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Americans oppose health care plan
Published Saturday, November 21, 2009
The American people have spoken. They oppose government-run health care by a wide margin!
What Americans want are common-sense, responsible solutions that address the rising cost of health care and other major problems.
Moreover Americans want a stop to the insane modern progressive policies and corruption that are bankrupting America and mortgaging the future of our children and the future generations of our nation.
The overwhelming majority of Americans want a plan for common-sense health care reform our nation can AFFORD.
NO ONE can deny that virtually every federal Government entitlement program is a cesspool of corruption, waste fraud and abuse. As much as $500 billion just in Medicare and Medicaid alone are being wasted.
The recent, ridiculously false, government accountings of the "jobs" created by the massive amounts of stimulus funds is a CLEAR example of an incredible level of incompetence and an inexcusable breach of fiscal responsibility.
If the Federal Government can not stop this outrageous funding of criminal enterprises and monumental fiscal irresponsibility - FIRST - , it is beyond comprehension that we should allow them to take over as much as 20% MORE of the private economy.
During this massively overcomplicated, ridiculous process of crafting these various Orwellian versions of "health care reform" no one can even agree on how many ACTUAL "uninsured" Americans there are.
Many say, there are ACTUALLY only somewhere around 15 million, yet politicians are writing legislation to potentially disrupt perhaps 300 million lives, untold businesses and the entire health care economy, to supposedly cover estimates ranging from 30 million (President Obama) to 57 million (multiple legislation supporters). HOW is it possible to create legislation when you have NO IDEA of how many people are TRULY in need.
Legislation that invokes further IRS intrusion into our lives, onerous massive tax increases and threatens huge fines and jail terms for non compliance, will lead to an exodus of doctors and health care professionals, rationing and a plague of other unacceptable outcomes, as is common in other nationalized healthcare countries.
There are four basic common-sense reforms that will lower health care costs and expand access to quality care without a massive government takeover of our nation’s health care system that kills jobs, raises taxes on small businesses, or cuts Medicare for seniors:
1: Let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines.
2: Allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do.
3: Give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs.
4: End junk lawsuits that contribute to higher health care costs by increasing the number of tests and procedures that physicians sometimes order not because they think it's good medicine, but because they are afraid of being sued.
In addition to these four basic reforms, we need to stop the massive costs associated with providing healthcare and virtually every entitlement imaginable to those who are here on an illegal basis.
If our government can not manage the BASIC task of maintaining our borders and effectively enforcing our immigration laws, it is ludicrous to even begin to consider ANY further broadening of federal powers!
Carol Moreau
Andalusia
Comments
Posted by Estragon (anonymous) on November 21, 2009 at 9:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
When you don't have the FACTS, type in all CAPS and maybe people will believe you.
What people have spoken, Carol? The electoral vote was Obama 365 and McCain 173. And as for you and your husband's rally on the Square, I counted 7 people and a dog.
Explain how protecting the health insurance industry (which is the proposal put forth by the Republican Party than you mention in your letter) will provide Americans with health care coverage that they can afford? Oh, and throw in some distractions, like illegal aliens. You forgot the one about abortions.
I read on the internet where you were also a "birther." So much for your credibility.
Posted by IcePickZero (anonymous) on November 22, 2009 at 12:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It appears that YOU are the one without facts. Should have come back 20 minutes later, you would have found 30 people there at the rally you belittle. You're well known on the blog circle for having a chip on your shoulder and 'anti-everything', that's why you don't typically find intelligent people out there exposing themselves to absurd diatribe.
No Health Care proposal in this ongoing debate, by either party, has been accepted by the MAJORITY of the American public. Could it be they just simply have better 'sense'?
As regards to being a birther, you act as if that demeans one's credibility. To the contrary. Back to common sense. If the "dog" has a birth certificate, if YOU have one (assuming you are a legal immigrant or native born and have an Alabama Drivers License), then why is it they (the DNC)continue to pull out all stops to prevent the disclosure by the Messiah? Could it be there IS something to hide? If not, produce it and lay it to rest - and I don't mean that clear forgery that was published on the web.
Perhaps instead of sniping at people out taking action and trying to take back their country from slobbering liberal dolts, why don't YOU write the editor? Could it be too much 'exposure'? Why don't YOU organize something and try to do something good for your country (however you might define that). That's still one of your 'rights', at least for now.
Posted by sawdust (anonymous) on November 27, 2009 at 10:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Democrat or republican, mongrel foreigner or hilarious has been who spent too long in the Hanoi Hilton. If you think that either of these political fat cats will ever help the working man or woman of our state, you are a fool! Politicians add rules to fix things that work. The more rules you add the more you stop up the pipes and the more rights and priveleges we all lose.
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