OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE SPEECH.

President Obama threw down the gauntlet, while presenting his case on his embattled health care reform. He was anxious to impress his audience of millions of Americans, who were watching him on their television sets and listening to him on their radios, and not just those assembled in the House chamber.

He was unafraid and showed a great deal of fortitude, proving his gargantuan strength as a candidate during the 2008 campaign was still there as president. He spoke as a man with a plan, and as one who was convinced that, although his speech might fall on the deaf ears of those who had already made up their minds, it was critical for him to appeal to others who were sitting on the sidelines.

He knew that the House was divided, but the country was just confused about the many proposals that have been thrown out by the opposition on a complicated issue as health care. He had to prove that they were wrong, particularly on the idea of "Public Option" that would allow the government to venture into the field of insuring people, and making sure that they had a choice to transfer to an alternate plan, if ever their private insurance coverage proved insufficient or totally failed them.

Presently, we all knew that the Health Care Insurance business was a monopoly, being practiced by individual companies and corporations, who played almost by their own rules. They could offer their service or deny it to patients, depending on their own assessments, and within "self prescribed" modalities that only suited the policies of those companies and corporations. Any involvement by the government, directly in the area of health (insurance) coverage, would lead to "Social Medicine", and that might be intrusive in private enterprise.

President Obama's reform would cut into the enormous influence of the Insurance industry, and it would be able to investigate how cases were handled financially between the industry and medical practitioners, on one hand, and sick patients, on the other. Thus turning the Insurance industry from being capitalistic in nature, as it was at present, to being socialistic. The idea would then spread to other industries for the government to have its hands in free enterprise as a whole; and that was exactly where the fear lied.

The Republicans believed that; and so did those who maintained that the United States would never become a socialistic state, based on its history and monetary structure that placed people in separate tax brackets; a system which supported the economic notion of "haves" and "have nots", and having a one sided advantage for some and not for all; and to change that would be like going to war.

President Obama presented his case well; the speech was exceptionally informative, and given in a modern and stylistic format; however, was it understood and therefore accepted by the majority of the people that were listening and watching?

The subterfuge, they should know, would be the argument of his detractors that illegal aliens would have free access to medical care or the high cost of medical malpractice lawsuits. Those were just distractions, and they (special interests and detractors) knew it. Excuses and pure baloney; and they must be exposed.

The result of his speech would be anybody's guess, because it still laid in the lap a Congress that needed to learn about the philosophy of "give and take"; and in the present state of affairs, it was hard to predict its outcome.

Putting it another way, political ideologies were stiffly standing in his way, and it would be very difficult to tell what would happen next. What he and his party could do was to use persuasive arguments in the remainder of the appropriated time; and continue to wait, with the hope that progress would be achieved in "the process".