National Healthcare Debate

If you feel the same way that we do, PLEASE, write to your representatives in Congress, as well as any other influential people, such as Obama, senators Snow & McConnell, and Representative John Boehner. Let them know how we feel! They represent US!

I sent one today as well and is following this one and just in case you missed my opinion feature in the Sun News 09/17/2009 that also will follow.

As you can see there are a lot of us who feel very strongly about this Health Care issue, so if you are one of those people please write an E-Mail or FAX to your Congressional Representatives

Subject: The National Health Care Debate

Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:31:01 +0000

Honorable Senators and Representatives;
    I am a retired Obstetrician & Gynecologist, born, raised, and educated in California. I now live in Myrtle Beach, SC and practiced for the last 18 years of my medical career in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I strongly believe in the fundamental goodness, planted within each human being and I have practiced medicine with this in mind my entire career. Nobody should be denied fundamental rights, including the right to emergency, life threatening medical care. I never practiced medicine in that manner and I don't believe that our present day actively practicing doctors do either.
   With these precepts in mind, I am here to state emphatically that Nationally governed and universally mandated medical care cannot work in the present set of working precepts that I have heard stated by President Obama and his Senate and House supporters. If government could have made a success of Medicaid and Medicare they would certainly have done so by now. You, "the government", has had well over 30 years to refine and streamline these government run programs and the only change has been the steady increases in the cost to the taxpayer and the steady decrease in reimbursements to the practicing physicians. To show their good and honest intentions, the President first stated that he would work in a bipartisan relationship with the Republican side and address the problem of Tort Reform as one example of this "good and honest intent". The latest Senate Health Care Bill, included a statement indicating the need for Tort Reform; but did not include one single change in our present medical liability tort system or even any future time when it would be addressed! The American Public is being fed a very large pile of "organic waste". Who would ever trust you lying and conniving politicians with the wealth and the health of our country, without much more scrutiny than you offer us at this time?
   Who ever you represent, whether it be me or my fellow countrymen from the other 49 states, I want you to know that we are no longer going to sit by and allow you to steal our country, laws, and freedoms, in the name of Democracy. If you don't listen, respond to public outcries, listen to your constituents, we will vote you out! Please listen to us and understand.

Respectfully,    Henry A. Gonzales, M.D.

Clyburn’s Health Care test proposal Sun News article on Sept. 4, 2009 09/05/2009

To the Editor,

There is an old saying that you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn is proposing a “Try, Test and Then What” approach of slipping in a Government run health care plan. Does he really think we don’t know what he is doing?

First, what plan would they use as the public option, HR #3200 or HR #3400 or one of the three Senate plans? HR #3200 has been raked over the coals by the taxpayers at the recent Townhall meetings and we know nothing about the others. We do know none of GOP plans will be used, that would be the end of Speaker Pelosi.

Second, what type of areas would be selected for test?   If Clyburn’s two main goals are solving the rising cost of private health insurance and seeing how many businesses would drop their employer provided plans, I think it would have to be areas which have a large mixture of large and small businesses, with company provided health insurance plans as well as individual insurance plans along with a sizeable uninsured population.

There is another saying that you have to get up real early in the morning to fool some of the people.

Even the best selected areas would produce the intended consequences that the Representative really wants. But think about this, why would the people that had insurance crossover to the public option knowing it is only a four year test? They may never get their old insurance back again if the test failed. If companies dropped their provided insurance and the employee’s crossed over to the public option and the test failed what would Rep. Clyburn’s exit plan be to get them reinsured? The exit plan would be to keep them on the public option. What would happen if the individual insured or just the people with no insurance signed up and none of the company provided people did, would the test be valid? Of course not but the Government would have to continue to insure them with the public plan and that’s the real intend.

Bingo, now we got the first inroad to a Government run Health Care plan which is what Clyburn wants. This is the back door way of getting a full blown Government Health Care plan passed and the taxpayer be darned. Nice try Representative Clyburn.

                                                                                    Jack Cruger

Dear Congressmen,

The rush to push government-run healthcare legislation through Congress is reason enough to staunchly oppose, but I am writing you today to let you know that I OBJECT to the government taking control of my private healthcare decisions.

Simply stated, the government has no business in the health care business! Do you in Congress think we the people are stupid, Clyburn is proposing a 4 year trial that would lead us into a Government run health care plan just buy the nature of the test.

Now we have this guy, Senator Max Baucus, with a non-public but all Government-controlled health care plan, which may reduce the deficit by $49 billion in ten years but tax everybody for everything in order to do it. That’s special isn’t it, we have a $14 trillion deficit and have you ever seen any Government program reduce the deficit. So what’s the plan next week?  

I have asked some of you before, when the President speaks about his plan, what plan is he talking about?? In a real world the people have the right and the freedom to select which health care company and plan they want, even if it was a company provided one. I think we should still retain that right and not have a one fits all Government plan which will be forced on us at some point in time.

Although cost is a huge concern (because I’m certain the working middle class will be required to fund yet another government plan), Americans are most concerned about government expansion and increased control over the lives of American citizens.

Any form of socialized healthcare will devastate our nation, and I urge you to stand for the rights of middle-class Americans who have made it clear that they DO NOT WANT GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE. We need Jobs first.

                                                                                    Jack Cruger

                                                                        E-Mail crugerjohn@yahoo.com