By: Marion Cook

Marion Cook — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:49:32 +0000

If what you say about Scott is true, in an odd way it makes a point for those people who are against a health care bill so massive it takes 1000 pages to write it. Medicare/Medicaid fraud is, in fact, huge. Why add another government program that will also create the opportunity for additional massive fraud (remember the World Food Program scandal at the UN? Huge bureaucracies create great opportunities for dishonest people). And I don’t buy the idea that there are right-winger “actors” out there staging the tea parties. Although I have not attended any congressional open houses or rallies or marches, I have two additional reasons for opposing this particular (rather, these particular yet un-meshed pieces of legislation): 1) immediate tort reform would drastically bring down health care costs. Investigate the reforms done in Texas and the result. Democracts oppose tort reform (perhaps because it is from the wrong side of the aisle) because tort lawyers are 99.9% registered Democrats (by the way, John Edwards made his fortune off of sick people). 2) Interstate competition would lower health premiums (making them affordable to virtually everyone). Look at car insurance. That’s why Progressive, operating in many states, can often beat out GEICO or other companies….that’s why you enter you information on the internet to get competitive quotes for auto/home insurance. As long as the Democratic majority refuses to consider changes which are simpler (and thus will have fewer “unintended, unanticipated” negative impacts (which legislation always has) and more immediate, one has to question what the real agenda is. By the way, I am “just a housewife” and I don’t shout at people or carry plaquards made by other people. This is me talking.

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By: Marion Cook