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Why not start with self-responsibility by each individual?
We, as adult citizens, with free choice should be allowed to take care of our own health. Each time you pick up a cigarette, you're making a decision. Each time you overeat and don't exercise, you know what you are doing. If you don't stay current on flu shots, vitamins and healthy eating, then it reveals something about you, don't you think?
If an individual does not demonstrate self-respect and self-love by taking charge of their habits and lives, why is it the governments responsibility? There are millions of us who do not desire a "nanny" state in which the government tells us what to do, how to do it and pays our way by using our own tax dollars. This monstrosity of a proposed health care bill should remind each of us how ludicrous it is to imagine the government could run accurate, fair and efficient health care. The legislators who are attempting to push this down our throats have managed to put every aspect we have objected to back into the bill, i.e. public option. How stupid do they think we are? Of course, any thinking citizen knows we need change. How about if we start by educating the public and allowing them freedom to make or break their own health. They're going to do it anyway, you know. Of course, disease strikes those who take good care of themselves. In that event, we have spouses who work and have insurance, medicare and medicaid. Medicare and medicaid need to be monitored for fraud. Why don't we clean house instead of burning the house down? So much fraud and waste is going undetected because it isn't politically expedient. Going after the "bad guys" isn't exciting like changing our entire government structure. We are being lied to by the current administration and frankly, millions of us are rebelling.
If this proposed 2000 page health care bill is passed we will have to turn out in droves, the millions of us who see this lie for what it is and vote these current representatives and senators out of office in 2010. Watch us.
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Sue Falkner Wood
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November 4, 2009; 4:40 PM ET
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Posted by: newsrdr1 | November 17, 2009 1:10 PM
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Hey while they are at it, let's just fix everyone. Outlaw smoking, drinking and fast food. Send all of us overweight people to a fat farm and mold us into what society portrays as healthy. This is not whta this country was founded on. FREEDOM , Liberties, and RIGHTS. Pretty soon we are not going to have those under this administration.
Yes Sue we, as a nation, need to band together to vote out all these CZARS who are ruining our country and put some people in there who are willing, able and have some experience in what it takes to run a country.
WOW !
Posted by: tonieb | November 12, 2009 5:03 PM
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" In that event, we have spouses who work and have insurance, medicare and medicaid." Seriously Sue?? Do you honestly think that this is something that applies to most Americans? Not everyone who cannot get insurance is married first of all, and also not everyone who is married has a spouse that has insurance. As a a single working woman who takes care of myself, but who has been denied health insurance based on a pre-existing condition, I am not only offended by this but also fail to see any logic in it whatsoever. I also have a mother who is 60 who lost her job this past year because the company she works for closed down and my father is self-employed. Where's their healthcare coming from there Sue? COBRA doesn't even apply here since with the closing of the company, their health plan is gone as well. This is not an isolated case, with our current economic instability in this country and an unemployment rate of 10.2%, a lot of people are in such a position. Sue, I would encourage you to look at the facts again because you are clearly under some kind of misapprehension that everyone's circumstances are as fortunate as your own.