Dear Congressman Kratovil,
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my mail. Being as busy as I know you are ducking unhappy voters I appreciated your effort.
After reading your very comprehensive and lengthy letter I would like to state that I too am for Mom and Apple Pie.. However, since the high cost of health care is the key issue, I am disappointed that I did not read anything in your letter about something being done about:
1. TORT REFORM, a major contributor to our health care costs.
2. Building about 50 medical schools. Our shortage of doctors is endemic and will get worse with the retirement of the "baby boomers".
3. Incentives for young people to attend Medical Schools. Scholarships and grants that can be forgiven after five years of public community work, like providing geriatric care.
4. Curbing the cost of pharmaceuticals, a major cost in health care.. The Federal Government would subsidize research with tax breaks/write offs, if the market price is reduced when the medication is released.
5. Building more, hi-tech hospitals and clinics, for MRI, CAT Scan and a host of hi-tech procedures, we need more of these as well.
6. Prevention: our indolent life style and junk foods contribute to our failing health and the cost of maintaining it..Reductions in premiums for those that practice a healthy life style, like reduced insurance rates for non-smokers. This will allow those with un-healthy lifestyles to bear their fair share and who knows, they may change and live better, longer..
Federal money, my tax dollars, for the new schools, hospitals, clinics and scholarships to be funneled through and administered by the states. This would help keep Government's big hands out of the mix.
My issue, and I say this with all due respect, with you and your buddies in Washington is that you spend more time looking at the hole and ignore the doughnut.
We are not against spending but we are against "DUMB SPENDING" and are bound and determined to elect Officials that are prudent with our tax dollars and more interested in serving the people rather than being served by the people.
So in closing, you can heed these words of advice or your replacement can.
Sincerely and with much respect,
Tony Passaro
Bel Air Tea Party Coalition
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
Tony apparently doesn't realize that the AMA limits the number of people who can be admitted to medical school there by artificially inflating salaries. Points 2 and 3 should be directed toward the AMA, not Congress.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the congress is far too incompetent, as suggested by 8:29 AM, to find common sense solutions to any problem. How ignorant can the Obama supporters get?
ReplyDeleteThey can support government intervention in the auto industry, the financial industry and the energy industry, but when it comes to training health care providers they can't do anything.
Perhaps one of the elements in the health care legislation should be to commit all Obama supporters to mental institutions, at government expense of course.
Do you support getting rid of Medicare, Tony?
ReplyDeleteThe entire country is going bankrupt and these idiots wont stop it. We have to stop them, by any means at all.
ReplyDeleteIs Kratovil's staff on here too?
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