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To the Editor:
President Obama’s health care summit revealed that Republicans support President Obama’s stated objectives of reducing health care costs, increasing affordability and expanding coverage.
Therefore, needy Americans could be receiving benefits today from Republican supported inter-state purchase of health insurance, decreased defensive medical costs from limiting frivolous lawsuits, reduced costs by allowing full health insurance premium deductibility, more reduced costs from expanding the health savings account program (HSA) which has been enthusiastically embraced and demonstrated enormous benefits around the country, coverage for pre-existing conditions, and support so needy citizens can afford health insurance.
The shocking lesson of the summit is that helping Americans is not President Obama’s top priority. Current Health Care “Reform” proposals reveal that the highest priorities are to grow the size of government, raise taxes, pay off union and other supporters, and increase controls on doctors, medical care providers, insurance companies, and individual Americans. Unbelievably, health care coverage is delayed for several years, so help for today’s hurting Americans is not even a top priority!!!
President Obama’s stated objectives, i.e., helping people, are just excuses for implementing his political agenda, it’s a typical “bait and switch” scheme.Many times since last summer I have been surprised to hear President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Senator Reid make obviously false claims about their Health Care “Reform” bills, e.g., no coverage for illegal aliens. They demonized doctors, health insurance companies, and even Americans with questions or concerns about replacing a system which provides excellent care to most Americans with a government controlled system.
Even though Republicans could not stop any legislation that the Democrats agree on, Democrats blamed Republicans for their own lack of progress. But these bills are so bad that bribes were needed to get Democrat support, e.g., from Nebraska, Louisiana, Connecticut, Vermont, Florida, the unions.
The inescapable conclusion is that President Obama and other Democrat leaders care more about their political agenda of gaining government control of health care, than they care about helping needy Americans.
Tell your Senators and Congressperson to abandon current Health Care “Reform” bills and start over in a true bipartisan fashion.
