Health takeover will sharply reduce quality of care
Published 12:00 am Sunday, March 28, 2010
I have listened to or read most of the discussion on health care/health insurance reform that has taken place. We have the best health care system in the world. Does it have some problems? Yes, but they can be fixed without this takeover by the federal government.
This is the first step to socialized medicine. In all of the discussion, nothing has been said about who would take care of the 32 million who will be given health insurance. Nothing in this bill adds any doctors, nurses or health care facilities. That means the present system will be overrun and no one will receive quality care.
I worked in the health care field for over 30 years. Sister Mary Eva Loyacono, R.S.M., who was the administrator of Mercy Hospital when I went to work at the hospital, told me something that I have never forgotten. She said, “Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure.” That is true of this bill. You cannot cover all these people and give them what is promised without taxing to death our children, grandchildren and our great-grandchildren.
The legislation is unconstitutional in that it requires an individual to purchase something he or she doesn’t want. A lot of young people, just getting started, feel that they don’t need insurance. Why force them to buy a plan designed by backroom deals that will cost more than they can afford?
I hate to see what is happening to our great country. We no longer have the great statesmen we’ve had in the past. All the current group can do is see how much they can gain for themselves and how much they can tax and control our lives. They act like we don’t know what we need and how to provide for our families. They, the government, have proved they cannot run a business — just look at the Post Office.
Maybe we will wake up and vote the whole bunch out but, until then, may God bless America.
Robert E. Quimby
Vicksburg