarterback job.
I don't think that it will matter much,but it had to be one of them,I guess.

Finally with a little over a month to go in the Rita's Italian Ice season,I was finally able to get my first Green Apple of the season!
Plus with a special,they were doing,I was able to add three quarts to the freezer for under ten bucks!

Now that my Rita's fetish has been taken care,I can look forward to only two months before Ashland/Wooster Drive In Coneys,chicken sandwiches and deep fried dill pickles and Donna D's Pizza!
Living here is rough in this pizza wasteland!

I am working overtime again this week,so I hope to get the Browns and Seahawks preview finished along with the first of a few On the Signing Front posts that will cover the last six weeks of the season...