Do you approve?

By all accounts people disapprove of what Congress is doing by 2:1. That's right. We don't like the health care system Congress wants to impose on us. CNN and Fortune show us the five freedoms we'll lose under the current proposals:

1. We'll lose the freedom to choose what’s in our plans
2. We'll lose the freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay our real costs
3. We'll lose the freedom to choose high-deductible coverage
4. We'll lose the freedom to keep our existing plan
5. We'll lose the freedom to choose our doctors

Now, the Senate may be doing something about number four, so we'll see. Number three is very important to me as I have one of those plans. Despite BHO's promises that we'll be able to keep our current coverage, it doesn't look like it.

It is time for change. We need fiscally responsible legislators sensitive to the needs of taxpayers. I am voting for change.

House health bill gets WORSE

From the "We're from the Government and we're here to help" department. Consider this from the House health bill:

Under “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,” the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section says

the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day [of the year the legislation becomes law].

In other words, individuals will NOT BE ALLOWED to buy insurance. "Protecting," my a**. Which means consultants like me will not even be allowed to buy insurance other than from the Government. We can probably keep what we have (if it meets the rules) but if the bill is approved this year, we will not even be able to keep insurance bought before the bill was proposed. I do not think that this is what the Founding Fathers intended.

More at Investors Business Daily.

But hey, it's "change".

Whatever happened to "give me liberty or give me death"? I am voting for a positive change.