Govt Health Care: Say No Today

Today, the Baucus Plan that is not a bill, or even a plan, quite, gets voted on by the Senate Finance Committee. Today's post is a quick one from someone who has plenty of practical experience with government health care as it now exists for veterans.

If you are on a private plan, be warned: Government care will not resemble what you know.

Government care is not going to be convenient care. It will be inconvenient care.

When you call your doctor, a friendly assistant will not answer within a few rings. There won't be any "fitting you in" when you need health care in a hurry. That doctor who keeps waits in his waiting room to a minimum? Forget about it. Care will become more and more centralized, meaning: That surgery you expect to have in a clinic or hospital right in your own community will probably be happening in a hospital in another city, maybe hundreds of miles away. No joke. Need an eye exam or a walker? How about a couple-month wait and a 120 mile car trip when you used to be able to get them a mile or two down the road? Been there, done that.

AJStrata over at The Strata-Sphere said it well:

. . . the liberal myth that you can go to a one size fits all approach means everyone gets lousy service. It is naive to think everyone would get the premier care those who work hard in life can afford. It is naive to think there will be any tailoring for individual needs or challenges. Those are the things you lose when you buy into the myth that government rationed health care is better than what we have today.

And it is naive to think the pols telling us these lines will actually be using the one size fits all care they have created for the masses. They, of course, will still have a choice.

If you don't let Congress hear your opposition today, I promise you: There will come a day when you wish you had taken advantage of your chance to say No.

If you would like a little more information or encouragement to call, read AJStrata's post here.

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