Health Care Reform Proposal

George Washington wrote:

"It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes."

NOTE: Health care is NOT evil, but the current proposed health care reform package is definitely a mistake. It will provide benefits (i.e. entitlements, though they are not 'entitled' according to our nation's Constitution) at a cost that cannot be sustained by our nation at this time.

The health care reform legislation proposed by The White House and congressional leaders should be opposed for the following reasons:

1. The whole process has been deceptive. The real goal appears to be to establish over time a single payer, government-run health care system; however, the legislation is portrayed as primarily to extend health care coverage to the uninsured and provide more health care insurance options to the already-insured.

2. Congress already has a massive case of fiscal irresponsibility. In the face of an estimated $1.85 trillion federal budget deficit for FY 2009 and projected trillion dollar annual deficits for the foreseeable future, how can anyone in Congress vote for a health care plan which will cost at least $1 trillion over the next ten years (that's 10 TRILLION dollars in the next decade!).

3. Congress is facing at least $56 trillion of unfunded liabilities (future payments due for which the government will not have the funds to cover) due to its passage of the previous entitlement programs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

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How can anyone in Congress vote for a new entitlement program for health care when Congress has not even begun to face up to this unfunded liabilities problem???

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4. Federal funding of and control over health care is not authorized in the U.S. Constitution.
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James Madison, one of our nation's Founding Fathers, wrote:

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"The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction."

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NOTE: Read the Constitution - there is nothing about being 'Healthy' in there.