Once again, American taxpayers are faced with a powerful
politician trying to shove what they believe we need down our
throats regardless of content, cost, potential impact, or
desire for it. There is no question but that something needs
to be done to slow or stop the ever-rising cost of healthcare
in our country. There is no question but that all Americans
should have access to decent healthcare at a reasonable cost.
The problem is that once again we hear the rants and cries of
our politicians that we have no time to read the bill before
passing it. We have no time to analyze the bill in question or
to do reasonable cost/benefits analysis. We have no time to
properly assess how much this bill will cost our children, our
grandchildren, and us. We have no time to search for or look
at alternatives. This attitude has already cost us trillions
of dollars in current and future spending commitments. It is
time for the American Taxpayer to stand-up and say NO! Ms.
Pelosi - you cannot ram this bill through until we have taken
a REALLY good look at it, removed the pork, assessed the short
and long term costs, measured the potential benefits, and
understood why this is the best plan. It is our money Ms.
Pelosi and we have a right to know and understand where it is
going and why? The bill may ultimately be passed exactly as
written but not until we have had the chance to see if we
think we will get our money's worth from it!
The fact that a politician is elected does not mean that they
have a blank check backed by taxpayer dollars to be spent as
fast and as much as they see fit. The taxpayers backing that
check have certain rights. Among those is the right to know
and understand why their money is being spent and what their
money is being spent on. When any politician brings a six or
eight hundred page bill to the floor and says "we need
this passed today", that is simply unreasonable and
should raise the suspicions of all taxpayers. If Ms. Pelosi
went into a department store to buy a new outfit and a clerk
handed her a box containing an unseen outfit and demanded she
pay for it, I feel sure that Ms. Pelosi would view this as
nothing short of preposterous; yet, that is exactly what she
is asking us to do. It may be that this is the best healthcare
plan anyone has ever devised and one that every taxpayer in
America will exuberantly support . . . but, if we are not
given the opportunity to take a good look at the content of
the plan, we are buying an unseen outfit in a box! We need to
see if the outfit is one we will be comfortable wearing and if
it is our size.