Posts Tagged ‘No way is this the health care answer’
February 25, 2010
- REFORM?
Dear Mrs. Figgins:
My husband and I are completely baffled by all this health care talk.
A friend of ours from Europe came to the United States just for their surgery. So how bad can the good old USA be?
We’re happy with our insurance, and we care about what happens to those who are less fortunate but we’re sick and tired of the cronyism and abuse of power that we’re seeing. Who can be trusted?
Based on your travels, can you shed some light on this mess?
Millie & Herb, Almost Seniors in Nevada
Dear Millie & Herb:
WE’RE ALL SICK OF IT!
It doesn’t matter the color of our skin or party affiliation. We’re all sick of the fast talking politicians.
The good old USA has the best health care system in the world – and I’ve yet to meet one capitalist that doesn’t agree with the words of Ronald Reagan:
“ the preservation and enhancement of the values that strengthen and protect individual freedom, family life, communities and neighborhoods and the liberty of our beloved nation should be at the heart of any legislative or political program presented to the American people.”
My advice: TRUST in GOD, first. And trust in the VOTE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
What we need is far reaching health care reform – not a shot in the dark redo of 1/6 the American economy by a government that hasn’t been faintly successful in running the Post Office, Medicare and Rail System.
Encourage and reward competition and market forces to bear, and ensure access to affordable and portable health care coverage for every American. Put patients and their doctors in charge, not the government. Tackle tort reform, and rampant fraud. And YES, we can help those who cannot afford to buy their own health care.
Millie & Herb, I personally know socialism and I know communism. It’s a very black hole. The good people of America need to sleep with both eyes open at this time and heed the ominous signs.
Regarding your question on Health Care, the Heritage Foundation has put it best. Our sincere appreciation for the following:
Putting citizens, not government, in charge of health care:
“America’s doctors and medical institutions are the envy of the world. The level of expertise and the pace of innovation in U.S. health care are unmatched.
Yet many Americans worry whether they will have access to medical care when they need it. The reason is that America’s health insurance system does not function very well.
Too many Americans lack health insurance, there are gaps in coverage, and costs are increasing at an alarming rate. Health insurance is usually not portable from job to job, and consumers have very little choice about what their insurance covers.
Unfortunately, the left has seized on the problem to push its own solutions, all of which involve more government control. With the implied promise of something for nothing, and few alternative solutions offered, they are gaining traction.
The nationalization of our health care would be a disaster for Americans of every age and income group. The innovation, high quality and advanced treatment techniques which characterize our current system would be degraded, and if the experience of other countries is any guide, rationing of care, especially at the end of life, would become the norm.
The conservative alternative to socialized medicine is to enact serious reforms in current tax and insurance law that would expand personal ownership and control of health insurance and transfer the control of health care dollars to individuals and families.
These reforms would move today’s bureaucracy-driven, heavily regulated third-party payment system to a new patient-centered system of consumer choice and real free-market competition.”
Mrs. Figgins
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