Most of the legislation proposed in the U.S. Congress is supposed to “solve” problems for our people. Unfortunately, the current sweeping socialized government medical care plans being proposed in Congress threaten to create big, new problems. The proposed legislation might justly be called the “trillion-dollar terror.” Nobody really knows how vastly expanded government medicine would work — but nearly everybody knows there would some kind of new trillion-dollar-plus cost, creating problems rather than solving them. Where would the “trillion dollars-plus” come from? Would personal “choice” in doctors, hospitals and prescriptions be denied or reduced? Would there be enough doctors, nurses and hospitals to serve those who now have insurance plus the reported 47 million people who now are without medical insurance but would be covered? Would the quality of care be reduced? Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., had a significant warning for all Americans when he spoke at the Chattanooga Rotary Club this week about the several complex medical bills that currently are occupying the spotlight in Congress — and the concerns of a great many of our people. Rep. Cooper noted that huge cost is involved, and would increase. He said the upward costs could eventually take such a huge part of our people’s wealth that medical care could crowd out other things we expect our government to do. Chattanooga’s Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., who is campaigning for governor across Tennessee, said he’s finding great concern among our people. “I think 70 percent of the people in the country are worried this new proposal will put at risk their current health care and they’re afraid.” The challenge is twofold: To assure our people get the health care we need — but avoid a ruinous cost. No one in Congress, or out, really seems to know all of the details and dangers of the sweeping bills for ObamaCare that liberal Democrats are rushing in Congress. But fortunately, a large number of Americans have come to understand that they would be left with less choice and more cost. “Incidentally,” there is, of course, nothing in the Constitution of the United States that gives the federal government either the responsibility or the power to dominate and dictate our medical care. We once had totally personal relationships with our doctors, hospitals and prescriptions — just as we had personal choice and responsibility for our food, clothing and homes. But as medical care advanced, costs increased. That’s when it became wise for our people to have personal insurance to assure care and avoid catastrophic costs. Then came the shift from individual responsibility to employer contributions for our health insurance. And now government has entered the picture with Medicare and Medicaid — which have grown tremendously in cost. That should be warning enough against increasing socialized government medicine. It threatens to create both medical and financial problems the like of which we have not yet seen.