Keep Control of Your Health Care

The Congress wants to take control of your health just like it already has control of your retirement. If you only have Social Security to look forward to in your retirement, you are in a precarious position. You do not own your Social Security plan, the Congress does. Similarly, if you allow the Congress to own your health care plan, you will be in an equally bad situation.

Whoever owns your plan can make whatever changes whenever they choose. As with Social Security, the Congress changed the retirement age to 67 a few years ago and now threatens to move it even higher because the Social Security system is now hemorrhaging and soon will be bankrupt. The Congress can also change the amount of your benefits whenever it chooses. Even though you paid into the system while you were working, your benefits are not guaranteed. You must not now allow the Congress to control your health care in the same way.

Study the plans that are being proposed and if this requirement is being ignored, let your Senators and Representatives know immediately. More on this next time.