Well, the health care debate rambles on. Conservatives are afraid of more government and liberals are seeing an opportunity to make health care available to millions of people who would not otherwise have it.

Amidst thousands of pages of an actual bill and hundreds of thousands of pages of commentary, how are we supposed to know exactly how a bill is going to affect us? And how will we know whether a health care reform bill will really work?

Sure, there are endless articles out there claiming to know this or that about legislative health care reform. Most popular are the claims that politicians hold a hidden legislative agenda. Some argue that it is the personal hope for some politicians is that they will some day be able to control our lives as much as possible and take our freedoms away.

They are out to get you! They want to make your lives miserable!

So often we forget that politicians simply move whichever way the wind blows. The reason health care reform has made it this far is because of public outcry. And the reason why Democrats have taken the lead with their programs for reform is because when the GOP had the majority, they didn’t do enough to respond to public frustration with the rising cost of health care.

As for my own opinion on the matter, I am optimistic, but until I finally read the final version of the Senate bill, or at least portions of the bill that interest me most, I can’t really speak authoritatively on the matter. Which gets me to to my final point. What percentage of us can really speak authoritatively on this matter? 3%? 5%? Or is it even less than that…1%? Regardless, the speculation flies and amidst all the information and commentary, we all actually know very little. How ironic.