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Senator should oppose health bill

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To the editor:
    This is an open letter to U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown. Senator, I request you vote against the health care bill being developed in secrecy by President Obama, Senator Reid and Representative Pelosi.
    This bill, based upon what little information has been made public so far:
    • Contains massive payoffs for those senators whose votes are for sale.
    • Contains massive unfunded obligations to be imposed on the states.
    • Will require a huge added federal bureaucracy with its attendant costs and their resultant restrictive rules (read: losses of liberty) imposed on the citizens.
    • Will place bureaucrats between the patients and their doctors.
    • Will doubtless add to the already uncontrollable nation’s debt, leading consequently to national insolvency.
    • Will impose higher costs in terms of increased taxes and fees up front prior to when its proposed changes to health care procedures will be going into effect.
    • Will most probably reduce the desirability of people to become medical doctors. The solution to this shortage will most likely be to lower academic standards for entry into and successfully completing medical school courses.
    • Establish a system that most of our citizens appear to be against this “secretive approach” to our health care field.
    President Obama is successfully turning our nation toward socialism. The Democrat senators (you included) appear to have been marching lock-step to enact his desires up until now.
    This Health Care bill appears to be de facto socialized medicine. Socialism has been tried many times, and it has always failed its citizens.
    Albert Einstein defined insanity as “Trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”
    As a minimum, I want you to: consider the opinions of your constituents on this issue and read the bill and fully understand it prior to deciding how you will vote on it. This request would be consistent with an earlier, but apparently no longer valid, description of the U.S. Senate as being “a great deliberative body.”
    Sincerely,
    Ray Erickson
    Hillsboro[[In-content Ad]]

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