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In Joan King’s recent column, "Unity helps us overcome challenges," she is wrong to write that the majority of Americans back a single-payer plan.
While she is entitled to her utopian views of health care run by union-controlled government workers, most of us are not wanting a DMV health care experience for our loved ones. I would rather the big profitmakers (fact is, they only make about 3 percent) be successful than watch our government waste 30 percent or more of what it collects in fraud, abuse and corruption, which it cannot control. But it will be able to control votes from the union workers, and that is what Democrats really want.
If the government takes over our health care, it will become far worse than the IRS’s time-consuming politicalized mess. We will have to hire health care agents just to figure out the paperwork. Hard working Americans will see their taxes rise and then have to turn around and buy another policy just to cover what the "utopia" version doesn’t.
What really is most crazy about her Democratic view is that she is not upset as I am about the Democrats wasting billions on everything but helping people who need medical help: TARP, stimulus money, Cash for Clunkers, etc.
No, there is no Utopia, Ms. King, only disaster for the rest of us who like our health care plan.
Lynn Everitt
Oakwood