Derek Anders

Well Congress finally passed health care reform. The Liberals have been trying to do this for decades and it has finally been done. Now all that is left for congress to do is merge the House and Senate bill together and send it up to President Obama to sign. This is supposed to be taking place in January 2010.

Now that the debate on the bill has come to a close we have a lot of work to do to clean this mess up. It is time to start organizing, volunteering, and getting involved in some form or another.

Many Governors are talking to their Attorney Generals to see if this bill is even Constitutional. Hopefully they can find something that makes it unconstitutional. Hopefully we can repeal this bill and start fresh with real ideas and real solutions. Real solutions are out there that do not involve taking over 1/6th of the American economy.

It looks like the only way for the Democrats to pass this monstrosity that they call health care reform is to buy votes. Many Senators are receiving  payoffs for voting in line with Senator Harry Reid. The Following is the payoffs that some Senators will receive if they pass health care reform with the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act.

• Chris Dodd (D)Connecticut – $100 Million for construction of a university hospital
• Mary Landrieu (D) Louisiana – $300 Million for Increased federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster’
• Ben Nelson (D) Nebraska – Permanent exemption from the state share of Medicaid expansion for Nebraska
• Bernie Sanders (I) Vermont – $10 Billion in new funding for community health centers
• Carl Levin (D) Michigan – Exemption for non-profit insurers in his state and Nebraska. All other non-profit insurers in the other 48 states must pay an excise tax.

There are most likely more of these incentives for Senators to vote for the health care bill. I thought that this bill was suppose to help all Americans but it seems like some Americans are getting more “help” than others. This is why the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act should not pass. There are to many pet projects written into the bill. One of President Obama’s campaign promises was to cut all of these pet projects out of new bills. I guess he is not worried about it.

Contact your Senators and especially Senator Ben Nelson and tell them not to vote for this bill. America deserves real health care reform not this garbage that congress is trying to pass right now.

The senate is working on their version of the health care bill. This bill is going to destroy the healthcare system  as we know it. Nothing in this bill is going to help fix the system. As I have said before a couple of things need to be done to fix the system. First is TORT reform and the second is opening up the insurance companies to be nation  wide companies. Doing these two simple things will have a great impact on the cost of health care.

When your roof is leaking, you don’t destroy the whole house and start over, do you? Of course not. This is what the left is trying to do. Destroy the whole system and start over. What I don’t understand is why are they even trying this. Socialized medicine has been tried in many different countries over the years and they all failed. Nothing about the system that they want to implement works. Why doesn’t the left see that?

What can we do? Well one of the things we can do is to let people know that this system doesn’t work. Another thing that can be done is to contact your senators and representatives in Washington and tell them not to vote for the bill. If they don’t listen to you and vote for the bill any way, vote against them in the 2010 election if they are up for reelection.

So the American People “want” health care reform and the Democrats in power aim to give it to them. You don’t replace the roof if you have a leak, you fix the leak. So it makes since not to destroy the system, just fix what is wrong with it.

If you really want the price of health insurance to go down, Congress needs to do two things:

1. TORT Reform
2. Letting health insurance companies be nationwide, not specific to certain states as they are now.

Doing these two things will dramatically lower the cost of health insurance allowing “lower class”(using lower class loosely) to afford better coverage.

There is nothing wrong with the health care system in America besides for the cost. Letting the Government get involved in the health care system would be going in the wrong direction  of the health care reform that people want.