Health Care: Problems, Not Crisis

To Congress:

Our health care system does need to be improved, but we do not have a health care crisis. The problems we face now are the same problems we have faced for decades. Only 16% of Americans are uninsured - some by choice. Crisis is merely the vehicle being used to rush through hasty legislation that can not be debated or even read.

Have you yet signed the pledge to read this bill before voting on it? As of this morning you hadn't.

Even though we need improvement in our health care system, 84% of Americans are satisfied with their health care plan. Why is Congress seeking to throw away these plans and replacing them with a plan that has a history of only failure? Nationalized health care is socialized health care. Universal health care is socialized health care. Don't play word games.

The United Kingdom and Canada have nationalized health care. It has worked poorly in these countries. There are long waits, limited and denied treatment, and their health care systems are very expensive. Health care is driving these countries into bankruptcy. Massachusetts has universal health care. The results here are echoing those in the United Kingdom and Canada. If you wish to see how the United States government would run nationalized health care, you only need to look at Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA health care system. They too have long waits, limited and inferior treatment, and high expenses. This is compounded by fraud and bureaucracy. Now you want to share this misery with everyone else in the country. We say "No Thanks". We do not want your government run, government controlled plan.

The only thing Congress needs to do is to address uninsured citizens who can not afford health care insurance and are not eligible for Medicaid. This can be done in the private sector. Leave the rest of our plans alone. A government run plan would destroy private plans.

Signed,
The Electorate