sorry this is late and is OFF TOPIC

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Hi everyone,

I have been out of town and did not get in on the Obama healthcrap so I

won't tell you about my opinion but am sending a letter from a petition I

signed last week.....

Friends -

Thanks to your willingness to support the " Free Our Health Care NOW! "

petition where over 740,000 Americans have voiced their opposition to

nationalized health care and the increased cost, reduced access and lower

quality which it threatens to impose on us!

At his press conference Wednesday night, President Obama admitted that the

government will be intervening between you and your doctor. Only to prevent

" unnecessary " care, he said but it will be the government, not the doctor

who decides what's necessary. This is worrisome!

The nationalized health care plan proposed by President Obama calls for

rationed care. Rationed care requires that patients forego medical

procedures which fail to meet federal approval. Under nationalized health

care, a bureaucrat will have the power to delay or deny care to a patient

without regard for the patient's medical needs or for the physician's

advice.

In Canada and the United Kingdom, both of which have adopted a nationalized

health care system, patients' access to care is far more restricted and wait

times are far longer than in the United States. Consider the following wait

times:

.. Better late... In a recent survey of adults suffering from a

chronic condition, 74% of U.S. patients met with a specialist within four

weeks of scheduling an appointment. By comparison, only 42% of British

patients and just 40% of Canadian patients were able to meet with a

specialist in the first four weeks suffering from their condition.

.. ...than Never? In the same survey, 33% of patients in the

United Kingdom and 42% of patients in Canada waited for more than 2 months

before meeting with a specialist to address their chronic condition. In the

United States, only 10% of patients waited for longer than 2 months before

meeting with a specialist.

.. Hazardous Delay. Canadian wait times exceed the clinically

reasonable wait time for every medical specialty . For neurosurgery, for

instance, although the clinically reasonable wait time is 5.8 weeks, the

average Canadian wait time exceeds 31 weeks. Orthopedic surgery is even

worse. The clinically reasonable wait time is 11 weeks; Canadian patients

waiting on orthopedic surgery wait on average almost 37 weeks before they

receive treatment. http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Canadian_UK_HealthSystems.pdf

Rationed care affects all patients. In Canada and the United Kingdom

patients have reduced access to health care providers, longer waits for

examinations and fewer available treatment options. As it has in Canada and

the United Kingdom, nationalized health care in the United States threatens

to reduce the quality of care and therefore, the quality of life for all

Americans.

What can you do about this?

.. Forward the petition www.freeourhealthcarenow.com to your

friends, family and networks!

.. Print the petition http://actionpack.ncpa.org and collect

signatures, send to us.

.. Use the Action Pack http://actionpack.ncpa.org to access our

Learning/Teaching Tools about health care so that you can educate your

friends, family and neighbors.

.. Attend The Heartland Institutes Health Care Roundtables and

meet innovative leaders promoting health care reform.

http://www.heartland.org/events/Roundtables/index.html

.. Send a copy of the proposed government-run plan to your lists

http://docs.house.gov/gopleader/House-Democrats-Health-Plan.pdf

.. Track the progress of the " Free Our Health Care NOW! " petition

by going to http://actionpack.ncpa.org and clicking the 'ticker' link.

.. Share the petition through viral networking by clicking on the

icon of your preferred social media.

Thank you again for your support of the " Free Our Health Care NOW! " and for

fighting against nationalized health care.

Jeanette Nordstrom

National Center for Policy Analysis

www.ncpa.org

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