Obama’s Healthcare Plan by Charlotte Iserbyt
The Bear on Aug 20 2009 at 8:15 am | Filed under: Health Care
This writer was surprised to hear on the nightly TV news startling information regarding Obama’s health care plan (HR3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009). Unfortunately, I did not get the name of the person citing statistics related to coverage, but, if I recall correctly, he was an apolitical type out of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget or the Congressional Budget Office. The statistics he cites follow:
15% of Americans are uninsured. He went on to break down that 15% as follows::
5% are illegal aliens.
5% can afford coverage but prefer to spend their money in other ways.
5% are legitimately uninsured.
So, if the figures are correct, Obama’s health care plan (the complete trillion + dollar restructuring of our private health care system) will take place due to this uncovered 5%. I have no problem with that 5% being covered; in fact, I believe those individuals should be covered.
What I have a problem with is the radical socialist/fascist restructuring of our health care system, which a majority of Americans (60%) find acceptable or better, in order to take care of the legitimate 5% who should be covered.
If you need a new bathroom, do you tear down your whole house and build a new one in order to have that new bathroom?
Since I unfortunately cannot attribute the above information to any one individual…I couldn’t grab a pen in time to get the name…I decided to try to verify the information by calling Senator Olympia Snowe’s office in Washington, D.C. Perhaps the response from her office tells us more about what is wrong in our country than the fact that we are going to overhaul our entire private health care system in order to to deal with 5% of the population who are legitimately uninsured and about whom something relatively inexpensive, in comparison, should be done.
Phone call went like this: I asked to speak to a staff member regarding some questions I had related to the health care legislation. I was told that all staff members were in meetings. I asked if one of them familiar with the legislation could call me back. I was told no one could discuss the bill since it is a work in process. She told me that Senator Snowe could respond to my concerns by letter, that no one is able or willing to discuss the issue over the phone. From past experience I know that whatever response I receive by mail will arrive long after the August recess…not in time to affect the vote which will probably come sometime in September, and that I have often received letters from my elected officials, which do not even relate to the question asked in my original letter to them.
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