is bad for America, will cost us jobs and lead to socialized
medicine. That's my conclusion and I'm stickin to it, based on
what I have heard about it.
First off, the plan punishes successful people. It proposes to
tax people earning over $350,000 to pay for the people who don't
have health insurance. So you run a business which does very
well, build up your earning power to the point where you can
provide a very comfortable standard of living for your family,
and then along come President Obama and like minded liberals
reaching into your pocket and taking more of your money. Why
should anyone want to work to become successful if they are just
going to be expected to feed more of the Government bureaucracy?
Government bureaucrats have never heard of cutting spending.
The health care plan requires Americans to have health insurance.
If someone truly can't get insurance, that could be a problem,
but I would ask, how hard have they tried? And, what about those
who simply don't make an effort to get insured? Why should we
require, and pay for them, to get it? What a bunch of bull shit.
The plan calls for a Government insurance program to compete with
private plans. Besides the fact the Government bureaucrats will
probably screw it up and make it too expensive, employers will
say, hey, why should I offer health insurance, let the Government
take care of my workers. This will lead to very high taxes and
put AMERICA at a competitive disadvantage in a global economy.
Just as bad as what's in this plan is what's not in this plan or
what doesn't appear to be in it from the news reports I've heard.
For one thing, there appears to be no malpractice liability
reform. This means greedy trial lawyers and juries can continue
to hand out huge pain and suffering awards in malpractice cases.
Clearly, if someone is a victim of medical malpractice, they or
their families should be compensated for economic damages. But
there need to be limits on pain and suffering because the value
of this is hard to quantify. Plus, doctors cannot continue to
pay high malpractice premiums and will stop practicing. In some
parts of Illinois, it's already hard to find doctors practicing
in high risk specialties. Are we prepared to have people die
waiting for specialized care simply because there is not a doctor
close by offering it so we can feed the trial lawyers' insatiable
appetite for money?
This plan doesn't say anything about telling illegal ailians,
tough shit, you get no more free health care. That would piss
off a lot of people whom the Democratic party pretends to care
about. If we eliminated health care for illegals, we would take
12 million people off the roles saving a heck of a lot of
taxpayer money.
I bet this plan doesn't contain any language about making
prescription information accessible to people who are blind, or
treating vision related services and equipment the same under
medicare as are other professional services and equipment like
physical therapists or wheelchairs. For someone who has recently
lost vision, receiving services from a certified vision
professional, Orientation and Mobility Specialist or Adaptive
Tech specialist is just as important as the person receiving
physical therapy for a knee replacement. Yet, Medicare doesn't
pay for the vision professional. Same goes for the vision
related equipment like video magnifiers someone may need to
remain independent. Those things aren't covered, yet if someone
needs a wheelchair, it is.
There is a lot wrong and very little right (the health care plan
being put forward by House liberal democrats. It continues to
show they see business and successful people as a money trough
they can reach into and dip more out. It punishes people who are
successful to cover up for the irresponsibility of others. It
gets the Government into the health care business, something
which should scare all of us. It doesn't address real
despairities in what is covered for of with vision disabilities
vs. what is covered for others. Everyone reading this must
contact their member of Congress and ask that he or she vote no
on this terrible plan. The sooner we can kill it, the better off
America will be.
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