Posted by
Charlie on Monday, September 28, 2009 5:54:33 PM
Congress, is in the process of trying to enact reform of our medical system in spite of the fact that 80+ per cent of Americans are satisfied with the health coverage they have now. I won't try to go into the details now since the content of the bill hasn't been finalized except to say that like everything that comes out of Washington it will be loaded with regulations and penalties for non-compliance.
I'd like to suggest that what we need is not more regulation but more freedom.
We need the freedom to buy health insurance from any company in the country.
This will bring true competition to the health insurance industry.
We need to free doctors from the menace of frivolous law suits.
The cost of the extra tests run by doctors to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits is a major factor in the cost of health care.
We need to free the American public from the inequitably high drug prices by passing a law which prevents the pharmaceutical companies from charging more for drugs in the USA than they do in other countries.
I speak from personal experience in this regard. An expensive medication I take was purchased from a Canadian pharmacy for one-fourth the cost. If Canada can have it why can't we?
We need to be free of the millstone that is the use of our health care system by illegal aliens.
If the people in Washington won't enforce our immigration laws we should vote them out of office.
We also need a law that says that a child born in the USA to an illegal alien is not automatically a citizen.
The president and others in the administration have said there is a lot of waste and corruption in Medicare and Medicaid.
No 1000+ page bill is needed to correct this.
The Attorney General should take care of this instead of persecuting CIA interrogators who saved us from countless terror attacks.
I urge everyone to contact their representatives in Congress and tell them not to pass this monstrosity of health care reform.
This makes me FURIOUS!!!
DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!!! DON'T VOTE FOR LAWYERS!!!!