Here is a picture that should scare us all! Just thought I would share it. I know there is a health care problem in this country, but compared to other countries who have gone the socialist/ rationing route, the United States health care system provides excellent care. The stories from Canada are frightening.....waiting seven or eight months to get into see a specialist is reprehensible. A lot of people can't wait that long and when they do it is TOOOOO LATE. This country is at THE crossroads and the devil is beckoning to us to follow him down a road which I fear will lead to disaster all of us.

Our president is already implying that after a certain age it is not expedient to choose life preserving surgeries. I heard a commentator say that age could be as low as 59 for some procedures! I doubt most people at age 59 or age 60 are thinking they are willing to throw in the towel....thankful for the time they have had if there is a way they may extend their lives allowing them to be productive members of families and society. Think of the what they would be able to do with an extra ten or twenty years. For those of us with grandchildren we understand the desire to be here as long as possible. Also, people want to be able to be with their spouse as long as possible....or to be available to their parents.

It is now we need to begin with our calls and letters to legislators letting them know we don't want the European/Canadian health care system. We want access to health care WHEN we need it and WHERE we need to get it.

In a speech Obama offered a question on the efficacy of further care for his grandmother saying, "and the question was, does she get hip replacement surgery, even though she was fragile enough they were not sure how long she would last?"

Jim's grandfather had a hip replacement in his 90's and was able to live until the age of 100 without pain. Quality of life will be decided by the government and I doubt very much they would ALLOW this kind of surgery for a person of 70, 80, let alone 90! Let us not forget the government treats us as a number, not a living, breathing, human! We will be considered a statistc even more than we already are.

So beware presidents bearing gifts....gifts that are not paid for and gifts that may end up costing a certain percentage of us our very lives.