If it was just a question of finding ways for the uninsured to have equal access to Health Care Insurance, there would be little debate. The issue at hand is the Government wants to expand its control over everyone's health care insurance. President Obama stated that
...we must also address the crushing cost of health care.
This is a cost that now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds. By the end of the year, it could cause 1.5 million Americans to lose their homes. In the last eight years, premiums have grown four times faster than wages. And in each of these years, one million more Americans have lost their health insurance. It is one of the major reasons why small businesses close their doors and corporations ship jobs overseas. And it’s one of the largest and fastest-growing parts of our budget.
This is coming from the same Government that fails to exercise any real oversight to put an end to Medicare/Medicaid fraud. This costs the Government in excess of $10 Billion a year. Yet our President and his Democratic henchmen in Congress want to control the costs on existing Health Care plans? Based on Government Run insurance already, it will end up costing all of us ten-fold to have insurance.
Mr. President, with all due respect, you need to fix the Medicare/Medicaid mess first before you take on any real reforms. So far, the only references that any Heath Care Expansion Bill has had were cuts to the Social Security funded Health Care and reducing its scope of coverage. In fact, as of 1 March 2010, you have slashed the amount of money paid to Doctors by 21%.
Based on what you honestly desire, by the time you finish reforming my existing coverage, it will be laying in smoldering ruin. After your "cost controls" finish chasing away the best Doctors, we will have to go third world countries to get the best medical care.
