What A Surprise: Turns Out Obamacare Is Worse Than We Even Thought
Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 3:21PM This from the Washington Examiner:
Six months ago, President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rammed Obamacare down the throats of an unwilling American public. Half a year removed from the unprecedented legislative chicanery and backroom dealing that characterized the bill's passage, we know much more about the bill than we did then. A few of the revelations:
» Obamacare won't decrease health care costs for the government. According to Medicare's actuary, it will increase costs. The same is likely to happen for privately funded health care.
» As written, Obamacare covers elective abortions, contrary to Obama's promise that it wouldn't. This means that tax dollars will be used to pay for a procedure millions of Americans across the political spectrum view as immoral. Supposedly, the Department of Health and Human Services will bar abortion coverage with new regulations but these will likely be tied up for years in litigation, and in the end may not survive the court challenge.
» Obamacare won't allow employees or most small businesses to keep the coverage they have and like. By Obama's estimates, as many as 69 percent of employees, 80 percent of small businesses, and 64 percent of large businesses will be forced to change coverage, probably to more expensive plans.
» Obamacare will increase insurance premiums -- in some places, it already has. Insurers, suddenly forced to cover clients' children until age 26, have little choice but to raise premiums, and they attribute to Obamacare's mandates a 1 to 9 percent increase. Obama's only method of preventing massive rate increases so far has been to threaten insurers.
» Obamacare will force seasonal employers -- especially the ski and amusement park industries -- to pay huge fines, cut hours, or lay off employees.
» Obamacare forces states to guarantee not only payment but also treatment for indigent Medicaid patients. With many doctors now refusing to take Medicaid (because they lose money doing so), cash-strapped states could be sued and ordered to increase reimbursement rates beyond their means.
» Obamacare imposes a huge nonmedical tax compliance burden on small business. It will require them to mail IRS 1099 tax forms to every vendor from whom they make purchases of more than $600 in a year, with duplicate forms going to the Internal Revenue Service. Like so much else in the 2,500-page bill, our senators and representatives were apparently unaware of this when they passed the measure.
» Obamacare allows the IRS to confiscate part or all of your tax refund if you do not purchase a qualified insurance plan. The bill funds 16,000 new IRS agents to make sure Americans stay in line.
If you wonder why so many American voters are angry, and no longer give Obama the benefit of the doubt on a variety of issues, you need look no further than Obamacare, whose birthday gift to America might just be a GOP congressional majority.
Reader Comments (2)
But the MSM and the talking heads on TV think Obama just hasn't done a good enough job of selling his healthcare legislation. Translation: Us knuckle draggers out here in flyover country aren't sophisticated and nuanced enought to know what's good for us, we're blinded by our racism, our public university education, and being hypnotized by Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, etc.
Hey Harry Smith, George Stephanopolos, everybody at MSNBC and CNN.........read this article and if you still don't understand why 70% of the electorate wants the healthcare abomination rolled back, then come spend about an hour on a barstool with Herb. I'll set you straight. Better yet, how about we take you away from Manhattan, take away your money and credit cards, and make you live on $40K for a year somewhere in the Midwest. Then let me hear your BS you do-nothing, commie bastads!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your talking for me Herb, and i will join you anyday on a barstool to talk with these
morons in the media, .but i can't say there would be that much talking going on....