Paying for Socialized Health Care

I am very concerned about socialized health care on two different fronts.

First of all, I am concerned about paying for a socialized health care system and the ramifications of trying to pay for it. I am not at all sure that the government has the money to pay for a socialized medical system. Today, Associated Press writer Tom Raum wrote an article that stated many sources are concerned about paying for health care and they are not seeing that the numbers add up to pay for the system. The Congressional Budget Office is just one of those who are concerned that paying for this system would put us another trillion dollars in debt over the next ten years.

This concern of mine over paying for a health care plan for all Americans leads to my second concern. If this plan cannot be funded properly, will health care suffer? What will be cut out so that the administration can pay for socialized health care and say that they won?

An organization called Citizens Against Government Waste cautions that "the real goal of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid legislation is to force all Americans into a one-size-fits-all, government-run and rationed healthcare system, look no further than page 16 of the House bill. Under "Limitation On New Enrollment," the bill states: "Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.

In other words, once the Obama/Pelosi/Reid healthcare regime takes effect, you can keep your existing plan, but if your employer stops offering healthcare coverage or if you are privately insured and your insurer cancels your coverage, you are no longer free to buy new coverage from a private insurance company on the open market."

Is anyone aware of this small bit included in the bill? Are most Americans willing to let this happen?  I am not!  I have e-mailed my congressmen to let them know of my disapproval of the healthcare bill.  I keep hearing words like "all people are entitled to healthcare coverage."  Our founding fathers did not feel like we were "entitled" to anything like that. That is why they didn't provide for that in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Keep that in mind.