Health Care Reform Really? or politics as usual

When looking at the political gymnnastics currently happening around the health care reform one might readily ask why not health care reform...what are we afraid of? Isn't it better to just do something and then "work out the details?" What might there be in those 2000 pages to be concerned about? These are all great questions and based on the history of most of the senators and congress people with their inclinations to allow staffers to "slip things into bills". I think it would be better for the current bill to die a quick death. Obama stated yesterday or this morning that if it wasn't able to pass this time it probably wouldn't pass for another 10 years...quite a threat and fear mongering that he has also recently warned us about as if only republicans practice such tactics. I do believe that health care reform is needed but I also believe that the plans as put forth by the congress and by the senate are fatally flawed...too much pork, support for abortion, the public option that increases the role of medicare, seeking to keep payments down...how many doctors will really be left in 10 years if we move to a greatly increased medicare structure with payments still going down? There are so many unintended consequences lurking here that it seems that the democrats feel that getting anything through and calling it health care reform is a win for them. This is almost as laughable as the way many of them were actively and passively hoping for failure in Iraq in the war a couple of years ago so that they could win points. For those saying that the republicans are offering nothing; they are just ignoring what the republicans are offering. These same democrats dug their feet in with Bush derangement syndrome and fought hard to stop anything of value from happening for the last three years or more of the great President Bush's years as president. Politics as usual gets in the way of the really good things happening. I could go on and on about this but suffice it to say that politics as usual and the Presidential threats and fear mongering that are happening in health care reform, climate control, the economy and jobs creation, as well as with "immigration reform" are going to have the unintended consequences or maybe even by design of the decline of our great nation. All of these big reforms may be in areas that need some kind of reform but all actions are not equal or good for us. There are fundamental differences in opinion throughout our nation on these issues. The independents among us seem to be swinging away from support from the democrats agenda...more than a little buyers remorse hopefully. Believers need to wake up. Conversations do need to be held on these issues but seeking to eliminate dissent and all voices through marginalizing people is not the answer. Unfortunately the republican answers at times seem no better. The Tea Parties throuughout this year and the great protest in Washington today tell us that the politicians need to actually listen to what the people have to say on these matters. Do not give up or give in on these matters. Fast, pray, seek God, turn from our wicked ways and God will heal the land. This Biblical solution as found in II Chronicles is the answer to politics as usual. If God's people will truly hear His call and seek Him in these things then there is a chance for our nation. If we continue politics as usual and try and spend our way through all of the issues that I have mentioned then we are in for a terrible time. Perhaps this is tied right into the whole spirit of anti-christ post. But now is the time for prayer and for informed political and spiritual action.