Get ready for health care sucker punch

We all want legitimate health care reform, but the crooks in Washington always take advantage of the public's needs to pour in the pork and inject government control to steal taxpayer money and bankrupt this nation. Let's identify the massive fraud and lies that are being used to sell the current bill to a misinformed public.

First, the massive 2,500-page bill was done behind locked doors with no Republican input. Second, it is the largest Ponzi scam on earth. It contains 10 years of taxes and only six years of benefits. For anyone that passed math, that means the bill is at least 40 percent more expensive than the $1 trillion advertised. Third, it contains hundreds of billions of dollars in bribes to politicians and unions to pass it. The Democrats constantly slam health insurance companies as grotesquely profitable. But the fact is that health insurance companies make an average of 2.2 percent profit and the largest one makes 3.4 percent profit, versus the average Fortune 500 Company that makes 8 percent to 9 percent profit. If all the profit of insurance companies was eliminated, it would eliminate two days of health care costs a year, or 0.005 percent of health care costs. And then the government officials that bankrupted Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the post office will take over. Heaven help us.

Only the American people can stop this financial disaster because the real cost is pegged at $2.5 trillion, not $1 trillion. The Democrats are planning to jam this through with "reconciliation" despite the fact that the American people don't want it. It is time for us all to raise hell and let them know we won't take it. Speak now, or our children are doomed to poverty.

Randy Rossi

Grayslake