A new poll reflects the great difficulty - and with good reason - President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress will face in trying to enact their version of health care reform.

68% of Americans rate their health care quality as good or excellent. That figure jumps to 74% when one just calculates those who describe themselves as voters. Now, I am no political whiz but it does not strike as a good idea to tamper with a product of which 74% of your constituents describe as good or even excellent.

Further, 50% of Americans - and I believe this is justified - fear that ObamaCare will lead to a decline in their health care quality. It definitely will. ObamaCare will lead to the gradual loss of private care [as private companies cannot compete with a tax-free, subsidizing mammoth that would be a public option], rationing of medical care and the lessening of specialization. ObamaCare will also abolish medical liberty by forcing everyone to sign on to health care or face punitive taxes.

The American private sector is not perfect, but government is the problem not the solution to quote President Reagan. It is government that prevents the United States have having a nation-wide market. Right now a resident of Tennessee cannot buy health care in California. The market is fragmented due to mandate laws. For instance, California state has over 40 mandates for state insurers. So an insurance company wanting to do business in California must offer coverage for 40-plus aliments of which most will never be requested by a client. This not only means higher premium because you have to pay for coverage you will never use, but also leads to market fragmentation since the costs to entry to California may be too much for a firm from, say, Virginia. Get rid of mandate laws, that alone will reduce cost and then allow for pan-American competition that will drive down prices.

Second, and this is politically harder to achieve, get rid of the restrictions on the number of medical students that can be admitted ever year lobbied for by the American Medical Association. This is meant to limit the number of doctors, thus pushing up prices.

All this is due to government restrictions imposed by campaign contribution-hungry politicians. ObamaCare will only make an imperfect situation worse.