It all starts with tort reform

Several letters in the Daily Herald lately have urged support for the disastrous federal takeover of American health care. The purported original goal was to provide health care insurance for 10 percent who lacked it. But now, we know that there are still about 10 percent of Americans without health care insurance.

Taxes will be collected for four years, before “benefits” start, so after 10 years taxes will need to go up almost 70 percent. But the Congressional Budget Office says even that funding is unworkable, since Congress used the same dollars twice in the bill. Doctors are already bailing out of Medicare, because their fees have been reduced even further, and nothing has been done about tort reform.

This is truly ridiculous. We need to start over, taking out the gradual government takeover of the health care industry, the requirement for Americans to buy health care insurance, the takeover of the education loan industry, the regulation of gold sales, the formation of a federal civilian police force, etc., and starting with sensible tort reform.

Peter G. Malone

St. Charles