Subject:
Health Insurance Reform
To:
Sen. Harry Reid
November 1, 2009
I have written you before regarding my opposition to the health care reform bills being introduced by Democrats in the House and the Senate. The latest efforts to introduce legislation that will ultimately reduce the greatest health care system in the world (albeit flawed), that people from other countries come here to get because they would have to wait months or even years in their home countries, to the lowest common denominator. Senator Reid, I sincerely hope and pray that you will not vote for such a bill. I know you are involved in writing this legislation, yet I believe the public has not had time to debate all of the options. This is too big to rush the process. Frankly, you have done much behind closed doors, and this is unacceptable to your constituents.
Yes, reform is needed but these 1,000-page plus bills take the wrong approach completely. Please listen to your constituents and do what is right. I have attached some articles by the economist Thomas Sowell that are running in Investor's Business Daily. I respect Mr. Sowell's considered opinions and I think he, among many, many others, is right. Health insurance reform (and why don't we call it that, instead of something that misleads the public and the rest of the world into thinking that people are dying on our streets) is a very complicated issue and there are many sides to the story and many ways to approach it without creating a brand-new government "business." I think it is fair to say that a majority of Americans are not sanguine about a government controlled enterprise actually working. Government enterprises are famous for losing money, not making it. The Postal Service and Amtrak are just a couple of examples, which provide useful and important services, but cannot turn a profit. Put those businesses in the hands of the private sector and watch what happens! I DO NOT WANT my health insurance, and by extension, my medical care, to become one of those. When a growth on one of my ovaries was discovered several years ago, I had surgery to remove it within a month. It turned out to be benign, but what if it had not been, and I had been forced to wait months for surgery? Would I have ended up with an inoperable cancer? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS.
Read these articles by Thomas Sowell on www.investors.com: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis...
This is only one of many, many voices of reason on this subject of health insurance reform.
I repeat, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT VOTE IN FAVOR OF THESE BILLS. Have the open debate that was promised to the American people, not closed-door wheeling and dealing. I implore you. - Michele G. Mueller
Las Vegas , NV
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