HEALTH CARE: DO WE HAVE TIME IN THIS "NATIONAL EMERGENCY" TO DISCUSS THESE QUESTIONS?

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1. Is everyone entitled to the same quality and degree of health care, regardless of financial position?
2. Are good providers entitled to make more than bad ones?
3. Is every American entitled to some degree of health care?
4. Are illegal aliens entitled to free health care at our expense?
5. Where will the providers come from?
6. Is there truth to the allegation that government run health care will make matters worse?
7. If there are inefficiencies in Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance, why not create a task force to investigate and cure those inefficiencies?
8. Why not allow foreign corporations to sell pharmaceuticals in this country if they meet FDC standards?
9. How can we reduce administrative costs and get more money to the recipient's health care?
10. If there is so much waste in Medicare, Medicaid, Amtrack, USPO, and other federally operated programs, why do we think things will be different with nationalized health care?
11. Why are other countries with nationalized/socialized health care systems now moving toward privatized medicine such as we have in the United States?
12. Just because we spend more in health care dollars per patient than other countries, does that mean our system is bad?
13. Is it true that we will be required to have chip implants in order to receive health care?
14. If a health insurance company goes "belly up" because it cannot compete with the government run system, will we be obligated to bail them out? To what limits?
15. Who will make the decision as to what health care we can get? Under what criteria?
16. Is it true that we will no longer be able to claim tax deductions for medical premiums we pay or our out-of-pocket medical expenses we pay to providers we choose?
17. Who will cover the cost of nationalized health care and for how much per wage earner?
18. If a practitioner, employed by the Federal government, makes a negligent and tragic mistake that causes a loss of life, who do we sue? Or, can we sue?
19. If we disagree with the diagnosis of a federal doctor and want a second opinion, what are our options?
20. If a doctor refuses treatment in a particular case, such as later-term abortion, can he be sent to prison?

Those are MY AMERICAN QUESTIONS, respectfully submitted.