Since I do a lot of writing and reading, I get lots of emails and this is one that I received about the health care debate. It was sent by a Dr. Bob Goldberg.
Friend:
Long waits for treatments, fewer choices, more government interference, higher taxes and higher health care costs — does that sound like the kind of health reform you want? Congress’ so-called “public plan” threatens to raise your taxes, bankrupt the country and force millions of Americans out of their current employer-based coverage – and it does nothing to control rising health care costs.
Supporters of the “public plan” say that more government control of health care would inject new “competition” into our health care system. Yet the public “option” is built on government health care programs that are already going bankrupt here in the USA and outright failing patients in Canada and the UK. And incredibly, congressional reform proposals will force more than 119 million Americans from their good, private health care coverage to this new government-run program. That’s almost half of all Americans who already have health insurance coverage.
It’s time to expose the tremendous costs and consequences of government-run health care. There are better ways to make health care coverage affordable and patient-centered. That’s why CMPI Advance has created a Web site that provides policymakers and the public with facts and resources and, more importantly, encourages people like you to tell Congress to keep their hands off health care.
May I suggest that if people would spend a little time checking the facts and the myths, then all this misinformation will disappear because it will be exposed for what it is….BS! I am guessing that these types of BS artist are hoping that their “facts” will be taken as gospel and not checked.