Big Government, small government; it’s hard to define. What I (and I suspect many Democrats and Republicans) really want is an effective government that provides services that we really need. Take healthcare for example, having HMO corporations compete for consumers’ business is a good idea and should be kept intact; however, as healthcare technology improves, so does the cost of providing it. Just as we subsidize public education (granted to varying degrees of success), why not let people choose the health plan they like, make HMO’s compete for our business, but get our respective State governments to subsidize a PORTION of it; and also mandate that HMO’s can’t drop our coverage every time we sneeze. This preserves competitiveness, but allows us as Americans to essentially “help” each other out and bring in less fortunate people, college students, younger people who don’t make as much money and such, into the healthcare fold; we’re paying taxes already, don’t we deserve a service such as this?
