There are 3 or 4 bills, it’s hard to keep track without a program, floating around the house and the senate at any given time lately. The health care debate in the U.S. is still going full force and is as entertaining as ever, so what happened to the economy? It seems that for the past few months health care has been front and center in the U.S. federal government discussions. The economic problems seem to have been relegated to the back burner with the Left saying the Stimulus bill was a success and Right saying it was a failure.
To most average folks debating the Stimulus bill is a waste of time. 250,000 people hit the unemployment lines last week and I’m pretty confident that they care little about the debate. I would also suggest that problems with the health care system are also low on their list of priorities at the moment. Now, I’m aware that there has been lots of discussion about the economy but it would seem that it the federal government were really serious about helping it would focus more on the problem. The health care debate has consumed an inordinate amount of time in Washington and one has to wonder where the economy might be if a similar effort were put into it.
