Of course we want health care for everyone, but the way this plan is being presented the Democrats fail to mention that 80-90% of Americans are satisfied with our present health care system. This leaves about 30 million people without health care in the USA, plus an estimated 12 million illegal aliens, which is where the "42 million" number comes from.
Why not concentrate on the 30 million uninsured instead of the majority that are satisfied with the best health care system in the world? I won't go into all the arguments in this blog; if you have followed the news you know what they are; if you haven't, this blog will mean nothing to you. All I know is that I want to keep my doctors, I trust them, and I want any medical decisions made between just me, my doctors, and my family.
Representative John Conyers said yesterday; " How can you expect us to read a document that is more than 1000 pages long when you would need days and a few lawyers to understand it". He is one of the key democrats trying to push this bill through Congress and he admits that they did not read the bill before voting on it - unbelievable. Our political system is broken - politicians are voting on ideology not what they think is best for the American people.
Here is a draft of of the bill - 1018 pages - pretend you are a Congressman or Senator and read it:
http://docs.house.gov/edlabor/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf
If you want "free" health care, you should read this, because if this bill is passed it will affect the rest of your life. But you won't read it, just like our politicians won't read it...it would take weeks if not months to truly understand it. Yet Obama says we need to vote on it NOW. Why? Because the Democrats know that if the public has time to see what is in this bill they will reject it, so "cramming" it through is their only hope of getting it passed.
One "minor" portion of this proposed bill is the requirement to give "end of life counseling" every five years to all seniors over the age of 65. Being almost 70 I will move to the top of that list. Can you imagine the day that a young civil servant with a bachelors degree in psychology comes and knocks on my door to give me "end of life counseling"? He will wish that he had picked engineering as a profession - if he survives the visit.
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Here's a summary of what's in the Bill H.R. 3200 July 14, 2009:
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2009/07/whats-in-healthacre-bill.html
Socialism is here to stay. Better to just welcome it -- and your End-of-Life Counselor -- with open arms. If politicians can push through something this important without even reading the details (they are), and if the American people let them (they will), then there's no stopping this juggernaut. USA: United Socialists of America. Might as well try to get as much out of it for yourself as you can, because you're going to be paying for it anyway.
I encourage everyone who reads this blog to review the summary posted by Jeff Pokrajac. Pretty scary stuff. I have been making a lot of noise on this proposed bill with our Senators and Representatives, but it seems to be falling on deaf ears. But I refuse to quit no matter how big the "juggernaut" is.
AMEN! We can't give up. I encourage EVERYONE to study the US Constitution and the founders as we have been. We have been born into a miracle, and have a responsibility to be good stewards of it!!!!!!!!! One of the best books for this (after The Constitution itself),is The 5000 Year Leap, available at Amazon. Keep making noise, even when people get tired of it. When friends and neighbors start to wake up, at least they'll know who to go to for a true and informed source. PRAY, folks!
Another good book from which to draw some wisdom and insight into what's going on today in America: "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
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