Health Care Act

This is from an email that happened my way.


Fellow American Citizens,

The Health Care Act that is on the eve of being passed will be the single most important law being passed in this nation which will essentially nullify the Constitution and bring about a 'Change' that was never expected by supporters or the loyal opposition of President Obama. There is nothing in the act that will change the current system other than impose a massive tax by creating a new Government entitlement program. We are all familiar with all the other current Government entitlement programs such as Public Education, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Welfare, Public Housing and the rest of these ad naseum liberal plans, which are all financially failing.

The Health Care Act will initially act against and violate the 3rd, 4th ,5th and 10th Amendments in the Bill of Rights. The Executive Branch will have access to your health care, financial and personal information from employer and doctor. 15,000 new IRS workers being hired this week will enforce new taxes that this act will impose on us. This act will, for the first time in our nation's history, give the Government the power to actually impose on it's citizens it's will. This was not what our 'Founding Fathers' did with the Constitution, which was give us Rights that prevented actions being done to us by the Government.

The comparison ,of the tyranny that this Government is imposing on us, to auto insurance is a very poor argument. Driving is a privilege and not a Right. We drive on roads with other citizens, only after being licensed to do so, and have to get insurance to defer any accident that may occur. We are not forced to get car insurance if we do not drive and nor are passengers.
The Health Care Act will make insurance companies provide coverage that is not financially viable and will bring about their combined failure. This will lead the Government to come in and establish their public option. The State will eventually win this as it is difficult to compete with an entity that can print an endless supply of cash.

Europe is currently trying to stay afloat with it's expensive and lackluster health care system. They have been able to spend a large part of their GDP on their Social Medicine because the United States has been providing for their defense since the end of World War II. The Health Care Act will soon be too much for this nation to afford and their will not be the money to maintain the current military levels that we have. The current wars against Islamic Terrorism will have to be ended and an embolden enemy will be left behind. How long do you think it will take them to take action? There are also nation states that might also feel the same way.
Elections have consequences. Conservatives need to start voting for candidates that will bring back the spirit of American exceptionalism back. This is not a goal that can be achieved quickly but the prospects of 2010 and 2012 look promising. We need to bring this country back under the rule of the Constitution and that will start with the repealing of the abomination of the Health Care Act.

God Bless this country,
"the Shining City upon a Hill" - Reagan

Adrian Gregorio Jr
Captain, Infantry, USA(Ret)
1981-1989

This is my response to these two statements. I found them both valid and well written opposing views to the current health care issues.

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Michael Huyck,
Nice Democratic partisan talking points. Maybe you need to read the Health Care Bill and realize what is NOT in it. Like opening up insurance across state lines, and tort reform. The current bill will only raise tax's, enlarge the government, and scratch the back of the Unions. We all need to make sacrifices in life to take care of ourselves and our family. I had to pay out of pocket for years to have my daughter and wife covered. Government mandates like what are in this bill does nothing to lower cost, and make it more affordable. If anything small business will just drop coverage and pay the fine because it is cheaper and easier. No Health bill should be 2700 pages, and pass with a bi-partisan dissent.

Ray Peterson
US Navy Corpsman - 1999-2003 Veteran

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Please forward this to the original author of the email regarding healthcare.

I want to begin by stating that this is by far the poorest argument that I have seen against healthcare reform. Your email suggests that the negligence of the doctors had something to do with the NHS of England. The fault in this situation falls upon the oncologists, internists, and histologists that failed to properly identify a cancerous cervical biopsy. Why would you assume that the mistake of a few doctors would be representative of a whole system? You cannot, and your argument is very empty for making that assumption.

Furthermore, you suggest that this would represent the future of U.S healthcare. This might be true if U.S healthcare were to become a nationalized single-payer system (like in England). However, the current reform merely institutes a mandate for everyone to have insurance (like you need car insurance to drive) and establishes a proper exchange to purchase this insurance and provides subsidies for the less fortunate. Current reform requires Americans to purchase insurance from PRIVATE companies (unfortunately there is not a public option choice). This refutes the second art of your assumption and truly shows your ignorance of current healthcare politics and policy.

Having a sister and mother both diagnosed and treated for lymphoma, I know how scary cancer is. But how would a person without insurance or access to healthcare know to be screened in the first place? Uninsured people have no means to access proper screening for things such as cervical cancer. In my mother’s case a dentist noticed the swollen lymph node which sent my mom to the oncologist.

Doctor’s and nurses do not practice for the sake of bureaucracy; they do it to heal the sick. It’s a Hippocratic Oath they take that no one can come in between. At the present insurance companies pocket the majority of their profits and pay themselves rather than investing those profits back into the system where they are needed. Insurance companies are the ones currently denying care to the sick with pre-existing conditions. Yes, this system needs reform fast and is worthy of the current argument. However, your conservative talking point is a complete fallacy and I just wanted to point that out.

Respectfully,

Michael Huyck

U.S Army OIF 2006-2008 Veteran


I want to thank these two fine Veterans for their service to our country.