Posted on 10/21/2012 5:16:20 PM PDT by FreeKeys
Okay, let's see if we got this straight ... Now that the Supreme Court has upheld most of Obamacare we're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, which purportedly covers 10 to 30 million more people without adding a single new doctor (even causing established doctors to quit), but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents to make sure you have enough health insurance (and fine you and audit you if you don't), more than 180 new government agencies including 33 new government committees to make decisions for us and our doctor, and a militarized civilian "ready reserve corps", all to be staffed, of course, by thousands of additional overpaid government employees who can't be fired, and unionize all 21 million healthcare workers in the country, all authorized by a 2,700 page bill written by a congressional committee whose chairman at the time says he doesn't understand it, (now with more than 12,000 pages of additional regulations -- so far -- still pouring out of HHS), passed by the Democrats in Congress who didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes ... Is Obamacare the runaway winner of the "America's Worst Idea" contest, or what?
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Now, this act has multiple "side effects" according to this report by two of the doctors in the Senate, an act which establishes permanent uncertainty about more than 1,000 questions, including "What constitutes a medical expense?" by authorizing the HHS Secretary to suddenly change the answers to them by arbitrary snap decision at any time, with funding administered by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes but will make sure we pay ours, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect (but RATIONING has already started), which forces religious institutions to "pay for health insurance that covers sterilization, contraceptives and abortions" against their will, which takes hundreds of billions away from Medicare, raises the armed forces members' premiums on Tricare, and then imposes more than 20 new taxes, 12 of which hit those who earn LESS than $200,000 and most of which kick in after the 2012 elections (some of which deliberately hamper our best medical device innovators -- and cost 45,000 jobs in that industry alone, and If you sell your house after 2012 you'll pay a new 3.8% sales tax on it, $7,600 on a $200K home)...
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And yet this plan was scored by a non-partisan Congressional Budget Office that says it will add another TRILLION dollars to the national debt anyway, cause the loss of 800,000 jobs and could result in 20 million people losing their employer-sponsored heath insurance coverage despite Obama's promises, and while Obama promised that families would pay $2500 a year LESS for health insurance, THEY NOW PAY $3000 MORE, and now the President has given hundreds of waivers to organizations he favors so they can exempt themselves from this scheme, which punishes hospitals for re-admitting Medicare patients "too soon" and deliberately ignores the desperate needs for tort reform, for the ability of individuals to deduct premiums from income taxes as employers can, for the ability to choose catastrophic insurance only, for the ability to buy insurance across state lines, all the other real causes of the health care cost explosion and the fact that there's no such thing as a "right" to the services of other human beings....
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All of this is based on the questionable premise that politicians are more honorable than doctors, get to order them around and write rules for how they run their practices while using government agencies and bureaus to reward friends and punish (deny care to?) opponents, and all this is to be overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese and an administrator chosen by the president who called for the rationing (and who says "I love it" about the British Nationalized Health Service in which 25,000 cancer patients die every year while still on waiting lists), and financed by a government that is already broke and has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, is that right? Are we going to re-elect Democrats knowing full well that THEY WILL VOTE AGAINST REPEAL? And even if the Congress and a new president can repeal most or all of it, Obama, Hillary and their gang of Democrat control freaks are determined to re-enact every bit of Obamacare piece-by-piece, sooner or later, after all? What's the matter with them, anyway?
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OUTSTANDING post, FreeKeys! Thanks. BUMP-TO-THE-TRUTH!
No, but it might come in handy some day...
Thank you, sir.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of the government agencies your mom referred to is performing a function that can very well be done by private entities (and usually at precisely one-half the cost), without the backup of guns, jails and nasty control-freak personalisties, — just lawsuit potentials. Most prominently, Underwriters Laboratories can (and does) do all the consumer protection anyone needs — WITHOUT politicians’ interference as happens with the FDA, the EPA, etc., etc. etc. And Heaven knows the Post Office is obsolete...
I'll pass that along to the email group ((You'll get full credit of course) no cash, sorry!) FR to get a hat tip as well since we got dissed as well.
“and If you sell your house after 2012 you’ll pay a new 3.8% sales tax on it”
I missed that. Is it true? How can that be constitutional? (Not that it seems to matter.) Are the states all arm-twisted into doing it? Isn’t federal only allowed to tax income or in a manner apportioned among the states.
Thanks for the ping!
It’s a medicare surcharge that is being expanded to include ununearned income. It starts to kick in for AGI above 200k, 250k for married couples filing jointly.
Which Closet, The Lenin Closet?
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