Posted by
Glenn Flowers on Monday, October 05, 2009 6:36:54 PM
While listening to C-Span’s coverage of the Senate debates on healthcare reform, I learned quite a bit about what they are proposing for America. The most disturbing factor is that every person in America will be required to purchase healthcare insurance. It won’t be up to you as to whether or not you want or can afford health care insurance, it will be the law. By the way, you can take all the president’s promises and throw them out the window because they aren’t true, none of them. Abortion will be covered under the Planned Parenthood clause. Illegal immigrants will be covered because the bill doesn’t allow any hospital to turn away anyone requiring treatment.
During the debate one republican senator spoke out saying that, as far as he could tell, the average cost of insurance today was approximately $2200 for an individual, $14,000 for a family. He then stated that, if his math was correct, the mandatory policy that eveyone must buy if this reform bill passes will cost $9000 for an individual, and $33,000 for a family. Most policies now in effect cover 80% of the total cost and the patient covers 20%. The new, more expensive policy that the proposed reform bill mandates covers only 65% and the patient pays the 35% balance. When a senator spoke out in objection to the higher cost and lower coverage, reminding the committee that the purpose of reform was to provide lower cost and cover 100% of the population, the only response from the committee was that they could lower the cost by lowering the percentage of coverage to 50%.
I watched these debates for three days and never once was there any suggestion that the reform initiative be abandoned, no suggestion to reform the malpractice industry, no suggestion for allowing insurance sales across state lines, nothing constructive, only destruction. Not once was a suggestion or complaint by a republican even taken seriously. The committee did make quite a deal about not having any legislative language to work with, as the bill has not been written. What they are working with is a 250 page list or outline of the general aspects of a bill that will only be written if passed by the House and the Senate. This is the same as giving Congress a blank check.
Folks, America is in a deep mess if either this or any health care reform bill or the Cap and Tax bill passes. If both become law, you will not recognize America any longer. Your pay will be dictated by Washington, your children’s future will not be theirs to pursue. Washington will put controls on your heater and air conditioner allowing them to set how warm or cool your house will be. Washington will design all automobiles, aircraft, trains, and everything else that uses energy. The food you eat, what you drink, what you drive, when and where you vacation, where you live, where you work, whether you belong to a union, whether you own a computer, what is available online, what your children learn, what they wear, how many children you have, everything will be mandated by the government because of these two bills and their requirements.
If ever there was a time demanding action by citizens it is now. We need to triple whatever effort we have put forth in the past. It is a hard thing for democrats in congress to vote down two of the president’s signature pieces of legislation, we must make it even harder to vote for them. Once in place, these laws would have a profound effect on the nation that would be near impossible to reverse.
We can’t afford to wait until 2010, that is why the Obama administration is in such a hurry to ram this bill through.
Glenn Flowers