To the editor:
Our congressional representatives, Carol Shea Porter and Paul Hodes, voted for a health care bill that will add a trillion dollars of liability to our national debt and control one sixth of the economy of the United States. I don't think they should be thanked. They should be voted out of office for such irresponsibility. That liability will never be paid off.
This massive takeover of the health care in this country will push us into socialism and result in a huge loss of freedoms. Yes, our health care system needs some reform, but that could be done with six simple and easy to understand changes.
If there is to be mandatory insurance, then there should be no "free" care for anyone, ever. As in truth, there is no such thing.
Prices charged by providers of health care should be reduced by an amount equal to the "free"¬ù care given in the past.
No reduction in reimbursements for health care providers.
Have a federal option only for those that can prove insurance companies turned them down.
Real tort reform.
Allow the sale of health insurance across state lines.
There is no hope in socialism, because only capitalism allows the freedom of choice and freedom from dependency on the government.
Thomas Dangremond
Kingston, N.H.
