August 15, 2009 - WHY EVERYONE IS IN AN UPROAR ABOUT HEALTH CARE

I am confident that most people realize that health care needs to be reformed. As a nurse who has worked primarily in hospitals, I am well aware as to what is wrong with our current health care system. I agree wholeheartedly that it absolutely needs to be reformed!

EVERYONE should have health care. What is bothering most of us is...WHAT KIND OF HEALTH CARE WILL IT BE?

IT IS FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN THAT HAS EVERYONE UPSET!

What the uproar in the Townhall meetings is about is that that a bill has been prepared by God only knows who...and we wonder who has decided on the policies that will be in place that will affect our health care system. Who has been responsible for the 1000+ pages of the bill? Who provided the data/information that is in the bill? Was it the lawmakers or their staffers? We did not elect the staffers to do the work. We elected the lawmakers to do the work and it is apparent that they did not prepare the bill because most of them have admitted they have not even read it. How can they vote on a bill they have not read? This should be illegal.

We don't want a bill passed that has not been read/comprehended by our elected officials and then thoroughly explained to us before they vote.

Greta Van Susteren, a lawyer who has her own show on Fox News, has stated that she has tried to read the bill and that she finds it incomprehensible. Another man at a Townhall meeting stated that he took two weeks to try and read it and it reads like a foreign language. Other well educated people have taken a stab at it and finds that most of it is unintelligible to a normal person. This is wrong!

Obama is working overtime to "sell" us on this bill. Does anyone really believe that he has actually read the bill himself? We would buy into his rhetoric if we were convinced that he is not just giving us some "spin" about what is going to happen when the bill is passed.

Another thing...what is the rush about something so important? As someone said...his family took six months to decide on what kind of a dog they should pick. Surely, this health care bill is more important than picking out a dog.

If the Republicans were trying to ram this bill down our throats...the same thing would be happening at the Townhall meetings. This is not a Democratic problem. This is a problem of our current administration insulting our intelligence by thinking that we are going to "simply trust them" regarding this bill.

Over the years, most people have grown to question the motives of any politician. Some people simply swallow what they are told and do not question things that raise red flags. This health care bill has raised tons of red flags.

I am all for health care reform but it needs to be reformed in such a way that it does not deteriorate in quality, timeliness, and cost...and so far they have not convinced the average American that this will happen.

ATTENTION LAWMAKERS: READ THE BILL AND TELL US WHAT IT SAYS IN DETAIL AND THEN WE MIGHT BE READY FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM. We do not want to wind up with a Canadian type of health care system.