Don't Socialize Healthcare

Again, another letter to my senator, reproduced here for my readers (what few there are):

Senator Bennet,
When this nation was founded, it was founded on the principles of local government first, federal government last. You have highlighted the advances Colorado has made in health care in your recent newsletter. That is exactly the place where we should address health care issues, here at the local and state levels.

It is your duty as Senator to ensure that Colorado remains a strong state that is not tied down by Federal constraints. Please do not sign on to socialized, or even quasi socialized measures that pump money to a federal bureaucracy only to come back to Colorado after large percentage is siphoned off. Please do not vote for measures that kill choice and freedom.

The solution to healthcare costs is to take insurance back to what it is supposed to be: insurance against disaster. Normal people should rarely use insurance. If you are using it often without any dire circumstances, it isn't insurance! It's a cost sharing system that ensures that people are disconnected from true market costs. This always encourages them to use more healthcare then is necessary. This causes costs to rise. It also forces a bureaucracy on doctors that costs more.

The solution is to make all healthcare expenditures tax deductible, wean employers from having to provide it, and letting insurance be portable.

These measures will solve the crisis without further eroding the freedom of the state of Colorado and it's citizens who would otherwise be governed by federal mandates.
Nathan