Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Health care reform??

My view on health care is simple. While it could be better, it is still better than anyone else's. We have friends in Canada who wait 2 YEARS to get a family doctor. A major medical procedure that we could get in a couple weeks, takes them 6-12 MONTHS. That is UNACCEPTABLE here in the US.

And the government expects us to believe our system is broken??? Our system is the best there is in the world at the moment.

We must NOT have a govt health insurance option. To think that it could be run properly is lunacy. There is so much corruption and favoritism in the current administration that a new healthcare program would simply be a tax on most of us to provide benefits to the president's friends and supporters.

We must NOT have rationed care. It is outright cruelty, and the first time you tell someone they have to die because someone "more worthy" will get the treatment instead, you will have rioting and civil unrest on your hands.

I will NOT pay for health care for 20 million illegal aliens with my tax dollars. ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!

If there is a way to reduce health care costs, great. I agree that costs for both insurance and procedures have gone up too much. But lets focus on why, instead of trying to give every humnan on the planet free health insurance.

Maybe tort reform? I know that many doctors simply cannot afford their liability insurance. Why? Too many lawsuits.

There are things that could be done better in our health care system, but honestly I do not see the big emergency. No one knew there was a health care emergency until the govt and the news media started screaming about it. We don't have an emergency just because some talking head says so.

So...SLOW DOWN! READ THE BILL!

How dare Rep. John Conyers say that he doesn't have time to read the bill? That's his job!!!
We may need some tweaking, but we do NOT need a wholesale restructuring of our system.