The Health Care Reform Bill is nothing less than an attack on the Free Market System and a takeover of Healthcare. It will exclude private insurance, result in doctor shortages(I am among those that will likely retire), Hospital closures, delays in treatment, and cost containment efforts that will destroy any chance at improving healthcare or improving treatments for decades to come.
The cost to insure the 6-12 Million that are uninsurable or working poor would cost about 40Billion and could be accomplished from the moneys that have been set aside for the Stimulus bill and save the American economy, save the health care system (which although expensive really is the best system in the world), and could be done without further intrusion of the federal government into the care of its citizens. Government intrusion and controls which have been increasingly occuring since Medicare was passed really does interfere with overall patient care and raise the cost of healthcare.
As for those who can but choose not to buy health insurance the solution is simple. As an American citizen they have that right, but they also have a responsibility to pay their bills. If they stay healthy then so be it. if they need care and don’t have insurance just require them to pay their bills.
I am a solo practitioner and will be providing coverage for my practice (at a high personal expense) while I go to Washington this week. I believe that if Healthcare Takeover passes it will be the end of a free market economy. Trying to reverse such effects is almost impossible.
Although the socialists are very cleverly trying to delay and gradually phase in the effects of the degree of intrusion into American life that this Bill represents it does not minimize the catastrophic effects it will eventually will have.
