Take-it-or-leave-it health care choice? Let's leave it

Published: February 25, 2010

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To the editor: It's sad now to think of the high hopes some Americans had for health care reform a year ago, as those hopes are far removed from the health care bill that's now on life support in Congress. In terms of the national interest, the kind thing to do would be for Congress to pull the plug on this bill and start over.

The bill as it now exists is a tax-raiser and job-killer that would not improve health care or make it more affordable for most Americans. Is it any wonder that average Americans are speaking out against this monstrosity?

The Democrat leaders are too insulated from the people who elected them to stop and listen. In addition, they are arrogant and determined to ram this bill through in spite of the fact that most Americans oppose it.

If Congress wants a health care reform initiative that works, it shouldn't be one that would hammer small businesses with impossible coverage mandates for their employees, as the present bill does. Real health care reform would put the power of free enterprise to work for consumers and small businesses by changing laws that make it hard for insurance carriers to compete across state lines.

As it is, too many Pennsylvanians are left with a "take-it-or-leave-it" choice for health insurance. That's not a real choice, because most of us wouldn't even consider leaving our families unprotected. We'd rather have expensive insurance than no insurance at all.

The people of the Susquehanna Valley should remember that Chris Carney voted for this bill. The close vote was 220 to 215, so Nancy Pelosi couldn't give Carney a "pass" on this one.

When it comes to the current health care reform bill, though, the public does have a take-it-or-leave-it choice, and the national verdict is obviously to leave it. Congress should take a lesson from the folks at home and do away with this health care reform bill. This is not what the people have been waiting for all this time.

Donald J. Ely

Sunbury

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