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Inglis: No on Obamacare

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Inglis voted NO on all versions of the Democrats’ Health Care bills. When it comes to health care reform, we want a robust private insurance market because we want to preserve choice of insurer in our system and choice of provider. We must insist on that freedom.

Reasons Rep. Bob Inglis opposes H.R. 3200/3962

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Matthew Pugsley (3/21/10)

Please vote for health care reform. We are all *already* on the hook for health care costs. Distinguish between additional and alternative costs.

Barbara Prinzing (3/21/10)

Please follow the voice of the people and vote NO on the health care bill that is pending.

Michelle Stevenson (3/19/10)

Please support the President and vote for Health Care Reform. We need to help more Americans. My health care goes up every year. Please vote YES!Do the right thing for all of America not just the GOP.

Mark Johnson (3/19/10)

Mr. Inglis, Please vote YES for the health care bill. I'm for a single payer system, but bill H.R. 3200/3962 is better than nothing. Vote YES! Its more important to save the lives of many than to protect the profit of a few.

Ricky & Beverley King (12/19/09)

Please keep retired military insurance yearly cost and co-paysfor health and medicine set to increase only at the cost of living rate. Why should it go up any higher than our raises? Why should ourmilitary pay be eaten up? Yes, we oppose the President's Health Reform Act.

Marybeth & Jim Trunk (11/7/09)

Please vote yes on the Pitts-Stupak Ammendment to the healthcare bill.

Lynne Hamrick (11/7/09)

I have been made aware that there may be a last-minute vote on healthcare this weekend with last ditch wording regarding the abortion issue. I am strongly OPPOSED to this type of voting on an issue so vital to the American public. Months ago I heard President Obama say he wanted a vote by the end of the year. What's the rush??? Why not take our time and hopefully get it right, if that's possible, coming out of Washington!!!!!

Sarah Blackman (11/4/09)

I am writing to request that you support Health Care Reform for Americans and desist from the scare tactics and shameless partisan bullying the GOP has adopted as its rhetoric on this crucial issue. Aside from the human cost our woeful healthcare situation exacts every day, I am at a loss to see how the economic situation in this country can ever improve in a sustainable fashion with the gaping hole of our broken healthcare system left unpatched in the bottom of our collective bucket. If we are ever to be the politically free, humanitarianly engaged, economically viable America the GOP seems so desperate to protect, we MUST take proactive steps now to safeguard the unified wellbeing of this country; not just the wellbeing of the rich and the white.

Lynda Greenlee (11/3/09)

As a self-employed person who sells individual health insurance, there are several insurance companies that will cover people who are taking blood pressure pills. You may have to pay a higher premium for certain pre-existing conditions, or that condition could be excluded. Also, it is my understanding that an insurance company can only drop you for non-payment of premium not because you became sick. It is true that it is harder to find insurance for diabetics but there are insurance available if it is well-controlled.

I've have major catastrophic health coverage with Health Savings accounts for many years. My Health Savings Account allows me "freedom" to negotiate with my doctors on price and to purchase healthcare that may not be covered by my policy. All my young adult children also carry their own major catastrophic policies with Health Savings accounts. This makes the insurance affordable for them while covering them if something major happens.

Louis Bessix (10/27/09)

Employer based health insurance is owned and controlled only by the employer. Employees don't shop insurance companies for what they want, they only rent the best plan from their employer that he can afford for them. When employees leaves or loses that job and choose to take ownership of that exact same coverage, it costs them three times the premium of what they were renting it for. This happened to over a thousand of us brick masons and helpers at just this one company. Now, after 14 years of continuous coverage for my family I can't get insurance because I take blood pressure pills now. Please support the public plan because Americans need to own their insurance and stop thinking they do.

James Mitchell (10/9/09)

Mr. Inglis, I am writing to request that you support health care reform for all Americans. With 145 deaths every day of people who are un-insured and under insured, it cannot wait. The time has come to stand up for people who no matter how hard they try, cannot stand up for themselves. As you can see, people who are writing here have been misinformed and are led by fear. I trust that you will do your part to understand the truths and not buy into the lies. Thank you for your time. Again, I request that you vote in support of 145 lives saved every day.

Erin Smith (10/1/09)

I am a 25 year-old, healthy, non-smoking female and my insurance has just been raised to $300 a month, which doesn't cover maternity, dental or preventative care. I have no job and although I am well-educated and have plenty of work experience, I am "over-qualified" for the jobs available. Also, South Carolina allows insurance companies to pro-rate based on sex, thus charging women 35-40% more for the SAME policy as a male. Something needs to be done and it needs to be done NOW! Blocking all efforts for reform is not the way to go. The insurance companies are making BILLIONS in profits per year while I have to choose food, housing or healthcare. Please tell me how I am supposed to support myself while congress plays politics.

Wanda Forbes (9/16/09)

Bob, I think you are on the RIGHT path. Personally, for me, the Tri-Care plan has been very satisfactory and hope that stays.

Robynn Rentz-Neely (9/10/09)

Congressman Inglis, please keep opposing the current health care plan. I'll admit the system is definitely broken but this plan will not fix it; instead it will obliterate our current care, increase costs, and burden our great-great-grandchildren with a huge debt. Joblessness would increase and for what? People with pre-existing conditions would still be uninsured. Don't believe me? Read the bill. Illegals would get coverage. I've seen the loophole. They'll be granted amnesty and then burden the system. Jim DeMint has an interesting idea with the Health Care Freedom Plan. We gotta do something, everyone agrees, so let's do it and hold the politicians accountable who are openly lying about the current plan on the table. Vote no to this Health Care Reform.

Ben Smith (9/10/09)

The following quote rings true in every aspect of this debate specifically pertaining to how we approach paying for the services requested: "Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." I strongly urge you to seek a solution that allows the free market to solve the problems at hand. Government regulation and lack of self sufficiency has produced the current environment. I will be voting for the candidate that promotes less government interference in our Constitutional Republic.

Daniel Morris (9/9/09)

Yes! We need Health care! out there is lots of people that can't affored Health care! & I hope it get Universal too!

Candace Muenzner (9/9/09)

If there must be a public option, here is an idea. why not limit the public option to small business with less than say 100 employees, and individuals with no health insurance. This might give some of us the confidence that we are not out to put private out of business, and some of our benefits with health insurance is not going to go away.

Jennifer Foster (9/7/09)

As a taxpayer in your district, I ask that you support a single payer system. Our health care costs continue to rise as our coverage decreases. The myths of rationing, death panels and the like are simply that... MYTHS! I will be watching the President's speech this week and will be looking for you to be there in a show of support... please don't let our district down by giving in to the insurance companies and fueling the lie. We need relief now.

Jerry Rainey (9/7/09)

1) No health care benefits for illegal aliens. 2) No bailouts. 3) Major tort reform to reduce health care costs. 4) Major anti-fraud effort to reduce medi-care, medi-caid costs. 5)FED revisons to prevent artificial economic conditions leading to institutional failures. 6) Health care insurance competition across state lines. 7) Creating goverment policies to encourage new job creation outside the public sector.

Michelle Stadler (8/30/09)

Please vote NO on HR 3200. It's a thinly veiled road to a single payer system, and based on personal experience with the British Healthcare system, this would be a terrible thing for our country. The first step to fixing our health insurance problems is to enact tort reform. Getting the lawyers out of our medical system will make health care affordable for everyone.

David Workman (8/22/09)

Social Security is in trouble, Medicaid and Medicare are broke. The U.S. Post Office is in shambles and the "Cash for Clunkers" program is yet another example of “Not Getting It Right”. Now Obama is using my tax dollars to lobby for more debt and health care reform. How do I get those dollars back on my 2009 tax return? The government is incapable caring of the Veterans and active duty, how in the world are you going to care for 340 million people. I can not afford more taxes taken from my pay.

Frank Smith (8/22/09)

I believe you should support this health care reform. Health care is not a commodity and should not be treated as such. Explain how the consumer has any choice with health care. The insurance companies are not my concern, the patient should be the focus. It has been proven that free market health care leads to big profits for insurance but poor service for individuals. We did not send you to DC to represent the insurance companies. Stop fighting the president, that is not your function.

Tim Scott (8/21/09)

I don’t know which plan is right. My question is: If the government can regulate the prices of the utility companies, why can't the government regulate the cost of heath care? We all agree the cost is out of control. Even if I have a job with stable company, the companies that provide insurance cannot control the cost the hospital and doctors. Our insurance premiums and deductibles continue to rise. Something has to change or we will all part of a Goverment paid system.

Sandra L Smith (8/20/09)

Mr. Inglis, I strongly urge you to vote NO to HR3200. While we ALL agree reform is needed in the health CARE industry, not just health insurance. I’ve worked for the country's largest health insurer for 15 years and have seen government mandates drive up the cost of administering insurance benefits - each state wanting their own way, causing a nightmare of paperwork. Instead, let’s look across the board. As you've pointed out there are many issues to be addressed. Tort reform; EDUCATING people about their health, choices and cost; simplify administration of health insurance; risk pools as John Adair stated above; ensuring quality and qualified providers. The fact is everyone already has ACCESS to healthcare, even if insurance doesn’t cover something, the person can still get care-it's the cost that’s prohibitive, not whether or not there is insurance. Let's concentrate on what’s causing healthCARE to cost so much.

Frances Fowler (8/20/09)

VOTE YES TO HEALTH CARE REFORM. If anyone has ever tryed to get a private policy and have a pre exisiting condition it's alsmost impossible to get insurance. I think if the health care reform is not approved, something needs to be done so the Big insurance Companies can't turn people down because they have a pre existing condition. People with a pre exisiting condition really need INSURANCE. We need the government to step up to the plate for us. Insurance should not be allowed to turn people down for coverage. They should not be allowed to go up on the premiums that poor people can't afford to get insurance.

Virginia Jenkins (8/20/09)

Mr. Inglis, I am writing in support of the public option in health care reform because it is des-perately needed by so many Americans. I knew one woman who had breast cancer, afterward scrimped for 20 years to pay her exorbitant health insurance cost and then when she got cancer somewhere else after never missing a payment for 20 years, she was dropped immediately. Other breast cancer survivors cannot get health insurance. Let's do the right thing and support health care for all Americans. It is un American not to support our working people and citizens.

Peter Delorme (8/18/09)

I would like to share my wife's story with you. She was an Occupational Therapist at Anderson Area Medical Center for 25+years. She developed their outstanding pediatric program for ALL the special children in her care. She never left one child behind and found the money and resources to care for all. May of 2008 she was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. The health insurance program she, we, paid into for 25+ years dropped her when the hospital let her go. Because I am over weight, have diabetes, and worse of all, self employed I can't get insurance. This is the greatest health system in the world? I THINK NOT!

Debbie Dillard (8/18/09)

Mr. Inglis, I strongly urge you to vote "NO" for the healthcare bill that President Obama is trying to pass! I am a small business owner who now provides insurance for my employees but I don't want to provide for everyone. I like the earlier comments made by John Adair and Mike Kline. Maybe govenment should take note from them.

Jim Phillips (8/18/09)

I support Comprehensive Health Care Reform for all of our citizens. Our current system is a mess. I have private insurance and the cost has doubled for my employer and me in the past ten years. We cannot even get a wage increase because of rising Health Care Premiums. I am tired of paying for Individuals going to the ER for minor care with no Health Insurance. We need a Public Option, with the emphasis on "Option". Without Real Reform Medicare will be busted in ten years.

Elizabeth Halasz (8/18/09)

Thank you for representing the people by opposing the proposed Health Care Bill. We do not want to pay for health care for illegal aliens that are paying nothing into the tax system, nor do we want the government dictating what doctor we see or the care we receive. Without proper compensation, doctors and hospitals will have no reason to provide the finest care. Doctors should be compensated for their dedication & talent, as well as years & money spent achieving that level of education. That is a huge commitment and expense and they deserved to be paid for it (as do our teachers!!!).

Tom Anderson (8/17/09)

Ask a veteran what kind of care he gets at the VA hospital. "MY VOTE IS NO"

James Simpson (8/17/09)

Representative Inglis, For all of us who have experienced VA healthcare firsthand we are warning all other citizens about the perils of government ran healthcare. First of all the VA healthcare system is a prime example of a large existing government ran system. With this system comes long waits for appointments, different doctors with each visit, long waits for prescription drugs, rationed care and issues such as improperly steralized colonoscopy and endoscopy equipment that infected many veterans with HIV and hepatitis. I know most will say these are just isolated instances and are of little concern but I ask the skeptics are they willing to trust big government with their families lives on serious issues such as these?

Teresa Sapp (8/17/09)

Please do not vote for any healthcare plan that gives the federal government or any insurance company the authority over healthcare decisions that should be made only between a patient and their doctor.

jerold murry (8/17/09)

I DO WANT YOU TO BACK THE PRESIDENT"S HEALTH CARE PLAN!!! I don't believe any of the current talking points put forth by the right and talk radio. Medicare and Medicaid as well as the VA Health Care all are "Government" run systems and seem to work well. If you don't want to back the president, (after being in power for over 12 years), what is your plan to reform health care?

Naomi Mason (8/15/09)

Please support the new health care bill. I work in the health care field and see the down falls of our system. This new bill will solve alot of the ongoing problems, without hurting anyone that is happy with what they have. Please grow up and see the truth.

Margaret Howland (8/14/09)

Our present health care system is bankrupting us. Our healthcare outcomes rank far below many of the countries that provide public health care for their citizens. Do you use the national health care system provided for you by the federal government? That program, and Medicare, and the Veterans Administration, are "public health care" systems. They are effective and efficient. Drug companies and insurance companies stand to lose vast amounts of money (look at their recent profit statements) on the proposed revisions to the health care systems. They have produced horrifying misinformation designed to frighten people and must not be permitted to get away with it. Please do not play politics with this issue. It deserves, and needs, sensible discussion, not scare tactics and misinformation.

Marc White (8/14/09)

Like Rep. Inglis, I also oppose HR 3200. Unlike Rep. Inglis, I am opposed to all forms of expansion on health care spending by the federal government. Inglis' principle above of "everyone is covered" will end up bankrupting our great country. It is interesting that politicians are attempting to convince us that we have such poor health care, yet time and time, citizens of countries other than the USA come here for the best health care in the world. If we have such poor medical care, why would they come here? We have the best health care in the world, that is why.

Sue Anderson (8/13/09)

Sarah Palin’s reference to the "Death Panel" and her down syndrome child are NOT extreme. Currently, without the national government intervening, many women are strongly encouraged to abort their babies who are "suspected" of being abnormal. The AFP blood test is routine during prenatal doctor care. This test has an extremely high rate of false positives- I believe 86%. This combined with other factors including the woman's age are used to terrify mothers into believing they are having an abnormal baby. These women are nonchalantly contacted and instructed to see a genetic counselor. Without further testing such as an amniocentesis, these women are encouraged to abort the baby. I know I am one of many who suffered these insensitive tactics Will the National Health Plan cover amniocentesis? Will the National Health Plan insist on aborting "abnormal" babies? If so, then yes, they are a "DEATH PANEL"?

Jo Ann Hollins (8/13/09)

Please do not pass the health care bill, I do not want my goverment deciding what care I will receive.

Margaret Rounsaville (8/13/09)

I thank you for being against the Presidents health care plan. Please vote NO on this proposal.

leon rhodes (8/13/09)

I think that a public option is a great thing. It will keep the Health care companies honest, plus bring the rates down. The rates have been going up and they will keep going up. We need to reform the health care system. Competition never hurt anybody. If you are the only person selling a product to the American people, you can do whatever you want. Bring another person in the room with the same product,same quality with a lower cost. Guess what happens? THE COMPETITION BEGINS.

Mark Harrison (8/13/09)

Mr. Inglis, I fully support your opposition to this bill as it is currently written. Nobody will argue that the system needs to be changed, but not in the direction that President Obama has been driving it. The focus on insurance for everyone and essentially ignoring the fundamental cost side of this industry will take us nowhere.

If the government wants to take over an important portion of the industry, why not take over liability and insurance risk from providers to allow them to remove this additional cost from their billing. Invoiced prices could come down drastically to be in line with what people and insurers can reasonably bear. Ten's of thousands of dollars per day for a hospital stay is absurd by any sense of the imagination.

William Inman (8/12/09)

I request you vote against the Health Care Bill. I cannot support it as written.

Catherine Calogrides (8/12/09)

No one seems to understand that we don't want to talk about ANY health care matters with the government at any level! This is none of our government's business or responsibility. We all have options already in place that the FREE market provides. Everyone that wants coverage can have it, except, many people just don't want to pay for it. Well, then they have made their own decision not to have themselves or their families covered. Although foolish, they are free to make that decision for themselves. There is no crisis of health care or health care coverage, except for the programs that the government already have charge of. So, forget about any further intrustions into our private lives!

Frank Stanbach (8/12/09)

I want to voice my opposition to any form of government run health system. There are ways to fix problems within health care in the US without the government's complete take over. Please vote against it.

Tammy McNaughton (8/12/09)

I am glad to see that you oppose the Health Care Reform. Please speak up for the people that are supporting you. Make it know to Mr. Obama that we do not want his plan.

Todd Fishner (8/11/09)

I request that you vote against this socialized healthcare. My healthcare plan is not perfect, but that is the plan I choose and don't want the government getting involved with my personal choice anymore than it already is.

David Laurine (8/11/09)

I strongly agreee with your several reasons to oppose HR3200 in its current format and urge you to be as vocal as possible in offering these alternatives. I am convinced that these ideas, if implemented, would ultimately be to the benefit of those who have commented about insurance company 'greed', and/or the need for a 'public option'.

Donna Lambert (8/11/09)

Just Vote NO to the Obama healthcare plan.I do not want the Government in the healthcare business.

Gail Williams (8/11/09)

Thank you for opposing the health care proposal.Please keep fighting for us.

Linda Swart (8/11/09)

Thank you for your opposition to the current healthcare bill. As a young physician I am very concerned about my ability to take care of my patients should it pass. Please vote against this.

Craig Page (8/11/09)

Please vote against government intrusion into health care. We need fewer layers between the patient and the doctor. The insurance company already comes between them. Why not let people pay for care and let competition sort it out? Make insurance for catastrophic issues only. Not for a sore throat. It takes more time to fill out paperwork on a routine visit than the visit itself. Adding government to that mix will not improve things.

Matthew Wilson (8/10/09)

I am against government run health care. I will not vote for anyone who supports it. I am against government excessive spending. I will not vote for anyone who supports it. I am for the constitution. The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution does not allow for federal health care.

William Adams (8/10/09)

Thank you for your position on the proposed healthcare legislation. I am opposed to government intervention in the healthcare system. The federal government has mismanaged Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security so they are going broke. Fraud and waste is rampant in Medicare and Medicaid. Why should we expect the government to do any better with a new entitlement program? Also, we simply cannot afford to add even more debt to the crushing debt we've already taken on. We're passing on a terrible burden to our children and are endangering the dollar and our future national security. Lastly, there is no way the government can expand coverage AND reduce costs; it's a mathematical impossibility. Please vote "NO"!

Marc Oburg (8/10/09)

A public option WILL LEAD to single payer, government run, socialized medicine. Its in the bill, and Obama, Rep Schakowsky, and Rep Frank all have said as much. Single payer will lead to waiting lists, sub-par care and rationing. NO to this bill! VOTE NO!!

Stuart J. Prettel (8/10/09)

This healthcare is just another takeover by Obama - Banking, Auto industry, Census, Deficit exploding by four times in the last few months, cash givaways, etc. We now have union thugs trying to shut us up at Town Meetings and Inglis trashing a Patriot without really listening to him. I believe this Country is in very serious trouble with Obama in the White House, Pelosi, in the Congress, and Reid in the Senate - our Republicans have gotten very scary also.

Nathan J. Wood (8/10/09)

Mr.Inglis please do not vote for this health care bill in any form!Medicare,medicaid broke,no money.Post office will lose seven billion this year!Thats what happens when goverment trys to run things!Please not now not ever for my future and my kids future!Keep up the fight!! Thanks.

Rebecca Limpalair (8/9/09)

Mr. Inglis, The issue of health care cannot be reduced to finance. It is a moral and ethical issue. As a Christian living in the Bible Belt, I believe that we have a moral duty to make sure that every American has health care. In South Carolina, 1 out of 4 people are uninsured and many more are under insured. It is your duty to educate the people who are so frightened about change that they find it easier to believe lies than the truth.

Mr. Chapman, These are not "worthless illegal aliens." They are fellow Americans.

Ceren R. Farr (8/8/09)

I am a staunch supporter of President Obama's Health Care Reform plan. Private insurance companies are fueled by greed, not by a desire to serve anyone.

J. William Hudson (8/8/09)

I THINK from what I'm reading here you have your head straight on this issue. I certainly hope so. But I will add my voice to urge you to vote no on Obama's health care bill. As a person with health issues (kidney failure) I have a stake in this too.

Brian Goeckeler (8/8/09)

Please oppose this bill. It is hard enough now to find doctors that accept medicare for my parents. It will only be worse with more gov't involvement in an area that according to article 10 of the constitution should belong to the states and not the federal government.

John E. Waters (8/8/09)

Health Care Reform has been ignored for almost 20yrs, costing this great Nation countless jobs, and making the United States the MOST expensive among other industrialized countries in health care costs. But worst of all our current system is putting Americans in their graves before their time and putting families out of their homes, all because they don't have the money or the right insurance plan.

The proposed Democratic Plan would go far in alleviating many of the challenges faced by American industry, families and individuals. It's not perfect and needs some improvements; however I urge you to do the right thing and make access to quality health care a RIGHT for every American. Mr. Inglis, we must change our priorities and work together to move our Nation forward if we wish to remain the world's last remaining super power in the 21st Century, or we can allow greed, fear, suspicion and ignorance, coupled the corporate interests that prey and profit on those negative attributes to continue to drag the United States backward.

Scott M. Crook (8/8/09)

As a taxpaying member of your district I urge you to support a single payer system. Why would I want this you ask? In the current system we pay for the healthcare of the uninsured and underinsured via higher prices passed on to the paying consumer. Millions of people in the US are using the emergency room as their only source of care and by law (and basic human decency) the hospital cannot turn them away. The hospital still has bills to pay and thus must pass the cost of caring for these people onto the paying customers (ie you and me).

For those who say that government paid insurance means that care will be rationed, I say to you that private insurance also means care will be rationed. The private insurers have every incentive to find any way they can to avoid paying should you ever have a major illness. Every dollar they spend on your care is one less dollar of profit.

Will Kraft (8/7/09)

This is not the direction we need to improve our helth care. It is more about government control. Please be more vocal in opposing this bill!!!

Stuart A. Morris (8/7/09)

Every year my health care costs go up. My premiums are higher and my insurance company limits what costs they choose to reimburse. A government option that is driven by public need NOT by a desire to turn profit is the best way out. Bureaucrats already stand between me and my doctors. They work for the insurance companies and they nickel and dime you when you need their help the most. This system needs to be controlled, transparent and public, which a government will always do better than private profit-driven insurance companies.

lidia adams (8/7/09)

Mr.Inglis, I implore you to do all you can to prevent government take-over of our health care system. We need re-form, but not this type of re-form.

lidia adams (8/7/09)

Mr.Inglis, I implore you to do all you can to prevent government take-over of our health care system. We need re-form, but not this type of re-form.

Tina Bailey (8/7/09)

Kill the health care bill. Obama does not know what he is asking of the American people...We do not want it.

David J. Horn (8/7/09)

The problem with health care is the government. The GOP bill will be transformed into a massive government run system if passed. The federal government has no right to meddle in health care. This is between the citizens and the private sector. The problem with the GOP is the same problem the Dems has and that is wanting to regulate and control the markets.

gary thatcher (8/5/09)

i'm writing you in protest of your views on health care. as a 48 year old unemployed man with no health care.i have already had one heart attack. if this health care bill does not pass. i have no chance of every getting my own doctor. as a poor American. even if i had a good job i could not afford to buy my own health care. so to me if you vote against this health care bill. you are telling me that my life is not important. its bad enough. your VA system let my father die. after serving in two wars to give people like you your freedom.

david blumberg (8/5/09)

Every dollar (and there are BILLIONS of them)of profit made by the health insurance companies is a dollar sucked OUT of the health care system. It does not go to anyone's health care. We MUST have a strong public option to pry this vampire off our necks.

Pamela Griffith (8/4/09)

Mr. Inglis, I implore you to do all within your power to prevent government take-over of health care in America. I worked for 27 years in the health care field, beginning prior to the inception of Medicare and following through with ""managed care" by the insurance companies. What a nightmare this has been for the doctors and their staff! The average American citizen has no idea of all the "red tape" we'll have to cut through if this Obamamaniac plan survives, much less the lack of quality "healthcare" they will receive.

Dottye C. Bishop (8/4/09)

I agree with your above comments. I am a Registered Respiratory Therapist and I provide home care for hundreds of Medicare and Medicaid patients currently on respiratory therapy modalities in their home. My industry is service driven and patient's have the choice to change from my company to another if they choose. We also provide care for many indigent patient's who do not have health care coverage. We would never turn away someone who needed our services based on insurance coverage. I must also say that I am extremely happy with my current coverage and would likely pay more that I do now in order to keep it.

Dottye C. Bishop (8/4/09)

I want you to vote NO on the Health Care Proposal. The last thing I want is the government having anything to do with my and my family's health care. I am convinced this is just political that Hillary Clinton made a deal with Obama that if he pushed this Government run Health Care through the congress that she would drop out of the presidential running.

John Adair (8/3/09)

Two ways to impact healthcare costs: 1. Increase competition by allowing insurers to compete across state lines thereby giving employers the opportunity to expand competitive options availalbe to their employee plans

2. Create a national 'high risk' pool that takes employees and individuals with specified high risk conditions and pools that risk to a nationaly funded pool. The remaining reduced risk translates into lower premiums for those with low or moderate health risks who continue to participate in private plans.

Mike Kline (8/1/09)

I am in no means for a government health care system. In fact if they want to insure 45million additional people then they need to put the entire government onto the same system to include the house, the senate, and military families. Oh wait why not transpose the current medicare and medicaid system from a government run program to a private insurer like Blue Cross and blue shield. The amount of money that is spent yearly by the government can be saved if outsourced to a private insurer and it would save the entire system of we have come to know today and save money in the long run. Why has this not been though?

vanita Pearson (7/31/09)

I have never written you before, but this health reform bill really has me so worried. I am a R.N. with 37 years working in health care in the hospital setting. Please do not support this bill. Let's build on what we now have to improve things, not deep six it and start over with something far inferior. Once we have the inferior product, we will never be able to go back to even what we have now. I love my patients regardless of age or their pre-existing medical conditions and want everyone to be treated with the same efficiency and opportunity to the best health care available. As far as the uninsured, they are never turned away from the ER and are treated with respect and usually the working stiff pays for their treatment anyway; that is nothing new. The rest of us pay our own insurance premiums, get the treatment we want and are happy to do so. Please continue to denounce this bill.

martin ruocco (7/31/09)

I would like to urge you to supprot the conservative market based, patient-centered health care rather than the public option proposed by the Obama administration and in particular the Weiner/Braley self-referral amendment. Thank you- Dr Martin Ruocco.

Howard Caldwell (7/30/09)

Mr Inglis I hoe we are not forced into the healthcare that is in the works now i am 70 years old and i am in concerned that if this thing passes tgeolder people like will not have a chace for a longer life. I don' think the govermet should be able to tell me when my life must come to an end.

Joe Chapman (7/30/09)

We don't need the government to play with our healthcare and give it away to every worthless illegal alien and have the taxpayers on the hook for this mess. Please vote against it. Thank you.

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