Russell Williams
Well-Known Member
April 18, 2010
Herald Mail Newspaper
Dear editor:
On Wednesday, April 14 on page 4 of the Herald Mail there was an editorial by David Limbaugh. He was objecting to the recently passed health care legislation. He seems to have had two major objections to the recently passed health care legislation. The first objection is that he feels it will cost too much. His second objection is that the government will start making peoples health care decisions. In particular Mr. Limbaugh interprets someone else as saying:
Obamas bureaucrats will start denying payments for treatments and procedures that they deem unwarranted. That is, theyll start dictating care decisions and theyll ration and pay only for that which they approve. So even if there is some savings here they will be achieved at the cost of patient and physician choice and the quality of care.
Mr. Limbaugh finishes his piece by saying, But costs and taxes arent even the main reasons to fear Obama care. Try the evaporation of our personal liberties.
At the same time my wife received a letter from a local healthcare provider (1). This letter told her that she should have a, normal interview follow-up mammogram and explained that, mammography is the best single method available to detect breast cancer .
At the bottom of the letter from this health care provider was the following statement, Although the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute and the American College of Radiology recommend annual routine screening mammograms for women beginning at age 40, some insurance carriers do not reimburse for this examination. Please check with your insurance company.
I am confused. Mr. Limbaughs position seems to be that the healthcare legislation will mean that my wife will have bureaucrats coming between herself and her medical provider. The letter from the local healthcare provider tells my wife that, depending on which insurance she has, private insurance company bureaucrats may already be coming between my wife and her healthcare provider.
Would it be safe to assume that in the near future David Limbaugh will be writing an editorial attacking the insurance companies for coming between people and their medical providers and thereby evaporating their personal liberties?
Another alternative is that Mr. Limbaugh believes that if the federal government and private industry do exactly the same thing it is an evil socialist plot if it is done by the government but no objection should be raised if the exact same thing is done by private enterprise.
Yours truly,
Russell Williams
(1)Diagnostic Imaging Services in a letter dated April 12, 2010
Although I am an active member of many organizations in this community the above letter represents my own personal opinion and not the opinion of any of the organizations of which I am a member.
Herald Mail Newspaper
Dear editor:
On Wednesday, April 14 on page 4 of the Herald Mail there was an editorial by David Limbaugh. He was objecting to the recently passed health care legislation. He seems to have had two major objections to the recently passed health care legislation. The first objection is that he feels it will cost too much. His second objection is that the government will start making peoples health care decisions. In particular Mr. Limbaugh interprets someone else as saying:
Obamas bureaucrats will start denying payments for treatments and procedures that they deem unwarranted. That is, theyll start dictating care decisions and theyll ration and pay only for that which they approve. So even if there is some savings here they will be achieved at the cost of patient and physician choice and the quality of care.
Mr. Limbaugh finishes his piece by saying, But costs and taxes arent even the main reasons to fear Obama care. Try the evaporation of our personal liberties.
At the same time my wife received a letter from a local healthcare provider (1). This letter told her that she should have a, normal interview follow-up mammogram and explained that, mammography is the best single method available to detect breast cancer .
At the bottom of the letter from this health care provider was the following statement, Although the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute and the American College of Radiology recommend annual routine screening mammograms for women beginning at age 40, some insurance carriers do not reimburse for this examination. Please check with your insurance company.
I am confused. Mr. Limbaughs position seems to be that the healthcare legislation will mean that my wife will have bureaucrats coming between herself and her medical provider. The letter from the local healthcare provider tells my wife that, depending on which insurance she has, private insurance company bureaucrats may already be coming between my wife and her healthcare provider.
Would it be safe to assume that in the near future David Limbaugh will be writing an editorial attacking the insurance companies for coming between people and their medical providers and thereby evaporating their personal liberties?
Another alternative is that Mr. Limbaugh believes that if the federal government and private industry do exactly the same thing it is an evil socialist plot if it is done by the government but no objection should be raised if the exact same thing is done by private enterprise.
Yours truly,
Russell Williams
(1)Diagnostic Imaging Services in a letter dated April 12, 2010
Although I am an active member of many organizations in this community the above letter represents my own personal opinion and not the opinion of any of the organizations of which I am a member.
