Healthcare

Why are the Democrat's so determined in forcing the current Health care reform down out throat. We currently have a number of systems that the government runs and we can see how well they work. The VA has mistakenly informed over 1,200 vets that they had a fatal disease when they don't and the VA as also infected untold numbers of vets with diseases they did not have when they entered the system through neglect, mismanagement, or just plain not caring.

So to my way of thinking if the government can't run the current systems what makes them think that they can handle something as large as they are proposing.....they CANNOT. All they will end up doing is driving employers to drop the coverage that they currently offer to their employees and have them placed of the government rolls because it will be cheaper in the long run for the companies to do that.

Now that the Democrats have a super majority depending on what happens now in Mass. with the passing of Kennedy, they believe that they can force through legislation that they have been trying to pass for the past 60 years.

We have all heard or seen what is occurring at the Town hall meetings that are currently being held. I heard about one where the Rep. hosting it told one person who asked a question that there is nothing the voters can do to stop this from occurring, there is no way to currently vote him out and that in four years when he does come up for re-election that it was going to be a done deal.

Instead of trying to force something on us that we don't want, why doesn't Congress and the White House pass laws that we know will help to lower the expense of health care. Start by putting a cap on lawsuits (say 1-2 million), end the practice on awarding punitive damages, etc. If a limit were to be placed on lawsuits that will lower the cost that doctors and hospitals have to pay out to insurance companies to stay in business to protect them from out lawsuit happy country.

As other people have stated in the news with the Democrat's in control we will end up with Socialized Health Care because that is what they think will solve the current problem but that will just provide them the excuse that they are looking for to pass more laws to move us way from our current form of government to one where only the politicians and their cronies have privileges (reminds me of the USSR and we see what happened to them).