Letter from a Concerned and Upset Citizen
Honorable Congresswomen:
As a young and hardworking American, I steadfastly oppose the largest expansion of the financially unsound Medicare program since the "Great Society", itself an abject failure. This further intervention into what little is left of the market for medical services will further distort the market for medicine, further the entitlement mentality, and drive drug prices higher. It is my generation, not yours or the elderly, that will pay for this plan and the books will be balanced upon my backs and the backs of my children in the form of higher taxes and inflation. This expansion of Medicare will make my family poorer and I do not appreciate your efforts to do so.
We are told time and time again that the Republican Party is the party of free markets, individual responsibility, and liberty. If so, why is the GOP supporting the expansion of a pillar of American socialism? The medical industry needs to be unleashed from Federal regulation, not subjected to a miasma of increased intervention, regulation, and subsidy. Are Republicans supportive of free markets or, like the Democrats, does the party now believe that wealth and prosperity can be legislated into existence, paid for by massive deficit spending, and that the iron laws of a world of scarce resources can be ignored?
If the GOP has decided to follow the Democratic Party in its march to the Left, please let your constituents know so they may be more informed voters during the next election.
A Concerned and Upset Citizen,
Well put.
Posted by Matt at June 21, 2003 2:06 PM
