Bob McCarty Writes

During an interview prior to the health care town hall meeting hosted by U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) this morning in St. Charles, Mo., I spoke with Joe DeVincent, a government retiree from nearby Wentzville, about the prospects of government-run health care (a.k.a., “ObamaCare”).  He expressed deep reservations about ObamaCare based, in part, on his own daughter’s experience as the wife of a Canadian citizen living north of the border.

“She doesn’t like it at all,” he said.  “You can’t see doctors when you want to see doctors.  The few doctors that are even practicing there, their business is just so full…

“One time, my wife and I went with her to see her primary care physician.  She had an appointment, and it took three hours to get in.  The waiting room was just so jammed, because nobody one can see doctors there.

“The doctors only work until they’ve made a certain amount of money.  When they make that amount of money, they don’t get paid anymore,” he continued.   “We definitely don’t need this system in the United States.”

The problem is so bad, he said, that his daughter has been forced to come to the United States on more than one occasion.

A fix, he said, would be new legislation that gave everyone the same coverage.

“If they want to put a health plan in, make it everybody, including Congressmen, senators, the president, everybody falls in that plan.  Then, they’ll put one in there that’ll work.”

Asked if he thought it would ever happen, he was doubtful.

“It’ll never happen.  They’re gonna take care of themselves and, if this goes in, we’re gonna suffer.”

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