More intervention means more complexity

In response to Mr. Ramsey’s opinion of the need for health care reform (Daily Bee, Dec. 10), I applaud his concern for the welfare of the general public, but I feel he is not looking at the overall picture.

In his first paragraph he talks about the purported rise in supplemental insurance for Medicare. Isn’t that due to the fact Medicare doesn’t pay the prevailing costs, and causes too much paperwork?

Doctors are logically beginning to refuse more and more Medicare patients. Weren’t these same politicians talking about how Medicare was going broke just a few years ago?

He talks of excessive insurance costs. Maybe if Congress only addressed the problems at hand, this could be solved. What about allowing insurance companies to insure in all 50 states? What about tort reform? It wouldn’t take 2000 pages of convoluted law to accomplish these goals.

How many more bureaucracies will be established? He talks of federal deficit reductions. Has there been much federal history to make him feel comfortable with that assumption?

He discusses how AARP is working hard to pass this legislation. Actually they are waffling on this and are losing an enormous amount of membership. The news talks about people losing their homes because of medical bills. Really? There are so many programs out there to help people with their medical. No country in the world shows the compassion this country does for it’s unfortunate. By the way, how many of the reported 31 million people uninsured just simple refuse to purchase insurance because they want the premium money for other uses? Is the government going to demand they purchase insurance?

I don’t purport to know all the answers, but we all need to listen to both side of the issue and then look at the far-reaching effects of any legislation. The more the government gets involved, the more complex our lives get and the less freedom we have for even our most simple daily decisions.

I invite all those who believe Congress can pass any health care legislation that will benefit our citizens, to review what they really want. The more we are taken care of, the less we, and our country, prosper. Oh, by the way, the extreme cost for some prescriptions is because millions upon millions was invested to invent the product. You have the right to pretend the product was never invented and just don’t purchase it.

MIKE NASH

Sagle