Pro-choice for insurance

The proposed “health care reforms” would not only make our health care problems far worse, but also virtually eliminate all possibility of true improvement.

They are designed to force out private health insurance and force us into a government-run system, from which we could never escape. For all the faults of the private system, what competition the government has left gives some incentive for improvement, and the diversity of companies provides some options. However, government bureaucracies have no motivation to provide good service at low prices. Government health care would be a nightmare of bureaucratic inefficiency, with no possibility of other options for people who needed care the government did not consider cost-effective. The bureaucrats certainly would not be more compassionate than the insurance companies.

We need more freedom in health care, such as freedom to choose our health insurance companies as we do with other types of insurance, not more government control. We do not need the government taxing away our money, forcing us into debt, and destroying our currency through inflation to force us into an inefficient health care system that will deny needed care to many.

No reform is better than catastrophic deformation.

Rebecca Larsen

Spangle, Wash.