Dear Editor:
Everyone agrees our health care system needs reform. The cost of
insurance is too high. Insurance companies have no qualms about dropping
people, sometimes with tragic consequences. The cost of healthcare is
exorbitant and baffling. Hospitals quote one price with insurance and
another, vastly different, without.
However socialized medicine, where the government makes healthcare
decisions for individuals (HR 3200 p. 30) is not the answer. A healthcare
system where seniors are to go in for "end of life counseling" every five years
seems downright ghoulish in its implications. (HR 3200 pages 425-430)
HR3200 is the House bill currently making its way though Congress. It is over
1000 pages long. It is widely said that many Congressmen and women who
have voted for it in committees, have not even read it. Then again, why
should they bother to read it. HR3200 exempts the members of Congress
from participating in the very system of healthcare they would foist on us!
Elected representatives all over the country are participating in meetings
where people have questions and concerns. The people are eager to let their
elected representatives know how they feel and how they want the officials to
vote on this particular question. And the people have a right to be heard. To
hold a "town hall" meeting at a time when a debate of this magnitude is
raging and fail to appear to answer questions, leaving your defense to a
small group of staffers who have no power to decide, seems to run the
gamut from disingenuous all the way to irresponsible. It shows nothing but
contempt and callous disregard for the welfare and concerns of the people. It
is ultimately unacceptable.
Recently, Congressman Ron Klein (D - FL)had one such meeting. It was
one of a regular series of monthly meetings at which he is not present and
his staff takes questions and comments. Considering the importance and
fury of the health care debate currently being played out, a minimal concern
for the opinion of his constituents would have indicated that maybe the
Congressman should have made an effort to show his face and answer
questions himself. He might have learned something. One
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