MY COUNTRY DIED ON ME

Some facts that my help you decide on a government run health care plan. 45% of the doctors now practicing have stated that they will retire if a national health care plan is put in place. 50% of our doctors do not accept medicad. Dropping half a trillion dollars cut out of medicare will force rationed health care for our seniors.
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Texas, California and Mississippi have past tort reform which has had the effect of driving down health insurance premiums by 40%+, but due to the number of politicians in Washington being past lawyers and those that were not but having taken large sums of money from lawyers, there is no way for a national tort reform being enacted. Taking off interstate trade restrictions on health insurance companies to sell insurance across state lines would open the door to competition which always as the effect of driving down prices.
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There are many things that can be done to make health insurance affordable for everyone, but congress is bent on not listening to the major of people who do not want congress to pass a plan that will drive up health cost. Congress and the White House Palace thinks we cannot think for ourselves. It's a sign that our government has lost complete touch with those that elected them. One WWII vet I know said "I was willing to give up my life fighting for my country, but I never thought I would see the day my country died on me."