Promised health care benefits don’t add up

I am amazed at the fundamental lack of understanding of the economic implications a national health care program would create. First, insuring more people will not cost less! Simple economics dictate that the more you have the more it will cost unless what you are buying is inferior.

Next, just because the president swears that if you have good insurance now, you will be able to keep it, doesn't make it true. The president is making promises he can't predict.

Most of us get insurance from the companies that employ us. Business 101 states that your priority is to increase shareholder equity. So, as a CEO, if the government is going to take care of your employees' health care, saving your company millions of dollars every year, wouldn't you let them? Of course, but now millions more people are dumped into the program, causing the cost to explode and leaving the taxpayer with the bill.

Already, up to 40 percent of our paychecks go to some aspect of government, yet this country is still broke. Throw in another trillion-dollar-plus program and what will be left for us to live on?

Those who courageously stand up against national health care are being called mobs, organized thugs, Nazis and un-American. I disagree. The true un-Americans are elected officials who refuse to see that their actions have steep consequences to the people they represent.

Mike Cram

Urbana