What crisis?

What exactly is the crisis? The overwhelming majority of Americans do not face a healthcare crisis. Polls show that about 80% of Americans are either "very" or "somewhat" satisfied with their health plans, and approximately 90% of patients who experienced serious illnesses were satisfied with their health care. Only a small percentage of the uninsured (voluntary or not) are dissatisfied with the medical treatment they receive in other ways. In other words, most Americans are perfectly fine with the health care they currently receive. These facts alone strongly suggest a more incremental approach, such as adding coverage for the working poor, would be much wiser than trying to "jam down" federal legislation that would remake the entire American healthcare system for everyone at a cost that adds even more debt to an already bulging deficit. Reform should be focused like a laser on specific issues and specific uninsured groups, not given to Washington bureaucrats to take complete control over a system that needs tweaks not an ownership change. This "crisis", for the most part, is simply an inventive political tool to be used to eliminate personal choice and gain unimaginable federal control over the citizenry and its revenues.