Posted on 09/02/2010 2:13:50 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Your cartoon says it all. Exactly right!
“There are no positives to “Obamacare”. It’s a power grab and that’s all it is. It has nothing to do with healthcare.”
Exactly. It nothing more and nothing less than that.
Evil incompetent bastards that pass something they haven’t even read need to be fired, tarred and feathered, and sent packing.
Agree with both of you. I don’t care if I would get a pony and a huge pot full of gold under obamacare : The personal mandate is such an egregious offense gainst personal freedom and individual rights that any good (if there IS any)via obamacare is completely negated by its existence.
My daughter worked for Rand Corp. She was involved in end-of-life issues. She reported to the wife of Americans United for Separation of Church and State”s Rev Barry Lynn.
• Th e estimated $753 billion cumulative increase in personal health spending between 2010 and 2019 represents an increase of 3.3% over the status quo projection.
• Between 2010 and 2019, cumulative federal spending on subsidies for those who obtain insurance through the Exchange would be $445 billion. Approximately 53% of the 25 million people purchasing insurance through the Exchange in 2019 would receive a federal subsidy.
• Medicaid spending is projected to increase by $559 billion between 2010 and 2019, a 21% increase over the projected trend in the status quo.
• Penalty payments for those not complying with the mandates would total $75 billion from individuals and $108 billion from employers between 2013 and 2019.
• We project that, in 2019, average insurance premiums in the large group (employer) market will be at least 2% lower than projected in the status quo.
• We project some increase in insurance premiums for the most common nongroup policies. The increase is higher in the first few years after the reform (8%) and becomes negligible by 2019, with an average increase over the whole period of about 4%. When the market stabilizes (2016–2019), the premiums will be about 2% higher than would have been observed in the nongroup market without the policy change. The presence of subsidies will further soften the effect of this increase on the population.
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