To the Editor:
U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi said that we must pass President Obama’s health care law to find out what is in it. U.S. Rep. Robert Andrews, D-1st Dist., bragged that he wrote some of the the law.
People are concerned about the content and the impact of this law. Some predict that this reshaping of health care in the United States will cost $17 trillion over time. The Supreme Court is tasked with determining the constitutionality of the law.
The president criticized the court as unelected officials. Obama has czars and appointed unelected officials to make decisions concerning our health care. Twenty-six states engaged in the suit that brought the subject to the court because the states feel they cannot afford what the law will cost.
Corporations will find methods to move more employment out of the the United States because of the requirements. Other employers will drop health care benefits because it will cost them less to have their employees placed under a government plan.
Two years were wasted because a Democratic Congress believed it could pass that law because of its authority to control interstate commerce. A law could have been written to simply allow health insurance companies to write policies across state lines, and make insurance more competitive among providers.
The law should have created incentives for age-based policies similar to annuities for future catastrophic conditions.
We, as working citizens, pay our taxes and contribute to a bureaucracy of government-created jobs with unelected administrators. Do we need a larger IRS or another set of screeners like those at our airports?
A simplified approach would have been more practical and probably much less intrusive to the economy. With the elections coming, we need to decide who these “smartest kids in the room” are, who wanted to prove they knew better.