The fight over new health care leg­is­la­tion pro­longs while Congress wages war amongst itself.

The debate over health care and President Obama’s pro­posed bill, has spurred one of the most hotly con­tested polit­i­cal bat­tles we’ve seen for some time. The Democratic con­trolled gov­ern­ment aims to cre­ate a pub­lic health insur­ance option and pro­vide health insur­ance to all Americans, not just those who can afford it.

Photo Courtesy of MCT CampusDemonstrators: The fight con­tin­ues as demon­stra­tors rally against the pro­posed health care reform.

The Republicans view the fed­er­ally funded health insur­ance option as yet another Democratic attempt to turn America down the road of social­ism and exces­sive gov­ern­ment con­trol, while the Democrats blame the Republicans for stag­ing unre­al­is­tic cit­i­zen protests and out­rage at the con­gres­sional town hall meet­ings that attempt to inform the American peo­ple about the health care issue.

The Republican mem­bers of Congress are stand­ing firm in oppo­si­tion to this type of health care reform and even some mod­er­ate and con­ser­v­a­tive Democrats have invested their resis­tance as well, whether in dis­agree­ment with gov­ern­ment funded health care or in fear of los­ing reelec­tion in con­ser­v­a­tive areas.

Although both sides of the polit­i­cal spec­trum and every­one in between have their own set of views on the health care issue, one thing is cer­tain, America and all Americans are def­i­nitely in need of health care reform.

While I may not sup­port the Democratic ini­tia­tive to cre­ate gov­ern­ment con­trolled pub­lic health insur­ance, I do acknowl­edge the fact that there are def­i­nite flaws in our cur­rent health care sys­tem. However, I do not believe that it should be left up to the gov­ern­ment to gen­er­ate the proper and afford­able reform that the American peo­ple truly need.

A gov­ern­ment funded health care leg­is­la­tion would be the largest gov­ern­ment under­tak­ing since Social Security, a gov­ern­ment con­trolled pro­gram that, in my opin­ion, has not been oper­ated prop­erly over the years. Medicare and Medicaid, two more gov­ern­ment funded pro­grams, each have their own set of imper­fec­tions as well.

Perhaps the great­est con­cern in the minds of the American peo­ple how­ever should be the fact that the pro­posed bill that would cre­ate a fed­eral gov­ern­ment run health insur­ance option, H. Res. 615, exempts the mem­bers of Congress and their fam­i­lies from par­tic­i­pat­ing in the pub­lic option and allows them to con­tinue to par­tic­i­pate in their Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP).

Clearly, the American peo­ple aren’t being informed the truth about what the pro­posed health care bill entails and would ben­e­fit in tak­ing a closer look at why the gov­ern­ment funded health insur­ance option is good enough for the American peo­ple, but not those who run their government.

No mat­ter how Congress and the U.S. Government attempt to approach the issue of new health care leg­is­la­tion, two things are for cer­tain: the American peo­ple need health care reform and the mem­bers of Congress should gov­ern fairly and not exempt them­selves from legislation.