Posted on 04/02/2010 6:12:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Kaiser Health News checked out some of the most common claims:
1. Comparative effectiveness research will lead to the rationing of care for the elderly.
Verdict? Not true.
2. Cuts in the Medicare Advantage plans under the health care overhaul "will cause massive disruption for the more than 10 million seniors" and many of them will lose coverage.
Verdict? Partially true.
3. The IRS will be hiring thousands of new agents to check that people have health insurance and people who don't will be sent to jail.
Verdict? Mostly not true.
4. When health care reform kicks in, consumers will have longer waits to see a primary care doctor.
Verdict? Partially true.
5. The new health law will end TRICARE and force military families to buy different insurance.
Verdict? Not true.
6. Federal government employees will be forced to switch their health insurance coverage and participate in the exchanges.
Verdict? Mostly not true.
7. Illegal immigrants will get free health care.
Verdict? Mostly not true.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
This only works for responsible people. I own a few rental properties. Many renters don't have any checking or savings accounts because the owe the IRS or someone a legal judgement. They refuse to put money into any account where it will be taken.
Except, as I understand it, it is not a “fine”, it is a “tax” and if you don’t pay the “tax” then you can go to jail. So yes, you can go to jail for not paying it.
Note how the “claims” are compound sentences:
ObamaCare will cause millions of elderly people to be starved and suffocated to death, and unicorns will fly out of Obama’s butt. Verdict: Partly true.
In Writing: Under ObamaCare, If You Don't Buy Health Insurance, You Could Go To Jail
7. Illegal immigrants will get free health care.
Verdict? Mostly not true.Only the ones that don’t know about it.
8. MSNBC? Verdict: Mostly not true.
But the law apparently explicitly states that the IRS can’t use their confiscatory powers to get the health care money. So while they can send you dunning letters telling you to pay up, if you ignore them they can’t throw you in jail or garnish your wages.
Of course, they CAN audit your tax returns, and how many people are going to ignore an official IRS letter about interest and penalties, even if they are told the IRS can’t force them to pay?
That is a story about one of the health care bills from back in september of 2009.
We should be discussing the one they actually PASSED, which doesn’t allow for jail time if you don’t pay the fine.
That's where people who can no longer afford to live outside of, are going to commit crimes in order to go .
Corruption eliminates the gov. ability to manage any program fairly and honestly.
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