Private health care should be left alone

Private health care should be left alone

Rep. Bruce Braley, we have been trying to have rational health care conversation via e-mail, phone calls and town hall meetings. We typically get flush letters. Why do we need more choices in health insurance coverage? There are thousands of insurance companies and we need more choice?

Government takeover of health care - will that give us more “choice”? I don't think so. Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that health care is a right!

We have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. No guarantee of happiness.

If Congress wants to reduce the cost of health care, start with tort reform. Doctors pay exorbitant money for malpractice insurance. Why? Because we have sue-happy attorneys and some patients. In order for physicians to lessen their chances of being sued, they do every test forward and backward to cover their bases.

Health care insurance was offered by employers as an incentive for people to come to work for them. Now, government may make it mandatory or they will be taxed. The government needs to leave private health care alone.

Randi Larson,

Cedar Rapids