We are making available to our visitors a letter sent to Senator Herb Kohl with similar letters sent to Senators Russ Feingold and Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner and Paul Ryan analyzing the House of Representative’s version of the healthcare plan. If you would like to down load the letter and send it to your congress people, feel free to do so. Click here to download the letter.

 

Also available is a short video of a common experience in the Canadian healthcare system. Again please feel free to forward to your friends.

 

 

There are a number of misrepresentations going on about the government healthcare plan. The largest misrepresentation is that Americans want to change their healthcare. That is the farthest thing from the truth. Americans do not want their healthcare changed—they just want it to cost less. The proposed bill changes the way we receive healthcare, makes it cost more and limits access to care based on age, social status and political affiliation. This isn’t what we want and the liberals are name calling and slandering the average American for having the courage to ask tough questions and demanding accountability. They are claiming those who have challenged them are putting out false information and trying to create fear.

 

People that have attended town meetings have been call angry mobs, insurance company paid instigators, and according to Nancy Pelosi “wearing Nazi swastikas”. What is interesting is that these meetings were peaceful until the Liberal Congress people brought in paid bouncers to keep out those people that wanted to voice their concerns. The bouncers’ main objective is to keep out any one or question that might not be for the new healthcare plan and only allow those in-favor-of the plan in. This planting of paid friendly supporters and pre-approved, staged questions in a meeting to “find out” what the “grass roots” population wants is called Astroturf(ing).

 

What wasn’t anticipated was the strong decent of the American people and the real tough questions that liberals didn’t want to answer about socializing medicine. As a result of this pressure, liberals couldn’t assure themselves friendly crowds. So instead of answering the questions and dealing with the legitimate concerns of the citizens they were to represent, they have refuse to listen and have done their best to slander and discredit the real “grass root” people who on their own time have come out to voice their opinion.

 

Currently there is only one plan that has any public viewing. President Obama does not have a plan in the public arena that is being considered even though he speaks as if he has authority over the one being considered. The Senate has 5 secret plans, none that have left committee and they are doing everything possible to prevent the public from finding out what are in those plans. The only public plan is the House plan. This is a 1000+ page plan that virtually none of the liberal congress people have read yet have claimed it to be the best thing since sliced bread. This letter addresses that plan and has pulled information from the house bill resulting in the 28 concerns found in the letter. I have not tried not to create any misrepresentations but I also understand that things can change and this represents the best knowledge as of 8/8/2009.

 

What President Obama is saying about the healthcare plan and what the House bill says are in many cases at opposite ends of the spectrum creating the misrepresentations that the left is trying to blame on others. The left has created the misrepresentations either out of ignorance or as a smoke screen to cover their true intentions. However, it has nothing to do with providing compassionate healthcare nor lowering the cost of healthcare. Therefore, do not be intimidated nor back down from those that would bully you in an attempt to avoid accountability, disclosure and honest communication. Feel free to use the information to contact your congress people.

 

Thanks,

 

Bill Hoeg

 

Our Vice president and Business Manager, Bill Hoeg has a BA degree in Business and Economics with the equivalent of an accounting degree from Coe College and a MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. He has reviewed and collected some of the information that has been going around the public square. In his various positions over the years, he has also been a user and provider of different healthcare plans including not having a health plan when he was growing up. He has had experience with the single payer systems in Canada and Russia and has been exposed to the socialized care found in England and Norway.