http://northwestvets.com/open_letter_to_senator_murray.htm
Roger Young
[Address/Phone]
22 December 2009
VIA FACSIMILE
Subject: Open Letter to Sen. Murray on Health Care
Sen. Murray,
I am aware you will be one of sixty Senators voting for the passage of the Senate Health Care bill. You have made your position perfectly clear to all of us here in Washington State that you personally support the bill. I recognize the need for health care reform to lower costs, but that is not what I’m seeing in this legislation.
First, this bill according to all national polls is opposed by the majority of Americans as we understand it today. Second, this bill reportedly contains numerous brokered, sweetheart deals for states such as Nebraska, Florida and Louisiana which in my opinion is nothing less than a bribe, extortion, and the most blatant form of corruption I’ve seen in our Senate in my lifetime and is most likely unconstitutional.
What is the rush to pass a bill by Christmas that will not go into effect until at least 2013 if the upcoming conference version is passed by both houses? I’ll answer for you – pure politics so that President Obama can go before the American people in his upcoming State of the Union address and say he and his party gave us health care reform, period. That claim alone is apparently more important than bringing us rational health care reform.
The American people are not stupid. They are starting to see the corruption and costs behind this bill and I’m certain additional alarming details will be revealed in time. An administration that has promised to be transparent has been anything but.
The people will be heard in 2010.
Merry Christmas,
Roger Young – Vietnam veteran
Northwest Veterans Newsletter – http://northwestvets.com
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Harry Reid slips in a bombshell for Obamacare foes by Rick Moran – 22 Dec 09
Change Nobody Believes In – WSJ – 21 Dec 09
Senate Passes Health Insurance Overhaul – FoxNews – 24 Dec 09
VFW: National Healthcare Bill Betrays Veterans – 21 Mar 10
Senate Refuses to Exempt Veterans from Health Bill’s New Tax on Prosthetics and Other Medical Devices; Also Refuses to Exempt the Disabled and Children – CNSNews – 25 Mar 10
With the Senate passing their version of HC, the bill will now go to the conference committee.
If it then passes both houses in its finalized version, it will probably take years to know how it exactly impacts all of us.
What I fear is that employers will drop health care from their benefits packages and take the fine instead. This will force many workers to seek insurance elsewhere at increased costs. Time will tell.