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Healthcare
Friday, 05 March 2010 00:00

There are so many problems with the recently passed healthcare plan ("Obamacare") that it's hard to know where to begin. But I'll try to be as brief as possible.

  1. The plan takes $500,000,000,000 out of Medicare, yet claims this will somehow benefit our senior citizens. How is that possible?
  2. According to its sponsors, the plan will add some 34,000,000 people to the health care rolls. Question. If we have the same number of doctors, the same number of hospitals and hospital beds, how can we avoid rationing and/or much longer waits for service? Also, if demand increases while supply does not, you AUTOMATICALLY get increased prices. It's economics 101. 
  3. This plan does little or nothing to reduce the COST of health CARE. It does not address the major problem of malpractice reform where multi-million dollar settlements, much of which finds its way into the pockets of unscrupulous lawyers, are paid for by us consumers. In addition, the fear of malpractice suits causes doctors and hospitals to run costly additional tests just as a defense against such lawsuits. The combination of these two unnecessary costs is staggering, yet nothing in Obamacare addresses this problem, for fear of upsetting trial lawyers, whose contributions to Democrat party campaigns are legend.
  4. This plan made it through Congress only after "buying" the votes of certain members and constituencies, including "the Louisiana purchase" and the Nebraska fiasco, and insuring that "cadillac health plans" (the ones with the most benefits) would be taxed as additional revenue to everyone EXCEPT union members.
  5. According to most estimates, the plan will add billions to the already staggering U.S. deficit that will have to be paid by us or by our children and their children. We have recently witnessed -- in Greece -- what happens when deficit spending gets out of control.
  6. The wishy-washy wording on abortion funding makes it possible and, I believe, likely, that abortions will indeed be funded by American taxpayers.
  7. For these and many other reasons, the American people have shown time and again that they didn't want -- and don't now want -- this healthcare nightmare. A Rasmussen poll in late May showed that 63% of Americans favored REPEAL of Obamacare. Recent polls still show that a large majority do not want this plan.

If I'm elected to Congress, I will do everything in my power to repeal the plan and to help develop a healthcare plan that reduces the COST of health care while broadening its availability to American citizens.

Last Updated on Friday, 03 September 2010 16:56