I see this slipping away, as the thin edge of the wedge of socialism is thrust upon us in the form of a health care package that it appears no one has read, has very little that truly will lower health care costs and will without doubt increase spending. Has the U.S. government ever introduced an entitlement that met its spending and cost goals?

So, I can only suspect that the purpose of this big rush to pass a health care bill is to move the country toward a European-style social democracy. We have fought to escape this form of serfdom through high taxation. It just isn't America, and we are truly different and that difference has made us successful.

We are losing our country. Surely we need health care reform, but this may be too high a price to pay and should not be forced on the American people without due process, by a progressive/liberal congress that has no bipartisan support.

Jim Parker
Warren

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