health care reform
There are so many angles on the Health Care Option debate it is hard to decipher what is or is not in the bill. 2 Things I know for sure
1. The public option is not free. If you listen to the average American in the street on this topic, many believe if they get the public option then their health care will be free. That is so far from the truth it is scary. Nothing and I mean nothing from the government is free unless you have lived your entire life dependent on the dole. Congress asks pollsters to pose the question like this,”If the government gets the health care option passed and it meant to you that your premiums would go down dramatically, or you could possibly qualify for free health care, would you vote for the option? “Yeah, I mean Hell Yeah” is the response you would get from many. No wonder you see the numbers increasing for a health care option!!
2. The health care the government is offering is free too many. In every proposal the government will be subsidizing many who can’t afford health care for one reason or another. In other words, those Americans that are paying health premiums, there will be a built in amount called an overage, that goes beyond the enforcement of the premium and will go to a government fund that will use the overage to subsidize those who can’t afford health care which is about twelve million people by the government’s count. There will also be an overage in each premium to fund the hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats that it will take to run this behemoth.
From day 1 this health care plan will be in the red and will stay in the red regardless of what congressional leaders say. Medicare is in the red today to the tune of about 60 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities that are coming down the pike that will have to be met. In other words if the government had to fund the liabilites today, the dollars would not be there (wait a minute, I forgot, we are bankrupt).
The congressional leaders like to say, “why is everybody griping, this health care option is just like our”successful” medicare program that has been in place for retirees.” Taxpayers know Medicare is being defrauded by $50-$60 Billions dollars a year. Congress says that they can stop that with more oversite, and use the money that is being wasted or lost to criminals, to help finance the public health care bill. If that is true, why doesn’t the government first prove to the taxpayers that they can stop the fraud NOW and maybe we will listen to your pitch later, when you have this hole in the ship fixed.
Another frightening reality, if this bill is implemented, it will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs in the insurance industry over the next few years, and many caregivers will leave the medical profession when their salaries are compromised by lower payments dictated by the government bureaucrats with no competition in the market place(wait a minute, is that not a monopoly?”. With fewer caregivers in the profession, the wait for care will explode across the landscape of this country. Citizens will then understand that they have been snookered again by their government.
I know this is cynical on my part but there is nothing on the horizon in every facet of life here in the US that is positive. We have both houses of Congress and a President that have taken situations in this country and turned them into crises. With that being said, Rahm Emanuel said before Obama was inaugurated “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
What that simply means is, this present administration can turn a campfire into a forest fire that will give the government more power to put out the fire, but realize after the fact that the water bill has not been paid.
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- Public Option’s Rotten Replacements
- Democrats are Beside Themselves with the Obama Administration, Enough Anger to go Around
- Government Option in Health Already a Miserable Failure
- Obama’s New Health Care System Flow Chart [left wing lunacy]
- Healthcare Radicals Bank on Public Ignorance and Gullibility