Rough Copy of Intro for Health Care Paper

Here is a copy of my rough draft for my paper introduction; my topic is health care reform. Well i turn this in tomorrow let's see what happens:

Introduction:

Of the 310 million people living in the United States today, 46.6 million are without health insurance and have no access to good quality health care (2006 Census report). This statistic is very startling and certainly grabs ones attention. This alone tells the perils of our current health care system and why it needs reform. It is also however, a lie. Today it is very hard to avoid the topic of health care in America. Everywhere one goes. health care seems to be the hot topic. Weather it is at lunch and the people sitting at the table next to you are discussing it, on the nightly news, on the radio, in the classroom and at town halls and Tea Parties. Yet in this debate that has snow balled since the spring into the largest debate in American history, so many things seem to slip by without question. One might make the absurd claim that insurance companies are evil; deny people care all the time and raise costs for more money. This is of course false. However health reform pushers take this as fact and use it as motive to pass a sweeping new government take over of our health care system. Are insurance companies only in it for profit? Are they the reason people are denied care, and they feel the need to be mean and kick people out onto the streets without care? Of course they are not.
However there is a greater force that does. A powerful company that sets rules for hospitals and doctors, that seeks to lay new regulations on insurance companies that will raise costs and ration patient care. Meet the U.S. Federal Government. Today the debate is over not simply insuring people without health care, for if that were the case then we would have solved this a long time ago. It is more however, about a new government expansion to control the people, versus giving power to the patients. The complexities of the debate are amazing and forever. It is almost impossible for one individual to grasp the ramifications of a 2,000-page bill. In fact for that very reason it would seem that we have over worked this issue and should go back to the drawing board. It is inconceivable to me how one can read parts of these bills, and still support such legislation. This will accomplish nothing but explode our debt and is as senator John McCain said about the stimulus package “generational theft.’ Despite obamacare’s goals to lower costs and bring quality health care, and competition, it will instead; drive out private insurance, cause prices to soar and ration care, thus resulting in a universal nightmare.