It’s even more frightening that our so-called conservative Republican “loyal opposition” elected officials like you, who are supposed to be fighting for our individual rights, and protecting us from unconstitutional legislation, are not shouting from the roof tops that Congress has no authority to enact any legislation whatsoever under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution and in the face of the Tenth Article in the Bill of Rights over my right to have my own health care apart from any governmental meddling and certainly has no power to rob Peter to pay for Paul’s health care.

Why aren’t those of you who claim the mantle of being a “leader” in the Congress educating the American people about this travesty on Constitutional grounds and fighting against in, in the first instance, on Constitutional grounds?

Or may we assume that you really don’t believe what I set forth above?

Like, perhaps, this?

This young soldier can find the necessary words; why can’t you?

And I really would like a response. I’m in CD 5, next door to yours, and I displayed your bumper sticker on my car in 2008 — I may not before the primary in 2010. I’ve made donations to your past campaigns.

Whether any of that happens before your upcoming 2010 primary election depends on whether I see your response here and your actions from now on.

Thank you.

ColdWarrior

www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

Thank you Rep. Shadegg for this reality check on the Baucus bill! Just last night I was floored by his bill’s tax on me personally and how it will affect many more than just I. Read my diary about this new tax here.

How can they possibly be take seriously when they claim

1) spending $1 TRILLION over 10 years will save money.
2) They will save money by taxing, and driving up the cost of, 49 pages of medical devices.
3) Seniors won’t be disproportionately impacted when they are the major consumers of health care.
4) They will save money by taxing “Cadillac” insurance plans. Unless you’re in a union.
5) The public option will pay for itself but those below certain threshold won’t pay anything at all.
6) The bill will take money from you in taxes, wash it through the bureaucracy, and then return it to you as a subsidy so you can buy health coverage.

No, this is a convoluted scheme to put socialists in charge of our lives and must be fought tooth and nail.

The CBO operates by very specific rules. The fact that those rules can be manipulated to produce favorable results doesn’t make the Office complicit in the lies of the manipulator. An honest CBO score is one that follows the same rules it applies to every other piece of legislation, and that seems to be the case here unless you have evidence to the contrary. It is incumbent upon people, like the good Congressman, that have access to the media and the benefit of the facts, to show the voters how that score was manipulated to produce favorable results. Complaining about the referee does no good, particularly since 1) Republicans have used similar tactics in the past; 2) Past CBO scores of this very legislation have been just as unfavorable to the radical side of the debate; 3) The only way to fix the problem would be to allow the CBO more latitude in how it scores bills, which would only open the process up to more political manipulation; and 4) It’s just not fair to a number of people that have been doing a pretty good and fair job in a highly charged, emotional debate.

The CBO scored a vapor bill. There’s zero legislative language in it. Congress is about to vote on a conceptual bill. The final language could be light years distant from the conceptual version.

The Congressman’s allegation is that the CBO used 10 years of revenue but applied it against only 7 years of expenses. I would like to see the origin on this assertion. If true, it defies normal accepted accounting practice.

Congress is particularly incompetent and unqualified to design from scratch an entire healthcare system. Baucus’ bill is a drastic and unprecedented attempt to reengineer private industry. That alone is unconstitutional.

Healthcare reform should cost taxpayers nothing.

1. Allow the 1,300 health insurance carriers to compete in all 50 states and 7 (?) territories.

2. Implement sane Tort Reform, to lower the cost of Malpractice insurance and reduce the need for “defensive medicine”.

3. Phase out Medicare/Medicaid over the next 20 years.

4. If Congress insists on passing laws forbidding insurance companies from dropping sick people from their rolls, denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, and rejecting sick applicants, then everyone’s insurance premiums will go up to cover these high-risk people. The only way to minimize that is to create a high-risk pool that all carriers must support; just as the automobile insurance industry has done for men 18-24, with its attendant higher premiums.

5. Lower the cost of medical training, so the US can produce more qualified practitioners (instead of importing mediocre talent from less-developed countries). The Federal gov’t can devise credits to assist students and universities, and create a financial atmospehere that’s friendly to doctors and nurses. Tax breaks for Americans who choose to go into or remain in desired occupations.

I’m sure there are a few other ideas for how to improve our healthcare system; and most of them involve getting the gov’t's nose (and sticky fingers) out of it.

The Congress and other politction’s seem to be hard of hearing when the American people speak. But with your help they will listen to the next election results when they find out that they have been VOTED OUT.
Fred, Nashville N.C.