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healthcare reform and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

Dear Mr. Brockert,   Thank you for your letter regarding healthcare reform and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).    Although it's far from perfect, I truly do believe we have the finest healthcare system in the world.   We need to preserve what works in our system and work to improve what does not.  Unfortunately, the new healthcare law does neither.  It is designed to lead to a government takeover of our entire healthcare system (1/6 of our entire economy).   I have no faith that the government has any capability of doing that effectively or efficiently.  If this law is fully implemented, it will result in rationing, lower the quality of care, and dramatically decrease medical innovation.  That is the inevitable result of government run, socialized medicine.   Unfortunately, the damage to the quality of our healthcare is only half the problem.   This law will also lead to tri...