The future of healthcare in America now depends on parliamentary procedure.
This is the problem with government controlled anything.
The word of the day is no longer surgery, healing, or medicine.
Healthcare now depends on "reconciliation".
Isn't it ironic that reconciliation in congress means that democrats must divorce themselves from the republicans on this issue? This stuff makes me sick! I am grateful for the healthcare I have received throughout my life.
In 1957 I was born in a small rural hospital in East Tennessee with a club foot.
At 10 years old, doctors performed surgery to straighten my legs.
I would later become an athlete and routinely outperform others in physical activities.
I want to start a boxing league for guys over 50 right now.
My kids experienced numerous health problems landing them in hospitals.
We had multiple knee surgeries and one burst appendix.
Even with insurance, my family has qualified for the medical deduction on income taxes multiple times.
I have no complaints about the nurses, doctors, or hospitals.
I have never appreciated the complicated billing process or the mounds of paperwork required.
Like everyone, I hate how much medical care costs.
My greatest fear is that this healthcare plan will limit services, increase costs, and overall reduce the quality of care.
Obama promises just the opposite.
I hope he is right.
My problem is that once the government is in charge there is no accountability.
The progressives say that over 40,000 people die each year because they do not have access to healthcare.
Once this bill is passed, that stat will be hidden.
If the bill passes, will anyone question 10 years from now how many died due to lack of care? Even if 80,000 were to die the government would claim success.
They would say that 160,000 would have died without the bill.
Ditto on the costs.
I believe each of us will pay more for healthcare regardless of this bill.
The government again will boast of their genius for reducing costs.
They will say that costs would have skyrocketed without their intervention.
The big number is the uninsured.
Obama says this bill will insure 30 million people who do not currently have insurance.
Does the government have the names of those people and will they follow up in 10 years to see how many are in the program? That would be no, but they will proclaim loudly about the millions who received it.
When you get government control, you get political spin and no real accountability.
I listened to two doctors, on both sides of the issue, debate about the bill's effect on various medical procedures until my head was about to explode.
Each procedure carries it's own unique requirements, complications, and risks.
Is Nancy Pelosi really the best person in the country to provide a solution to this mess? I am getting sicker by the minute.