by Megan O'Brian

Created on: February 28, 2010   Last Updated: March 01, 2010

What Congress needs to address in the healthcare reform debate is the one thing they have refused to address and that is the fact that  the American people do NOT want Obamacare and do not want this "reform" bill shoved down their throats!

No can deny that changes must be made.  The cost of health care has risen steadily and insurance companies continue to raise the  premiums despite having made huge profits at the expense of their customers every year. 

That having been said, the "change" that is needed and what Congress should be working toward  is a  takeover of those  insurance companies if they don't lower their rates on their own and forcing them them to lower their rates.  Instead Congress is working toward a hostile takeover of the lives and health care decisions of the American people.

We have all heard how the President is " very concerned about the health and well being of the uninsured" and how he is dedicated to helping all Americans get affordable health care.  He could do this by allowing all uninsured to be put on Medicaid and ordering insurance companies to lower the cost of private health insurance. 

Rather than do that , his plan mandates Americans to buy health insurance or face heavy fines.  Small business would be mandated to provide health insurance to their employees if the company employs more than 50 employees or face the same heavy fines. His plan includes having a special "insurance czar" who would keep track of the people who  have bought health insurance and those who haven't. Those who refuse to purchase health insurance will be reported and punished.   Are we still living in America , the land of the free?

The government does NOT have the power to mandate citizens to do anything - it is unconstitutional, yet this man who is known to have strong Marxist beliefs has chosen to ignore the Constitution and push forward  his plan to deny us one of our most important freedoms, our Constitutional  right to freedom of choice.  Health care is one of the most important and most personal of issues and his plan will take away  that right to make choices about our own health care.  The fact that he has chosen NOT to mandate private health insurance companies to lower their rates is cause for questioning.

  The "public option" would be there for those Americans who couldn't afford private health insurance.   In todays recession, with  millions

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