An Open Letter FROM Patrick McHenry

April 28, 2011

Dear Mr. Womack:

Thank you for contacting my office regarding Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security reforms under the fiscal year 2012 Republican budget plan. I appreciate having the benefit of your thoughts. 

Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security compromise 60 percent of the federal budget, and represent the fastest growing   . . .

WOAH!  Sir . . . I thought you knew that Social Security brings in more money than it spends (actually, I thought everybody knew that!) and Medicare, not quite as effective, still brings in almost 60% of its TOTAL costs.  So, I respectfully request that you take this letter back and rewrite it.  

 I did request you to explain why on earth you voted FOR Representative Paul Ryan's budget bill, and NOW I am beginning to see why you might have done such a destructive thing to 95% of your constituents.  You have not been properly briefed.  So, may I respectfully request that you return to the issue, review all budget matters, particularly issues relating to the difference between budget expenditures and budget income.  Then you will be better able to carry on a dialog with the people you have taken an oath to represent in congress.  You will also be able to point out to Representative Ryan how you all can write a new budget that will protect and improve both Social Security and help bring about Medicare for All Americans.  

Respectfully yours,

John  Womack

Open Letter to Mr. McHenry about Health Insurance

Dear Mr. McHenry:

Why do we even HAVE health-insurance companies? Health care is basically a supply-demand equation and we Americans know how to handle that. We buy groceries, houses, computers, automobiles, clothing, education and so on without any insurance “gatekeepers” to tell us “OK, you can have a Ford but not a Pontiac” or “no, you can’t buy a coat this winter, you bought one last year.” Or "you can't have anymore generic DVDs, you will have to buy these (which cost ten times as much)." And it’s not like we don’t all use health-care. Americans use health-care to get born, we use a lot of it when we die, and we all need teeth repaired and glasses replaced. From time to time we all have accidents and get sick and we all need health care. We "demand" medical services and we have a top-notch medical industry of doctors, nurses, hospitals, and organizations who can "supply" those services. Why do we think we need a gate-keeper to tell us we can have this but not that, or that's a “pre-existing condition”, or a certain procedure we need to live will cost more than we can afford so we can't have it, or that those pills the doctor has prescribed will cost $600 a month, even though they don’t really “cost” nearly that much?  And people who live in other countries get those same pills for much, much less!

We can take care of ourselves together as a nation, and supply-demand will work in this industry like it does elsewhere. All of the money these insurance companies get is money we pay to them, then they give a little bit of it back to us in the form of permission to get some medical service, and the rest goes for their own profit, to their rich CEOs and to buy off our senators and representatives. THEN, they pay less and less in income tax every year and even get some subsidies from the U. S. national government.  Let's get rid of ALL health insurance companies and let the citizens and medical industry of the United States collectively provide the care we need through a PUBLIC - not OPTION - but SERVICE - like Medicare for All - and really provide for our nation’s general welfare.

After all, no national resource is of more importance to any industralized nation that the health of its workforce.  And THAT is too important to be left to any private company that MUST continue to increase their profit every quarter of every year.

John Womack.

                                                              

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