Health care is the concern of politics and not the major concern of Americans and is being used as a distraction to those issues that most weigh on Americans. While President Obama delivered another rousing speech in favor of what his generalized plan for increasing health care coverage by increasing government involvement in medical care. The major concern of Americans today is jobs, home values, safety of their money, and the future of the US economy.
This health care issue is the concern of politics not the priority concern of the American people. Is it a concern yes, but not the main one! The concern of 26m Americans is employment! There are almost as many people out of work as they are without health coverage! What good is health care if I can't feed my family? This issue affects those with jobs and without! How do we grow our economy and protect our dollar if people can not work? How do we restore confidence in our economy if people can not spend money because they don't have income! Washington put your attention on what the American people want handled and today it is jobs!
Nearly 40% of all Americans who own a home today are concerned with the value of their homes where most of their net worth remains. Foreclosures are estimated to hit record levels never seen before with one in every 357 U.S. households with loans got a foreclosure filing in August alone. Foreclosures are affecting all of us not just those foreclosed on. The value of every homeowner is affected with every foreclosure, tax revenues are negatively impacted and confidence further deteriorates.
There are approximately 40 million elderly in this country that are concerned about the little bit of remaining money they have in the banks and whether it is safe and then trying to figure out how to survive on their savings while it earns .03% in banks they are no longer confident in.
Who is not concerned about the future condition of the economy and value of the US dollar? I assure you there are more concerned with these issues than they are with health care! The issue of health care is being forced on the American public to distract it from those things that are of the most concern to Americans.This focus on health care is like making a Christmas gift list while your house is burning down.
Jobs, the value of homes, the safety of our money, the trillions of dollars in debt this country is taking on, and the future of the American economy is of more concern to the Americans I talk to than health care! Is health coverage important? Absolutely. But when you are challenged it is critical that you take care of problems in the proper priority and make the main things the main thing. Ask the American public about what most concerns them today most and solve those problems first. Once you get people employed again, stop the dropping value of homes, get the banks lending the money we gave them and restore the economy then lets get everyone health insurance.