Why this healthcare process must be shut down
The bills are filled with deception:
· Literally, in the middle of the night and behind closed doors, Senators added unconstitutional clauses such as one that prevents future Congresses from ever repealing sections of the bill.
· While Senators claim otherwise, page 1189 rations healthcare by modifying or eliminating current coverage provided to Seniors under Medicare.
· Though Mr. Obama publicly stated 8 times that the healthcare debate would be televised and transparent, the process became so secretive that frustrated C-Span CEO, BrianLamb, requested that Congress air the hearings. He was unsuccessful.
· Though most never realized it, the foundation for the Federal management of your doctor’s practices was quietly slipped into the Stimulus bill months before healthcare was even written.
The bills contain broad and questionable power transfers:
· Pages 148 -149 of the Senate Bill pass broad powers to the Health and Human Services Secretary forcing doctors to follow whatever regulations the Secretary may impose.
· The entire thrust of the House and the Senate healthcare bills is to move unprecedented decision making power from the 535 members of the Legislative branch to the Executive branch, thereby seriously damaging the checks and balances that protect all Americans.
The bills are packed with intentionally misleading text:
· For example: Section 202 of the House bill euphemistically reads: “Protecting the Choice to Keep Current Coverage.” The section actually removes that choice.
· While the Senate bill purports to improve healthcare, 2400 pages of legislation actually shifts decision making authority from your doctor to the Federal government, forcing doctors to choose between doing what is right for the patient or avoiding government imposed penalties.
The bills have become an incubator for a bureaucratic muddle:
· If signed into law, committees will translate each section of the final bill into hundreds of lines of regulations that will govern if, when, how and what medical care you are entitled to.
· A simple act of choosing a prescription or opting for knee surgery would become a government panel decision.
· Insurers will be hamstrung with regulations that, even if well-intentioned, will drive up already high premium costs and increase the rationing insurers are charged with now.
· Congress has still not identified who the uninsured are that need covering.
· While the administration and Congress have maligned insurers, there is nothing historically to indicate they would do anything other than worsen the problems that already exist.
· The bill is so large that backdoors for future expansion can easily be hidden in the passages.
Our healthcare system can be improved. Yet, in spite of deceptive statistical applications, America has the best healthcare system on earth. The cure rate for a man in the US diagnosed with prostate cancer is 99.7% as opposed to Europe where 25% will die of the same disease. Twice as many European women diagnosed with breast cancer are likely to die than women with the same diagnosis in the US.