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If rationing care for the elderly is part of the final health care plan, I demand that our rulers add one inexpensive benefit for seniors denied care "for the common good". The package must include detailed, easy to understand instructions for committing suicide painlessly, with a prescription for medications to do so. Those who have the means can pay for the package, those who can't will get their final "gift" from the taxpayers (aka the Federal Government). There must be no penalty for family and/or friends the patient wants to be with him/her while going off peacefully to the final sleep. A home video could be made, with the patient stating what he/she is about to do, and why, and absolving any person present of responsibility for the patient's suidide. Just think of the savings to taxpayers for expensive (but often neglectful and/or abusive) care in poorly staffed nursing homes, or in hospice. But ... Our rulers will never support such a plan because it would cost them votes, so some (perhaps many) seniors are quietly making their own plans for 'final exits' when government decides they're no longer useful to society.

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Dear Mr. Emmett Tyrrell, for over five (5) decades, these politician criminals have tried everything under the sun to get eveything passed, for the illegitimates, social and welfare recipients, so they can 'justify' what they do! Instead of justification, as far as Taxpayers are concerned, is put America into bankruptcy, sold America's jobs to foreign countries, and created more endless money pits! As of November, 2008, the elections, the amount of money spent (on useless and endless money pits) "was the straw that broke the camels' back!" The 'Pair thats' ready to tackle health care and overhaul it', as stated by Ms. Sebelius and Ms. DeParle is more than another joke - it's downright pathetic! Why haven't they already 'overhauled' this system! They've been around the DC block a time or two! Taxpayers say 'thanks, but no thanks!' These seasoned politicians know it won't work. They have too much time on their hands. It's obvious this led Freddie, Fannie, HUD, AIG, Automakers, and anyone else taking Taxpayers' money, for endless money pits, into bankruptcy! It's time to go back to the 'pay as you go' for doctors and hospitals! In other words, if you don't work, you don't eat and you're certainly not entitled to health care, or anything else, using Taxpayers' money! 'Fair Tax', to include property, should be top priority! Everyone must pay their share, including politicians! Otherwise, it's 'Discrimination against Taxpayers!' Politicians salaries and retirements should be cut to $12,000.00 yearly! If this isn't acceptable, then Taxpayers will sell them a one-way ticket to the foreign country they sold America to, take assets to pay the trillions they've borrowed without Taxpayers' consent! After bankrupting America, these are the only options; unless, of course, they prefer to be sent to Guantanamoas some politicians are no better than the ones sitting in prisons; therefore, along with rest of killers, rapists, and thieves, of all races, this is where they need to be! "Putting the cart before the horse"! When politicians took over, the Moonshiners' stills, for the revenue of course, started bottling, selling the booze, locking you up for drinking it, and furnishing a tax-paid attorney, clothes, medicine, and food. Exorbitant costs and an endless money pit for Taxpayers, wouldn't you say? Politicians, now, want to build infrastructures without having textile and manufacturing jobs in America! Another 'Cart before the horse' hare-brained scheme! Taxpayers want Obama to live up to his stated comments, 'he'd go over line by line and eliminate the endless money pits, the special interest groups, the lobbyists, and the Unions!' Well, what's he waiting for?

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Sir;...You are correct to level your dire predictions at those who can afford news papers and can read...I think it is likely that those with the best educaions, or educations at all, are the sort that will have health insurance... I don't know why you think services would have to be rationed to treat all... We treat all now...It is certain we would not treat more later... So how would taking the profit out of the picture deny services that are already delivered and presumably paid for??? You esses preach fear for profit; but you have no idea of how many you hurt...Do you care??? The union man carries many without insurance because his bills are paid...Those bills not paid must be collected from the insured, -or the government because as it stands, not much care can be reasonably denied to the poor that can be afforded by the rich...The question is: Will we let the total lack of any insurance on the part of the poor drive the price of health care beyond the reach of the whole society??? We should have one system, with all people covered, and a single payer... That would put union workers on par with non-union...It would also establish basic rights to reasonable medical care...We can live without the profit, but there is no way profit can be reasonably restricted... If the example of the civil war is taken, where profits were limited to cost plus reasonable profit, costs were driven up to maximize profits in spite of limitations...We want to end waste... That is easily enough done if we will end profit...We want to end the injustice of people denied reasonable care...That will never happen so long as corporations can use the example of those without health care to sell insurance at unjustified costs to those who cannot dare be without it...Ultimately, the base cost will be the same...I would say; If you want National Health Insurance to pass, then package it all up, and tie a bow on it... Wrap medicade, medicare, VA health, and National Health Insurance in one bundle and let the right vote it down...If it is no problem, then it is no problem, and try to let those with private insurance support all the hospitals without the help of government... Private insurance would fall in a day... The only way that change is going to work is all together as a unit, an absolute perfect whole, and then the people themselves can decide what they want covered...Quit being a fear monger... Get a real job and see what it is like now paying for health care with chump change for wages...Thanks...Sweeney