Is health care law logical, honest?

President Obama and proponents of the health care bill claim everyone can keep their doctor and insurance. They say the number of doctors will increase, services will improve, there will be no rationing, waste and fraud will decrease, premiums will be lowered, billions will be saved, Medicare made more solvent, there will be no denial of pre-existing conditions, 30 million more will be covered.

The reality is, according to a survey of doctors in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals one-third of the doctors say they will retire if passed. Can we really keep our doctor, improve services and not have rationing?

Both parties have done nothing to clean up waste and fraud for over 45 years.

Will they now really find a way to do it?

Savings from Medicare will go to new entitlements. States with cap on tort reform will be ineligible for certain funds unless they conform to federal regulations.

Both Sen. Harkin and the president say this bill is but the first step, the president citing Canada as transitioning to the single payer system later.

Much of the bill was done behind closed doors with sweetheart deals, bribes and threats. It is not bipartisan with only token Republican input. Consider the government has never run anything efficiently, not Amtrak, the post office, Social Security or entitlements.

Is this really reform?

Sharon Haugen

North Aurora