GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER

As a firm believer in the Constitution of the United States, I have not read any where in this amazing document that says the Government of the United States is under any obligation to provide healthcare to the American people nor is the Government supposed to support the people. The way this should work is that the people have their jobs, get their wages, pay taxes and that should support the Government, but the Government with their misguided attitude has made people dependent and lazy through multigenerational dependence on the welfare system in America. People should have some pride of ownership by working and spending their own money on what they buy. We have ruined that concept by allowing these people to use and abuse the Welfare System. Now they want to do the same thing with the healthcare system. The more they make us dependent upon the Government, the more they can control us, and maybe you don’t mind that situation, but I resent Government interference in my life as long as I am a free American. Being a free American means to me that I have the right to work, buy what I can afford, succeed without government interference as long as my activities are legal and you know I also have the right to fail as a free American, but no able bodied person should be able to sit on their butt and have me support them just because they are too damn lazy and too damn dependent on the government to look, find or do a job. I have nothing against giving someone a hand up, but it is wrong to make the working people of America support the non-working people. Putting 30 million more people on the insurance rolls is not going to insure healthcare for all of these people anyway. How in the world do you find enough doctors to treat all of these people when 65 per cent of the doctors do not like this government takeover of the healthcare system and will be quitting (mine included)? At the present time the Democratic Congress is cutting the amount paid to doctors who treat Medicare patients. I don’t hear anything about the Medicaid patient benefits being cut – just Medicare. Medicare patients were working people who have paid into this through required payroll deduction for years. Medicaid patients are most often people who have not paid into the system because they don’t work! Medicaid patients pay $1.00 or $2.00 for a prescription. Medicare patients pay for a supplemental insurance monthly for prescription drugs and my co-pay is $10.00 to $40.00 per prescription. When the total amount I pay for my prescription plus the amount the insurance company pays for the same prescription totals $2,830.00 in a year – then I have to pay for the total cost of that prescription. Medicaid people do not have such restrictions.

We spend more money per child on education than any country in the world and do you think it is appreciated? Look at the dropout rate. That does not show much appreciation for our education system, but if you look at the kids in Iraq, they literally die to get an education and would love to have the opportunities that are afforded to American Children. In other words, the more we give, they more they take and the less they appreciate because they have no skin in the game!

It is time people started taking care of themselves instead of the government trying to take care of them. Now anyone who wants to donate to the cause of taking care of these dependent type people – go ahead and set up and fund and the do gooders can donate to their cause, but it should not be regulated that everyone must do the same. Like I said, I will help people who are down on their luck to get back on their feet, but I didn’t take the lazy asses of the US and the illegals immigrants to raise.