CONGRESS AND THE HEALTH CARE FIASCO!

Health care proponents in Congress are saying that the new federal health care plans are "deficit neutral" - that means they say it will not add to the deficit. They are making the deficit the financial issue and not the real cost of these government plans. What they are NOT saying is that the reason they claim it will be deficit neutral is that they plan to pay for it with fees, penalties and taxes in the bills and limitations and controls on medical treatments and rationing of care.

The health plan Congress wants would not go into effect for 3 to 5 years, but the taxes would start right away! These government health care bills will cost us dearly, even before any possible benefits would occur.

Those people who have private health insurance plans that Congress calls "Cadillac plans" will be charged a 40% tax on the premiums! Instead of making health insurance premiums easier to pay by making them "tax exempt", Congress wants to tax them! Which plans will be considered "Cadillac plans"? No one knows!

They are still arguing that they are magically going to end Medicare fraud, which apparently has not been accomplished in the 40 years that Medicare has been in existence! Doctors will be financially penalized if they don't follow federal guidelines for how certain illnesses should be treated! Medical supplies and equipment over $100 will be taxed! And much more!

The federal demands being placed on insurance companies are going to mean significantly increased health insurance premiums that will affect 85% of Americans, not to mention the taxation that will be added to the premium cost!

People over 65 will be hit especially hard. Medicare will be cut by $500 billion at a time when 30 million more baby boomers will turn 65! In addition, the Congressional Budget Office report says that, after the federal health care is in effect, there will still be about 29 million people left uninsured.

Many doctors have said that if more federal regulation on their practice of medicine comes into effect, that they will leave the medical profession in America. (They would probably be very welcome in many countries that are leaving national health care programs and moving back toward private care!)

No one knows what final bill will eventually come out of Congress, but you can be sure that it will contain rules and regulations that will eventually cause the destruction of private health care! Private health care will become so expensive that it will be prohibitive to even the wealthiest of Americans. Employers will be forced by higher costs to discontinue offering private health plans and employees will have no choice but to go to federal health care plans. We will end up with single pay government health care, like Canada and England!

Are these government plans going to take the health system regarded as the best in the world and make it better? NO! Will they extend coverage to all uninsured people in this country? NO! Will these plans make health insurance premiums any cheaper? NO! Are these plans going to cost the average person more money? YES!

SO WHY ARE THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS DOING THIS? It's not about our health. It's about government control over our money and our lives. It's about their desire to have us dependent on government for our basic life requirements. It's about the arrogrance of power in Congress and the Presidency. They know that the majority of the citizens are not in favor of federally controlled health care, and yet they are insistent on passing it. What's good for the American people matters little to these power hungry bureaucrats! It's all about them (and they will have their OWN health insurance--not ours)!

TELL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES TO SCRAP THESE RIDICULOUS HEALTH CARE BILLS and pass legislation that will be economically sound and will not COST the American people an arm and a leg (literally!).