Heavy reading

The current health care bill presented by Nancy Pelosi is quite a beast in itself, almost 2,000 pages. How Congress can take simple reform and twist it into such gibberish is outstanding in its ignorance. Of course, most everybody has not yet been able to read it and the few who have can't make heads or tails out of it. And this is what you want passed?

There is not one program that you can name, not one including the military, that Congress has ever invested its time in that has been a success. Just to clarify the military comment, the military when left alone, as in the beginning of World War II, performs exemplary. However, once the Congress gets involved it goes to hell in a hand basket. Look at history. Since WWII, with the exception of the non-war in Grenada, the U.S. has not won a war to completion. Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, take your pick. The current administration won't even talk to their generals on the field, and you want these buffoons running your health care?

It is an oxymoron to expect efficiency out of a bureaucracy. People, this is your health we are talking about. To even imagine that your health care will be in the hands of a bureaucrat somewhere is frightening. And to ward off any unknowing criticism by the left, your author is a cancer survivor, a transplant recipient and I spend 41 percent of my current income on medicine, so I'm well versed on the topic.

It's not the care the Congress should be looking at but the stupid rules that prevent competition within the drug industry. Interstate transportation of health policies, tort reform, (which Senate President Harry Reid thinks is not worth the trouble because it only costs a few billion a year to the consumer. I don't know how he can justify that a few billion is small change, the ingrate, it's not his money). Stopping insurance companies from dropping people who use and need the system or because they have pre-existing conditions can all be done through tax credits to the industry that will offset their losses. It's not that complicated. It's the government that makes it so. Everything government does is burdensome. Don't be fooled, (as you were in the election of Obama) they have no agenda but the expansion of the bureaucracy and the power it brings, nothing else.

Passage of this health care bill will drastically reduce your liberty and your freedom. Every day a little nibble at and out of your freedom and liberty is performed by Congress, this will take a full bite out of it. A great sage once said "those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Please, my fellow Americans, do not be hasty. Let us give ourselves a little time to at least read this thing and debate it openly piece by piece, not ramming it through the Congress in the middle of the night as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has demanded. It is certainly a suspicious circumstance that some people who are presumed to know most about the health care bills seem bent upon forcing it on Americans without giving them time to know what they are doing. This is far too big a step to take without full disclosure and debate. Planetary rotation will not be affected by a fair and balanced debate.

Allan Walker

Weeki Wachee