Letter to "Blue Dog" Democrats

I am begging you as an American, a taxpayer and a voter to please vote against H.R.3200 - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Government health “care” is monstrously inefficient, as any veteran using the Veteran’s Administration will be happy to explain, and any doctor (if he or she had time to write) would tell you about Medicare reimbursement.

My husband worked for the State of Texas for 3 years and we were part of an HMO where bureaucrats made decisions on what medical care was deemed “necessary.” It was a nightmare! Without taking up your time to explain the details, we had to pay to see a doctor who was not “authorized” in order to receive necessary medical care. If a similar system is implemented on a national basis, not even that option will be available.

I was diagnosed with lymphoma at age 46 and have been in remission for 4 years, thanks to the availability of timely, up-to-date medical care and pharmaceutical research, as well as our private employer’s health insurance plan. If Congress allows the federal government to take over our wonderful, even if flawed, health care system, the time WILL come, as it has in every nation with nationalized care, that faceless bureaucrats will effectively determine who lives and who dies based upon the limited funds and the inevitable need for rationing care based on who is more worthy to use those limited funds.

Please stop this senseless rush to push through a massive health care bill that the vast majority of the American people do NOT want! There are many solutions available to better the health care system without DESTROYING what already is good in the system and without piling more and more debt onto We the People who pay the taxes.