Florence Shealy

To the editor,

This is my response to Tony Boutin’s very good response to Diane Maheux’ letter regarding a single payer health care for all.

It worries me a great deal if LRGHealthcare, et al, is in agreement with a single payer healthcare for our citizens in the Lakes Region and for millions of people in these great U.S. In fact it troubles me greatly if universal health care is enacted. I am a senior citizen, 76 years of age, and I want to have as long a life as God gives me breath. I appreciate now the good care I currently receive from the doctor I chose. I DO NOT want some bureaucrat in Washington, DC telling me I don’t need a medical procedure with an agenda in the back of their minds that I will die soon so the cost of it would be better used on younger more eligible citizens.

I am very satisfied with my doctor I don’t want some senator, representative or ACORN representative telling me what medical care I can or cannot receive. Or tell me I am not allowed to have certain drugs or procedures needed for my good health. I want to live yes, to see my granddaughter graduate and married. I want my children and grandchild to receive good health care in the future. I don’t want them to be exorbitantly taxed as will be the case. We are already in the trillions of dollars in debt. What is going on in Washington? This does not make sense to me.

Don’t get me wrong. I am very supportive of helping those who need health care who don’t have any insurance because of lack of job or because he or she cannot afford health care. We could actually use the Tarp money or the so-called stimulus money for such people. It is my understanding as I listen to some, as I read excerpts of this plan, that if one does not pay into government health care one will be penalized monetarily and in fact could be put in jail. What kind of country would do such a thing? Certainly not the United States of America.

We will lose our freedoms, as the government will be privy to our financial records and arbitrarily take the needed fees out of our bank accounts. Doctors will not be free to go to an area in the country they desire if there are doctors already chosen by the government for such an area. They would be thrust about as the government sees fit. Will good qualified men and women pursue a medical profession under such a plan? Will our doctors be free to give medical procedures, etc to all, young and old. Our health care in the hands of good doctors will be very much in jeopardy. . Please let’s keep what we have now.

Why don’t the far-left politicians in Washington want this bill to be fully disclosed and read to the people? Why are they trying to rush this through without the citizens of the U.S. knowing what is in the bill? Goodness, not even the politicians know what is fully in this bill; and they will vote on it. This does NOT make sense to me. Now they are going to try to put this through on Christmas Eve; when people will be busy about celebrating Christmas. So much for an open administration that wants to let the people know what is going on. It is all being done behind closed doors in Washington. So much for the open government we were promised. The objective of this liberal, health care bill is not to see that you receive good, quality health care. Make no mistake about it — it is to have complete control over all our lives. And they will if this plan is adopted.

We pay these senators and representatives their lucrative salaries and why are they going to vote for it when 60-percent of the people in American DO NOT WANT IT. I certainly don’t. In fact, it is downright scary. Are they selling their souls to appease Obama? It sure does not make sense to me.

Those in the low income bracket should be very suspicious of it. Where in the world is there going to be enough money to supply you with health care? There are not enough rich people in this country to supply yours and those in America their medical needs. Something like 47-million people will be under this plan, including illegal aliens, as they are touting. You also will be taxed. I like the slogan “If you think medical costs are high now, wait till it is free”. Medicaid and Medicare are bankrupt. Social Security is bankrupt and we are not even going to get our COLA. In fact anything the government handles is bankrupt. Am I supposed to assume that this socialistic health care is also to succeed as they try to make us believe? When we get through, our children and grandchildren will be in debt to the tune of trillions of dollars. This does NOT make sense to me.

Please, government, take your hands off of our healthcare and our freedoms. Citizens please don’t let these politicians return to Washington. Let’s vote them all out of office. I will do everything in my power to see that our representatives and senators who advocate universal health care don’t have a job in 2010.

Florence Shealy

Laconia