Response

To the Editor:

Sen. Russ Feingold had a letter published in The Review on March 29. In the letter he defends his vote on the health care bill that was rammed through Congress recently and signed by the president. To anyone who pays attention, Feingold’s assertions are quite absurd.

The first thing Feingold does is pass the blame for all of the problems of our present health care system onto the insurance companies as if Congress has nothing to do with health care costs. Fact is that insurance companies can only react to what government dictates. Every whim of the politicians that control the health care system has a cost that is passed along to the consumer by the insurance companies. The attempt by Feingold to make the insurance companies the whipping boys without acknowledging the complicity of our government is cowardly. Kind of like shooting the messenger.

What really is astonishing is Feingold’s attempt to make the reader believe that we are “reducing the deficit by more than $100 billion over the next 10 years, with $1.2 trillion in additional deficit reduction in the following decade.”

Only the uninformed and gullible among us will believe that. This new Obamacare program along with Social Security, Medicare and all of the other government handouts is going to create a financial liability that even the U.S. government will be unable to sustain.

What Feingold doesn’t mention is the huge tax increases written into this legislation and coming our way. For those “poor” folks who think that this is all get and no give, the pain will trickle down to you in the form of fewer job opportunities, lower wages, higher prices, and rationing of medical care.

Only the privileged few like Sen. Feingold, who voted himself out of Obamacare, will dodge this bullet.

Dennis Gasper