Posted on 07/17/2009 5:58:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
Health Reform: Many extravagant claims have been made on behalf of the various health care "reforms" now emerging from Congress and the White House. But on closer inspection, virtually all prove to be false.
On Friday, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a bill that would radically change our current system and expand coverage for the uninsured. The action came a day after the head of the Congressional Budget Office said none of the plans under review would slow health care spending. None of them.
Still, lawmakers and the White House press on, relying on GOP weakness in the House and a new veto-proof majority in the Senate. They're also relying on a lack of awareness that claims made on behalf of national health care may be mostly false. Among them:
• America has a health care crisis.
No, we don't. Forty-seven million people lack insurance. Of the remaining 85% of the population, or 258 million people, polls show high satisfaction with the current coverage. Indeed, a 2006 poll by ABC News, the Kaiser Family Foundation and USA Today found 89% of Americans were happy with their own health care.
As for the estimated 47 million not covered by health insurance, 20 million can afford to buy it, according to a study by former CBO Director June O'Neill. Most of the other 27 million are single and under 35, with as many as a third illegal aliens.
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In short, as par with liberal scams, schemes, and untruths, all Americans will not be covered by healthcare...
And, of course, these despicable Congress critters - as the true elitists they are - refuse to allow amendments to the bills that prescribe their own medicine for their own healthcare needs. They will get SUPER healthcare paid for by taxpayers while the rest of us will be in rationed care.
STOP THE MADNESS, CONGRESS.
Vote every one of these scumballs who votes for this bill out of office in 2010 and 2012
YES INDEED.....but then, I am not Acorn and cannot vote but once.....
....And virtually all of them get their bills paid through various exissting programs. Not without some hassles, not without some extra paperwork, but it gets covered.
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