Government Health Reforms

Exactly the Wrong Solutions

We are opposed to the large scale health care and insurance reforms currently being considered in the House and Senate.

We are retired and paid into Medicare every year since its inception expecting to receive the promised benefits. As “War Babies” I’m sure we paid in the bulk of the costs and now that we are about to begin using the benefit we earned, there are plans to restrict the promised benefits, that’s pathetically immoral and a very dishonest betrayal.

That’s not what we paid for, and it’s not right.

We are opposed to any changes that will:

1. Reduce our already earned and paid for benefits. That’s wasn’t the promise.

2. Limit the ability of others to earn and pay for their own health needs.

3. Make government or any health insurance mandatory or require any monetary fine for not choosing it.

4. Increase any Government interference in our health care choices; or limit our ability to get and pay for the health care of our own choice.

5. Decrease quality and availability of private health insurance or care; or prevent doctors and hospitals from providing whatever services we request and pay for.

6. Pay for the health care costs of those not here legally; or pay for the health care costs of those who chose foolishly not to provide for themselves.

We have worked our entire lives, and sacrificed, and saved, in spite of oppressively high taxes, to provide our own retirement, health insurance, and health care needs.

We expected to use what we earned and saved to care for ourselves. We did not intend to pay for health care for others, certainly not for those illegally here, and certainly not for those who made poor life choices for themselves.

We already provide for necessary care for those handicapped people who cannot provide for themselves; prisoners, military veterans, mentally deficient, and those temporarily incompetent. I think that’s more than enough.

We do favor targeted reforms that will:

1. Force those who receive health care services to pay their own costs.

2. Redefine emergency services to those necessary to prevent eminent death (i.e. hemorrhaging) or severe impairment (i.e. brain damage).

3. Reduce litigated damages.

4. Reduce health care recipient and provider fraud.

5. Reduce the size, role, and constantly growing interference by the Federal Government in the personal health choices of its free and honorable citizens.