Health Care Reform

I saw the report on the local news about Claire McCaskill's town hall meetings on health care reform. What amazes me about Senator McCaskill and the Democratic party as a whole is that they just don't get it. It's not that the people who are protesting don't want health care reform and reduced costs for health care, it's that the taxpayers are tired of governments runaway spending. If Ms. McCaskill and her party truly want to help with health care, they should concentrate their efforts on preventing wasted taxpayer dollars by reforming medicare and medicaid. It is no secret that both programs are rife with fraud and waste and have been for years. How many more people could be covered under these programs if our politicians concentrated their efforts on improving the programs that are already in place?

I am against the proposed health care reform, because of the abuses of medicare and medicaid. If they are unable to monitor these programs effectively, then how do they expect to administer a new program? I believe Senator McCaskill, and most elected officials, are relatively intelligent people, so I can't imagine they truly believe a new bureaucracy is the answer to our nations' health care problems. So we have to ask ourselves, what is the motivation for passing such a program, that Warren Buffett, one of the worlds greatest investors says could lead to "banana republic type inflation?" Is it possibly a political move? Perhaps they think it will make the Democratic party appear to be champions of the poor? Well the poor have been speaking at the town hall meetings and no one seems to be listening. We didn't want government health care when Hilary Clinton was promoting it and we don't want it now. Not at the cost of higher taxes and inflation.

So, Senator McCaskill, as a citizen of the great State of Missouri and of the United States of America, let me spell it out for you and the rest of the people who are promoting the Obama administrations health care reform. Stop the madness of unbridled spending! NO NEW TAXES! NO MORE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS THAT INVOLVE INCREASED SPENDING! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND WE'RE WAY PAST THAT POINT! Let's concentrate on fixing the health care programs we have and paying down government debt!

Senator McCaskill, on the subject of credit card reform, you yourself said that you thought consumers should be responsible when it came to managing their spending and debt, shouldn't your constituents expect the same from their elected officials?