A letter to your congressman

Dear Mr. Hill, I have watched the health care debates with great interest and have written to you about it before. I hear democrats saying that it will reduce the deficit. Some sound sincere, and some sound like partisan hacks. I hear republicans saying that it will explode the deficit. Some sound sincere, and some sound like partisan hacks. Mr. Hill, no matter how good the intentions may be behind this bill, nobody really knows what it will do. It's just too complicated, and too intrusive, for anyone to be able to say with any degree of confidence just exactly what it will do. We can hope. We can guess. We can pray. But we can’t know. Do we really want to roll the dice on a trillion dollar bet as unpredictable as this bill? Health care reform, yes. This particular heath care reform bill, hell no. I have ZERO confidence in this or any other administration being able to find the savings that the President says he will find by redirecting money that is now being spent unwisely. Somebody is benefiting from that money, and they will fight to keep it, and they will win some of those fights. They might win most of them. I have ZERO confidence that the President can find money for the bill by eliminating fraud. It's much like saying, "go ahead and write the check, and I'll try to have it covered by the time it hits the bank." In regards to fraud, I say, "show me the money". We shouldn't be eliminating fraud for the sake of a health care bill. We should eliminate it because it is the right thing to do. Is it done yet? No? Well, get it done, show me the money, and then we can discuss whether to spend the found money on health care. I have ZERO confidence in anything that Speaker Pelosi says or does. Her credibility is damaged beyond repair. I feel very comfortable in saying a good reason for America not to want this bill is because Speaker Pelosi does want it. I have ZERO confidence that the House will be able to “reconcile” enough aspects of the Senate bill to make any difference, and I have a reasonable degree of suspicion that once the President signs the bill that the House won’t reconcile anything. They are saying “trust us”, when they have proven that they are not trustworthy. The democrats that say it will reduce the deficit, or be deficit neutral, or not raise it very much, all based that on the idea that it will come in within budget. Mr. Hill, do you think that you and your colleagues can keep this within budget? If you do, then I might suggest that you are being very unrealistic. And even if you and your colleagues can keep this within Budget, how about future lawmakers? Can they? If you think they can, I might suggest that it is time for you to retire. Can you name one federal entitlement program that has ever come in within budget? No? Can you name one that only blew it’s budget by 100 percent? No? How about 200 hundred percent? There is just no way in the world that this will cost only as much as Pelosi, Reid, and Obama say that it will. The bill is already bad, even if it works perfectly, and it can’t do anything but get worse over a period of time, and you know it won’t work perfectly. Mr. Hill, it's too big, too complicated, too cumbersome, too controversial, too corrupted, too contradictory, too expensive, and too unstable. I really hate that congress has wasted a good part of the past year trying to put this together, but I would hate it even more if we waste the next several decades trying to repair the damage that you are about to do. Sincerely, Neill Arnhart

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