Your letters: Individuals should reform health care

Posted August 5, 2009 at 11:42 am and filed under Opinion.

America’s healthcare system has serious flaws that must be addressed. Millions of Americans lack insurance, and medical costs continue to consume an increasing amount of GDP. We must overcome these hurdles by rejecting government-run healthcare and implementing reforms that empower individuals, drive down costs and provide 100 percent of the population the opportunity to receive healthcare.

Government cannot control costs; consider the $59 trillion in unfunded liabilities that, beginning in 2017, will threaten the solvency of this great nation. Liabilities for Medicare and Medicaid, both of which are government-run insurance programs, total $30.4 trillion (to help break the numbers down:  North Carolina plans to spend a total of $35 billion this year, or about .12 percent of $30.4 trillion) and provide insurance coverage to 91 million Americans — only a third of the population.

Uncle Sam provides these health benefits by kicking the bucket to the future generations, expecting them to pay for the “freebies” of today. If the government insures more Americans, expect those same liabilities to increase dramatically and to threaten the future prosperity of your children and grandchildren.

There are reforms that can occur now that will ultimately help lower costs and insure all Americans.  Government can allow insurance to be sold across state lines, forcing insurers in high-cost states to compete with low-cost providers. The government can provide universal tax credits, which would allow Americans to purchase their own insurance, thus putting patients, not the government, in control of their healthcare while ensuring the opportunity for everyone to be insured.

For the reasons mentioned above, I ask that you make a quick call to Sen. Kay Hagan (202-224-3121) and insist that she oppose a government-run healthcare plan and vote against any plan that puts the control of healthcare in the hands of anyone other than each individual American.

Tricia Erickson
Hampstead, N.C.

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2 Responses for “Your letters: Individuals should reform health care”

  1. AntonioSosa says:
    August 5, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    WHO wrote the health care bill?
    Does anyone know WHO wrote the health care bill that Obama and his accomplices are shoving down our throats? Obama and most Congress people have not even read it! They just want it approved!

    Why don’t those who WROTE the bill explain to us – Why must we further destroy the economy and steal more than a trillion dollars more from our children and grandchildren so the government can run our health care? Why must we be MANDATED to receive end-of-life counseling when we turn 65?

    It seems all these bills that Congress is being coerced to approve have been written by the same U.S. enemies who selected Obama to impose Marxism on us! Who wrote the health care bill? The Apollo Alliance, George Soros, the United Nations? Who is Obama working for? He’s certainly not working for us!

    No wonder the Russians are gloating. “The American descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple…” http://english.pravda.ru/opini…pitalism-0

  2. benny says:
    September 20, 2009 at 9:16 am

    AntonioSosa ,
    The Apollo Alliance wrote both the Health Care and Cap and Trade Bill.
    Our own Congress did not write it, that explains why they do not know what’s in it. We elect officials, pay them a salary and give them perks and they do not even write the bills.
    Google: Apollo Alliance to check them out.

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