Healthcare Reform bill, what's the rush?

There are plenty of problems with our health care. I am the first to admit it. But. You can be a bum living under a overpass and walk into most hospitals and get cared for. If you have no health insurance you will still get cared for. Yes, you will get a bill. They will take payments. It does cost you. But you do get it. And it shouldn't be free.

We need to reduce the costs of our health care. Not increase the amount it will cost each and everyone of us. And letting the government take over this private sector will in effect be doing just that.

We need to be able to get the treatment we need, not be told it wasn't going to be allowed. We are already getting that with our insurances, we don't need the government butting in also. We need to reduce costs, stop letting the insurance companies tell Doctors how to run their businesses. The overcharging for procedures needs to be addressed and patients not paying for their bills needs to be addressed.

Also what is the big rush to push this health care bill through. Even the president admits he doesn't know what is in it. Something this important needs to be carefully looked at. Not blindly pushed through. Getting fined for not having insurance! Being forced to have a certain type of insurance. Being told you can't get the treatment you need!

And today I hear one of the things on the bill is a mandatory end of life counseling for the elderly to be done twice a month, more if the elderly person is sick. Hummmmmm. Since they will be denying pacemakers, dialysis, heart surgery or any other treatments that might make you live longer then your productivity would it not make sense they would give you counseling on how to cope with your not being needed anymore. Will the Hemlock society run it? Hey, this is what all the people who lost their jobs in this new economy can be trained for. Counseling the elderly on their upcoming deaths. How soon before they nudge us in that direction rather then let nature take it course?

Health care needs to be fixed. But not with this health care reform. Ask anyone who will be voting for it what all is in the bill they won't be able to tell you. And that is wrong. We also need to get rid of Tort reform. With the lawyers running the government though chances of that are slim. So we get test after test we don't really need so the doctor can cover his butt. Sue this drug company, sue this doctor, sue sue sue.

And that's what I think. Whats the rush. Whats really in this bill. And if you believe it will really help us, the people being asked to pay for it...... I have some swamp land I want to sell you.