Cutting to the Chase on the Health Care Bill

Editor’s Note: I receive regular emails from Mr. LeBaron’s organization and respect their efforts to reform government and restore accountability. He makes some interesting points about problems encountered by other nations that have implemented nationalized health care and wisely cautions us on rushing though legislation pushed forward by the political winds or through deception by powerful interests. The passing of the Federal Reserve ACT with barely a quorum during Christmas recess in 1913 is the most outrageous example that comes to mind, but there are many others that have bypassed the democratic process and changed our lives forever.

Let’s cut to the chase and quit squabbling ove  costs, etc., with regards to the healthcare bill.

The real questions which people want to know are:

1. Is it going to save lives and how many will it realistically save per year?

2. Will it factually increase the quality of care in America?

3. Will this instead result in a genocide where thousands of more American lives are prematurely lost every year than are saved?

4. Will hundreds of thousands or tens of millions of Americans have their suffering and agony prolonged for weeks or even months due to waiting and denial of service?

Does anyone know?

This 1,990 page bill is just barely coming out and yet the plan is to vote on it this week.

Here are my reasons for concern:

If a person feels bad enough to need to see a doctor, there is something wrong, and to have to wait weeks or months for hospital care will undoubtedly result in deaths and pointless suffering.

England, Europe and Canada, from the information I have, have problems with delivering timely medical care to those who need it. This means that suffering is prolonged needlessly. This is inhumane.

And when medical care is that slowly delivered, people die, they lose arms and legs, they lose their vision and become crippled. This is why people from Europe, the UK and Canada come to America – because they don’t want to die or experience agony for long periods of time, and they want the best possible medical care.

If we lose even a handful more lives due to governmental healthcare, I say it is not worth it. If we lose thousands of more lives due to this, then it is not murder. It is genocide – plain and simple.

Poor service is poor service. Hundreds of thousands or even tens of millions of Americans do not deserve to have their agony prolonged with weeks or months of additional suffering just because Congress and Obama wanted to take over healthcare. At some point this becomes tantamount to torture, and for no reason – if indeed poor service results government run healthcare, which appears to be the case.

I bring this up because I have seen a number of videos where people either from Europe or Canada (where the governments run healthcare) end up coming to America for their medical care.  I recently saw a video of a woman from Canada who was told her surgery was elective, so couldn’t get the surgery in Canada.  She then came to the States, discovered she only had a couple of weeks to live, and was given the surgery immediately and now lives a happy healthy life.

It’s this kind of bad service that worries me.

So, is there going to be more suffering with government healthcare and are more people going to die prematurely because of it? Are we actually giving wings to the Grim Reaper?

Has any research been done along these lines to find out the consequences of this healthcare reform bill? Is there a death toll? Will it prolong agony for many?

Is this really a death or genocide bill in disguise?

Part of the problem is that Congress and our Presidents have gotten into a reckless habit of rushing bills through so quickly which are so poorly thought out that catastrophe results and the benefits are few. Witness: AIG, Cash for Clunkers, T.A.R.P., 2009 Stimulus, buying stock in financial institutions and paying 71 billion dollars over market value for it, the Patriot Act, repealing the Glass-Steagall Act, revising the Community Reinvestment Act (two of the causes of our current recession), and the list goes on.

One of the reasons this happens is because our legislators are not required to read, understand or perform a real due diligence on the bills they pass. They take someone else’s word for it. Well, that’s not working out very well for America, is it? Though, it sure is lining pockets for a select few.

It’s time for an impartial actual analysis of the consequences of this 1990 page healthcare bill (and ALL bills up for a house vote). Forget about the cost to the American people for healthcare. That is not the primary concern of Americans – right or wrong.

Is it going to result in taking American lives and prolong the pain of American citizens, and if so, how many per year?

We need to know!!

It’s time we passed some laws that require our legislators to read and understand the bills they pass, and before they pass them, have those bills posted continuously on the Internet so that we the People can check their work.

Congress is obviously a lost cause. However, we can get a law like this passed at the state level, so that our future members of Congress will be able to clean up the mess our current and past Congresses have made.  This initiaive can be seen here:  www.honorinoffice.org/measure.p hp

Sincerely,

Jerrol LeBaron

Executive Director

www.HonorInOffice.org

818-273-8164