Trying to sneak national health care

Hidden in the Stimulus Bill is a precursor to National Health Care, the Department of Information and Health Technology. Under the guise of streamlining health care records the administration is laying the groundwork for National Health Care. We need only look after the nationalized health care programs in Canada and Great Brittan to see the outcome of such programs.

A Federal Council, patterned after the U.K. board, would approve or disapprove treatments using a formula that divides the cost of treatment by the number of years a patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than diseases that affect the elderly. Our government would decide who would be treated, what treatment they would receive, and when they would receive it.

For decades, Democrats have portrayed Republicans as people who want to take away Social Security benefits from our elderly citizens. National Health Care, when it comes and it will come, will relegate our elderly to the table scraps of medical treatment. Is this what we, as seniors, had envisioned in our Golden Years? It is time to speak out and time to act, while there is still time.

Ray Cziczo

Antioch