EDITOR'S NOTE: Donna Garner is a frequent contributor to RFFM.org. Garner resides in central Texas and was an educator for 33 years before her recent retirement. Garner was appointed by President Reagan and re-appointed by President Bush to serve on the National Commission on Migrant Education in the late 1980's through the early 1990's. Garner was chosen to serve on the English / Language Arts / Reading (ELAR) writing team for Texas when the TEKS education standards were developed for the public schools (1995-97).
Garner was also the lead writer of the Texas Alternative Document (TAD) for ELAR when educators grew concerned about the lack of explicitness, grade-level specificity and measurability in the TEKS. As a volunteer, Garner worked closely with Texas State Board of Education members and the Texas Education Agency to write new ELAR standards that were adopted in May 2008. Garner was a writer/researcher for Scott & White Hospital's Worth the Wait abstinence education program.
Almost five years ago, she became the writer/consultant for MyStudyHall.com which is an online tutorial to help students ages 10 through 100 learn English skills. Garner is currently a researcher and author involving political, social and education issues and she is an advocate for many pro-family, pro-life organizations.
Researcher Says Don't Stand Up And Cheer Yet: Democratic-Supported Legislation Will Lead To Eventual Government Take-Over Of Healthcare In America
Before you stand up and cheer for U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) bill that is meant to set federal caps on insurance rates, let’s look at the issue a little more carefully (Note: See New York Times article titled "Senate Bill Sets a Plan to Regulate Premiums" by Robert Pear: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/health/policy/21health.html
Fact: The Democrat-passed healthcare bill does nothing to control healthcare costs. In truth, it was never meant to do so. The intent of the healthcare bill was to eventually implement a single-payer system by way of little baby steps -- “incrementalism.” The end result is to put the federal government in charge of everyone’s healthcare so that everyone can easily be controlled by the federal government.
To get to the single-payer system, the idea is to drive insurance companies out of business. Those companies, to survive the onslaught of new insureds, including those with expensive pre-existing conditions, are presently being forced to raise their premiums in order to get ready for the future federal mandates.
Insurance companies are trying to build up a backlog of finances to carry them through the 2014 flood of newly insured people. Because many of these people will pay nothing out of their own pockets for healthcare, but will rely upon taxpayers to pay it for them, the tendency will be for these uninvested people to run to the doctor even when they have a sniffle. This will put a tremendous strain on insurance companies and upon the entire healthcare system.
Now Sen. Feinstein is trying to put the nail in the coffin by passing a bill that will cap those insurance premiums in hopes that insurance companies will go belly up.
In other words, Feinstein and the other Democrats are trying to tighten the screws at either end until the insurance companies are pressured out of business which is exactly what the Democrats want to happen.
The Democrat-passed healthcare bill must be repealed, piece by piece; and the appropriations for each part of it must be voted down. No appropriations…no healthcare bill.
This is why the November 2010 election is so very important. Before we vote for any candidates in that election, we must find out if they genuinely have the courage and fortitude to vote against the implementation of the healthcare bill.
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