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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	I don't want them tinkering
	Date:	5/9/2009 9:14:52 AM

Tell me you are kidding about Medicare working well. And believe me I know this issue extremely well because my Mom who is 77 and lives with me relies on it. I pay thousands of dollars each year to cover the gap in this program, not to mention the cost of the Prescription Drug Program. Also, and the final nail in the Medicare coffin, is that it is headed to insolvency. What does that mean? HIGHER TAXES!

What you don't understand about a government plan, even if voluntary, is that soon no one will have a choice. I can tell you with 100% certainty that if there is a government plan my taxes are going up and consequently I am going to drop my company plan as will millions of other small businesses. I am not going to pay both.

And what is 100% clear from socialist countries like Canada, Great Britian, etc. is that there will be rationing because it is the only way the government can control costs. In some European countries that have legalized euthanasia senior citizens are terrified to go to the hospital because they are often euthanized. Great way for the government to save money on their health care.

Don't believe me, read Tom Daschle's book. He explains their thinking quite well and states explicitely that health care ddecisions should be made by a government employee that can weigh the costs versus the benefits. Your Mom too old? Sorry, that cancer therapy is just too expensive. She has to do the patriotic thing and go home and die.

That's the way it is and apparently we are stupid enough to go like sheep to the slaughter. Well I don't want that for my Mom or my wife or my children and I am fighting this slouch to socialism. You voted for it......