Little-Acorn
Gold Member
Dear Mr. President,
You seem to be occupied with addressing the failures of your Obamacare website, promising us that it will be up and running with the bugs finally ironed out by the end of the month, etc.
But, Mr. Obama, those aren't the real problems your insurance scheme has.
What is really worrying us, is the high costs you are charging for insurance plans that often don't provide the services we want while "covering" us for things we'll never need; high deductibles that mean your plans won't pay a dime until we've paid out far more than our present plans require... and a complete lack of any other choice we'd like to see when we choose insurance plans.
Mr. President, the only reason we even gave this a hearing, is because you promised us that it would contain no new taxes, and that we'd be able to keep our present doctors and plans if we wanted to. We would have voted it down immediately if not for these provisions.
And now we find that, as soon as we gave you our votes, you went to the Supreme Court and insisted the scheme DID have new taxes, and that you'd only called them "penalties" to fool us into voting the way you wanted. And we found that we couldn't keep our present plans and doctors... and that you knew it all all along, even while you were assuring us otherwise.
And to rub salt into these wounds, you are forcing us to use your new scheme instead of the ones we want, and threatening to penalize us if we don't obey.
Excuse me, sir, but when did you decide that we could no longer be trusted to choose our own insurance? And that a bunch of bureaucrats three thousand miles away, knew better than we did about it? Especially in light of their track record to date.
And where did you get the authority to impose this decree on us?
Mr. President, who died and made you God?
Sure, there are problems in the insurance industry. Many of which started when government got involved in it seventy years ago, and which have only been getting worse with each government "solution".
That government involvement started during the emergency of a major war. But the war is over, Mr. President, long ago. Why is the government still involved? We'd like to get back to regular life.
Yes, we'd like to see some solutions to the problems that existed before that major war started. But having government pile more and more problems on top of them, isn't helping and never has.
Mr. President, please call off the war that government has continued ever since that time long ago when the real war went away. If you would quit spending so much effort on trying to control every last facet of our lives, perhaps you can find a way to help us with some of the actual problems we face.
If government is really the one who can help those problems at all, that is. From their efforts to date, I'm not encouraged. To put it mildly.
You seem to be occupied with addressing the failures of your Obamacare website, promising us that it will be up and running with the bugs finally ironed out by the end of the month, etc.
But, Mr. Obama, those aren't the real problems your insurance scheme has.
What is really worrying us, is the high costs you are charging for insurance plans that often don't provide the services we want while "covering" us for things we'll never need; high deductibles that mean your plans won't pay a dime until we've paid out far more than our present plans require... and a complete lack of any other choice we'd like to see when we choose insurance plans.
Mr. President, the only reason we even gave this a hearing, is because you promised us that it would contain no new taxes, and that we'd be able to keep our present doctors and plans if we wanted to. We would have voted it down immediately if not for these provisions.
And now we find that, as soon as we gave you our votes, you went to the Supreme Court and insisted the scheme DID have new taxes, and that you'd only called them "penalties" to fool us into voting the way you wanted. And we found that we couldn't keep our present plans and doctors... and that you knew it all all along, even while you were assuring us otherwise.
And to rub salt into these wounds, you are forcing us to use your new scheme instead of the ones we want, and threatening to penalize us if we don't obey.
Excuse me, sir, but when did you decide that we could no longer be trusted to choose our own insurance? And that a bunch of bureaucrats three thousand miles away, knew better than we did about it? Especially in light of their track record to date.
And where did you get the authority to impose this decree on us?
Mr. President, who died and made you God?
Sure, there are problems in the insurance industry. Many of which started when government got involved in it seventy years ago, and which have only been getting worse with each government "solution".
That government involvement started during the emergency of a major war. But the war is over, Mr. President, long ago. Why is the government still involved? We'd like to get back to regular life.
Yes, we'd like to see some solutions to the problems that existed before that major war started. But having government pile more and more problems on top of them, isn't helping and never has.
Mr. President, please call off the war that government has continued ever since that time long ago when the real war went away. If you would quit spending so much effort on trying to control every last facet of our lives, perhaps you can find a way to help us with some of the actual problems we face.
If government is really the one who can help those problems at all, that is. From their efforts to date, I'm not encouraged. To put it mildly.
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