Government has no place in the doctor's office

By Gordon Sinclair

Comments about single-payer health care system from the uneducated or party affiliates on both sides can be great political diatribes.

Some of you appear to be willing to entrust your health care to the government. Would those people allow control of all aspects of their lives to our government? Are they willing to give up freedom of choice, allowing our government to control what type of car we drive, what we can or can not eat, what we can wear and where we can live? All in the interest of our health?

The false notion that “not everyone is covered medically” can be dismissed. Our government has given us the bankrupt Medi-Cal/Medicare system, remember? Oh, by the way, this is for everyone within our borders.

Now, the Democratic majority wants to expand governmental health care at a cost more than one trillion dollars, by their own estimates, only covering one-third of the so-called uninsured. Oh, by the way, this also includes all the people in our borders — the government likes to include non-U.S. citizens when it provides figures of the “uninsured.” Also, it includes the younger population that have chosen not to become insured until they need it. Independent estimates are that the program will cost more than three trillion dollars.

When some of the other options are added, we cannot afford that now! Change we can believe in? Who mare you going to believe?

 Our government is more interested in control of our hard-earned dollars than our health care. To help pay for this socialized medicine run by bureaucracy, the government intends to tax us for the health care provided by our employers. What do you think the employers are going to do? Under this plan, employers will stop your health care benefits before you can say “Change you can believe in.”

Your private insurance will not be able to compete with the government. The government has unlimited dollars — your dollars in the form of taxes. You will be forced to accept government-controlled health care.

Our government will add taxes on energy, food, all products and carbon dioxide emissions?

You have heard of the cap-and-trade bill, HR 2454?

The notion that CO2, which makes up only 0.035 percent of our atmosphere, could add to any change in our temperature is silly. Would regulation of carbon emissions include monitoring our breathing? The estimated result of HR 2454, if passed by the Senate, is that it would cost $3,000 per family.

Look into the costs, wait times and delayed treatments for the sick, including cancer patients in England and Canada. See a real eye-opener on the costs of government health care.

Why do people from all over the world come to the United States, including from England and Canada, for their major health care?

Do you trust your government to control your health care and the costs?

Under the past Republican president, our government rushed through a $700 billion bailout bill through a Democratic majority House, which did not take time nor have the opportunity to read the measure. Who is watching out for you?

Our government has lost or cannot account for $300 billion-plus of the $700 billion? I do not have the space to address our bankrupt Social Security system, the government gift that will soon stop giving. The present Democratic majority complains of the $700 billion-plus deficit inherited from the previous administration, but now has doubled the debt and is not happy with the results, so they are proposing another trillion dollars. Do you enjoy trying to call someone in our government — like the post office, DMV or IRS — and have to listen to multiple recordings before you hang up knowing nothing more than you did before calling? No accountability with the people in the government.

Do you want a bureaucrat directly involved with your medical history and physical, or do you want your private doctor to be involved?

(Sinclair lives in Napa.)

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