Health Care Reform? Response from Senator Murray

Here is my response to Senator Patty Murray regarding the health care reform bill.

Dear Senator Murray,

Thank you for your response. I appreciate you taking the time out of your very busy schedule.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act sounds good. Every patient wants protection and of course everyone wants affordable health care. I applaud you for trying to do that. But this is not the way.

Who will protect me when you come to arrest me for not buying health insurance? Who will protect me when I am forced to pay for everyone else's insurance - including illegal aliens? Who will protect me when I refuse to pay for a woman to kill her unborn baby? Will you protect me when I get cancer, and the insurance will not pay for any procedure other than counseling? I should never be forced by the federal government to buy insurance! I should not be paying a penny to support illegal aliens! My religion prevents me from paying for a procedure to kill another human being! My insurance now will pay for life-saving procedures even though they may be expensive.

And the best way to make health care affordable is tort reform. Make these crazy multi-million dollar settlements illegal. If the federal government ever gets into universal health care there will be so much waste and fraud and pocket-lining that there is no way it could be 'affordable'.

This Act will not allow me to keep my insurance. My employer will find that the government plan costs him much less than what he is providing now, so he will switch. A business man has to watch the bottom line. Will you tell him he has to keep me on my present plan and pay for it rather than switching me and saving money? Of course not. So you are wrong, I will not be able to keep my present insurance. Of course I could not get the insurance provided free by my employer and instead get a single policy and pay for it myself but we all know that that is not realistic.

To say that this Act will reduce the deficit by $127 billion dollars over the next ten years is folly. When was the last time a government program came in on budget? It will not happen because of the reasons listed above (waste, fraud, pocket-lining) and other ways not yet even created.

There are many other problems with this Act, but I am sure you get the point. I cannot support anyone that votes for this socialist monster.

I do very much appreciate the time you've taken to correspond with me on this vital matter. Thank you.

Sincerely,