Here's a damned good question.
If you saw this Gallup poll that recently stated:
By a two-to-one margin, Americans believe their health costs will go up.
Only 14 percent see a reduction in costs nationally.
More Americans believe this plan would reduce their access to care than expand it.
..which led Gallup to conclude: “These results do not coalesce into a terribly optimistic picture of Americans ’views of the perceived impact of healthcare reform”…
Then would you still try and interject government further into our health care system?
Well, one Key Republican is still involved with rewriting this health care overhaul.
It’s Sen. Chuck Grassley, and he told NPR he hopes to have a bill by this weekend.
While Senators rush to put something – anything – together before they go home for recess, AFF Political Action is rushing to find out exactly what is within this bill.
One of the more disturbing items highlighted in this article is the fact that this Senate panel is expected to back a tax on “high-cost insurance policies to raise revenue and keep costs down.”
Isn’t that just typical for Washington? Those taxpayers who are being responsible, paying for their own health plans, are now to be punished in the form of even more taxes?
Why in the world would politicians target insurance policies that are already purchased? Especially in light of the fact that these high-income earners who are targeted already pay the bulk of the taxes that would go toward this new health plan!
And while extreme leftist groups like MoveOn.org are pushing madly for a universal, government-run health care bill, even conservative Democrats are balking at the prospect. Why? Because it spends too…much…MONEY! In an era of stimulus packages, bailouts and record deficits…they realize we can’t sustain this!
So what do the Democrats, knowing they don’t have the votes, try to do? Drag along Republicans so they can point to “bipartisan” tax increases!
It is nonsense, and higher taxes for more government-run health care is the exact wrong answer. If we can’t pay the bills we have now, why are we creating even more government on top of it?
Sincerely,
Tim Albrecht
AFF Political Action
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