Healthcare Suffers from Shotgun Compromises

House Speaker John Boehner (r.), President Obama, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (l.) brokered a tentative budget deal that avoids a government shutdown

On tangent to the healthcare crisis, the budget crisis seems even higher in intensity, due to the fact that the government will shut down without a consensus. Between President Obama with the Democrats and Boehner with the Republicans, previous negotiation had been halted over which programs to cut, reduce, or increase. By waiting for Obama to bend first, the Republicans saw opportunity to achieve their own goals, unfortunately they received what they wanted for the price of some department aid funds.

The budget agreement also takes aim at two provisions of the new health care law. It would cut more than $2 billion set aside for the creation of private nonprofit health insurance cooperatives.

It was back and forth between whether this was the correct move or not, but Democrat Ron Wyden voiced his concern about the process.

“Publicly,” Mr. Wyden said, “both parties say they are champions of choice and competition and making health insurance more affordable for everyone. But then behind closed doors they kill a program that does exactly that. This seems like a victory for special interests.”

Viewing the evidence, it seems that it is not the cause that must be just in order to succeed, but whose hand you must shake so that you gain permission. Whether or not this will backlash on a certain party is not yet known, but the current system is flawed. Although receiving several cuts, healthcare is looking to prosper, but what is not known is if it will impact the American people the way it was intended