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Just before reading your blog account on the health care insurance industry, I heard a very pointed attack on "socialized medicine" on a local conservative leaning radio station. An Arizona state representative has pushed through legislation to help "protect choice" and specifically counter any National Health Care plan operating in this state. The representative claims she has no ties to the insurance or health care industries, and that it is a proactive move to prevent Arizonans from suffering the harm of a Nationalized health care system, which she claims is a huge failure in Canada. She cited examples of people having to unreasonably "wait' for care in Canada, and other Canadians "flocking" to the US for care.

This past Monday, the Arizona State Senate approved the Health Care Freedom Act (HCR2014). This will put a proposal on the 2010 ballot which would constitutionally override any law, rule or regulation that requires individuals or employers to participate in any particular health care system.

Using the usual fear tactics of "socialized" medicine, and adding a Tenth Amendment state's rights argument into the mix, Arizona may have the issue on the ballot for public approval so that our less fortunate citizens also will not need to suffer through nationalized health care (They can just go without any care.)

Thank you Mr. Potter for standing up for what is right and honorable and helping expose the wrongs in our current for-profit medical care insurance system. The only "choice" available now, and as proposed by the right, is for those people with the money to go wherever they want ; to "choose." The rest of us must happy with their delayed or denied insurance claims, or go bankrupt. Nice choice.