Health Care Reform, YES! Obamacare NO!

We need health care reform in several areas that will improve services and perhaps reduce. Some examples are:
1. electronic medical records, 2. much higher penalties for private insurers who deny legitimate claims, 3. tort reform to eliminate frivolous malpractice lawsuits while maintaining legitimate claims with reasonable penalties, 4. allowing small businesses to go out of state for insurance in order to get more competitive bids, 5. vouchers for insurance for those laid off from work while they seek new jobs, 6. vouchers for those that cannot afford insurance but not those who are illegal aliens, those that make over some limit like $75,000 but choose not to buy insurance and not for those who qualify for Medicare, Medicare of SCHIP but have not bothered to sign up.

We don't need Obama's "single payer " plan represented by the "government option" insurance which cannot help but drive private health insurance out of business. Obama has stated he fundamentally believes in a "single payer system" and believes that services, medical tests, drugs and surgeries need to be reduced through government guidelines, so a government bureaucrat will decide what care you can get based upon the government budget for health care. This is the single payer system we see in Canada and the U.K. where many expensive drugs for critical cases are just not available, where there are restrictions on surgeries for back pain, joint replacement and other conditions, where there are months of waiting time for critical tests such as MRIs and CAT scans, where there are months of waiting for critical treatments like radiation therapy and where there are shortages of doctors and nurses because of government caps on fees.

Obama lies when he says "if you like your current health insurance you will be able to keep it". The Obamacare bill working its way through Congress is designed with new restrictions on private insurance and undercutting the cost of private insurance to drive 100 million people with private health insurance to the government subsidized "government option" health plan. Obamacare is not designed to give better health care or even to maintain your current level of health care. It's primary goal is clearly to make everyone dependent on the government for health care.