The senate Healthcare Reform Bill and the machinations that effectuated its passage reflect a value paradigm shift and set a new heading for our moral compass.
What happened to the maxim to distrust anyone who rushes decisions to purchase a product using threats of dire consequences?
Why would anyone agree to pay taxes for four years in advance for services not available until 2014?
Is it fair, not to mention constitutional, to compel taxpayers from 49 other states to pay for 100 percent of Nebraska’s Medicaid expansions in perpetuity?
What is the purpose of inserting a provision creating a Medicare Advisory Board that may not be amended or repealed if not to control and manage the doctor/patient relationship in perpetuity?
Is the coerced purchase of health insurance the price of citizenship?
In light of the corruption, intimidation, bribery, subterfuge and secrecy, how can anyone with a modicum of integrity and intellectual honesty approve of an unaccountable bureaucracy determining the cost and availability of medical treatments, designing the cars we drive, regulating our thermostats, setting guidelines for compensation, etc.?
What would you accept as proof that our representatives treat us with contempt and deem us incapable of making rational decisions for ourselves?
They would also have us believe higher taxes will lower the earth’s temperature and that borrowing and spending beyond our means creates prosperity and there are such things as tooth fairies.
The elitism and hypocrisy of our representatives are embedded in their legislation; they have exempted themselves from the provisions of the Healthcare Reform Bill they seek to inflict on us.
Ed Konecnik
Flushing
