Dodd & Sebelius in Hartford Dr Lee clarifies the issue..... Aug 3

The debate over national health care has become a heated issue. At a staged media event, in a small venue, tucked away on a side street in Hartford, CT, Senator Chris Dodd, his Connecticut colleague, Representative Rosa DeLauro, and a couple of Washington heavyweights, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and SBA Administrator Karen Mills, spoke to the media and heard from several invited individuals about their concerns and personal experiences with health care, or a lack thereof.

Dr. Lee, a health care consultant to candidate Barack Obama, stood up to help clarify some issues. His words tell the story. It is a complicated issue, and too serious an issue to rush. As more people read the President's Bill, the more skeptical they become.

Everyone would like free health care, but as we adults know from experience, nothing is free, except, for the freeloaders.

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• single payer
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[informedskeptic]

Ask Dr. Lee about the survival rate for prostrate cancer in France or the UK. His chances of survival there are much lower. Funny that his survival is due to our current system, which he then goes on to trash. BTW, Dodd like other government officials will be allowed to avoid the healthcare system he trying to push down our throats. Another success for our current system.

[informedskeptic]

To further my discussion regarding education. European schools use a voucher system where the money follows the child. ie. Schools are forced to compete as is any other business in the private sector for your dollars. Their children routinely outperform our children. Interestingly, our children begin school ahead of theirs in testing but fall behind by the time they graduate.

Conclusion: The public school system doesn't work. Let's not put a similar ineffective system into healthcare.

[informedskeptic]

5. When has the government ever been able to compete on a level playing field with the private sector. Look at education. Private schools have consistently provided a better education to their students with fewer dollars spent per student (with the exception of the exclusive private schools that say Obama has his kids attending). Wasn't the public sector good enough?

One has only to apply a slight amount of common sense to this issue to see through it. It's about control. Gov'ts crave it.

[informedskeptic]

4. Explain the complete lives system? It is obvious the claimed cost savings come at the expense of the very young and the very old. Meaning when people are at their most vulnerable, their care will be rationed or at the very least delayed. Look at other countrys that have socialized medicine. Look at their cancer survival rates. Look at the average wait times. Very bleak by comparison to ours.

Obama always says you can't compare our system to theirs. What system can we compare it to?

[informedskeptic]

1. Will the politicians be on the same plan they are asking us to be on?

2. Obama states he will allow us to keep our current insurance plan. Earlier videos show him stating that he wants us to end up on a single-payer system. Even stating that it would take a while to get there. See the problem. Was he lying then or now?

3. We all are aware of the fraud that goes on within Medicaid and Medicare. Do you want to extend those poorly run systems across the entire healthcare system?

[connecticutman1]

Thanks for putting my short message (about 40 seconds in) in there unedited. Next time we meet I will return the favor.