Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 | 2:02 a.m.
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Regarding John Esperian’s Nov. 19 letter to the editor, headlined “Boehner is so wrong about health care”:
Esperian cites an example from Arizona in which a patient was denied a heart transplant because of the state of Arizona’s enormous debt. Well, Republican House leader John Boehner has it exactly right.
The implementation of Obamacare will cause the United States to face the highest debt load in the history of the country. The myth that adding millions of people to Medicare and saving money has been debunked.
Obamacare will be the most costly entitlement program in history and cause the national debt to soar. Private insurance companies will be driven out of business and the citizens of this country will face the Arizona situation day after day. Donald Berwick, the new “czar” of Medicare, is on record saying that care will have to be rationed as fiscal assessments are made concerning individual patients.
This massive expansion of government control over health care will cause exactly the situation Esperian describes to become the rule as opposed to the exception. We as Americans cannot afford to put the government in charge of these “life and death” decisions — literally!
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