Once in a while I just can't resist the urge to reply to one of these e-mails that grandmas like to circulate around teh internets. There is no point in replying directly to the arguments of a chain letter, but always a surfeit of subliminal content to play with. This time the subject is the US health care reform bill. While I think the critics of the bill might have some good points, they are generating more heat than light - and mostly lulz. The chain letter in question uses the abbreviation HC for health care (because your time is precious!)
Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the Govt will audit books of all employers that self-insure!!
What do these employers have to hide, that they don't want their books audited?
Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill: THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get.
I am so enraged about this interference with my right to have my treatments selected by some bean counters at the HMO.
Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!
There goes the all-you-can-eat health care I have grown accustomed to.
Page 42 of HC Bill: The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC benefits for you. You have no choice!
Wait, so instead of the current system where I "choose" whether to wait in line at the clinic with my day laborer buddies in the alley behind the market in Seattle where I live on weekdays or with the meth heads across the street from Walmart in Bremerton where I live on weekends, the HC Bill will have both a Commissioner and a Committee competing for this privilege?Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non-US citizens, illegal or otherwise.
It's just not right to treat our guest workers to that kind of abuse.
