Posted on 09/21/2010 4:02:58 AM PDT by iowamark
A highly partisan Democrat-dominated Congress passed President Obama's sweeping legislation in March to shift decision-making and authority to the government and fundamentally transform America's health care..
We already know that Mr. Obama and the Democrats are willing to sign laws that the majority of Americans oppose. And despite continued opposition from about 60 percent of Americans, the administration continues to defy the will of the people with warnings and threats to the private sector in advance of implementing the plan's big-government mandates, coverage decrees and price controls. In this waning phase of Democratic domination, what might we expect as last-gasp overreaches in health care?
Watch for an overt use of brute force by the federal government to eliminate the viability of private health insurance.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius already has confirmed that the exchanges, justified by the administration as a vehicle to increase consumer choice and lower prices by facilitating competition, will actually bar private insurers from participating unless prices are fixed at government-dictated rates...
Watch for the federal government to restrict doctors from practicing, or possibly even criminalize them, unless they accept patients with insurance paying government-defined rates for medical tests and treatments.
As more Americans are shifted into government insurance, prices for medical services will be forced lower and lower - indeed, the new health law is overtly configured to cut payments for Medicare services by 30 percent over the next three years; by 2019, payments for senior-citizen care will be even lower than Medicaid...
When Congress passed the health legislation plan that the president sought, it radically changed health care in the United States and audaciously imposed a strong-armed federal government onto perhaps the most personal of all segments of American life...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
A good preview of what will happen under Obamacare.
Congress controls the purse strings. Simply stop playing for it. He can issue all the rules he wants, doesn’t mean squat if the Congress refuses to authorize any funding for them.
Sounds like the beginnings of Venezuela happening here.
mean while “Health insurers drop coverage for children ahead of new rules”
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What to go Democrats...solve one issue and cause another! Typical of the left..creating more mayhem
At first I thought that approach might work. But what will happen is the leftists will make sure the lack of funding produces painful (deadly) consequences which will be carefully "spun" by the media.
Have you ever watched a local school board that didn't get the funding they want? The school board immediately enacts "cuts" that cause the maximum pain for parents. In that way they get what they want. The federal government will do the same thing...
Vote for the school budget or we kill the first grade bunny.
This is war. The Leftist machine know that. Time we start fighting back.
Remember, they can do anything between Nov 2nd and Jan 15th...vigilance and game plan must be in place to stop their mandates and exec orders.
Well with Biden it was intellectually vacant anyway ...
If the pubbies gain control of both houses, they should turn all the new IRS employees, marked for healthcare, to audit the government ITSELF and find every ounce of fat and corruption in the existing bureaucracy.
Step two is to fire at least 25% of the bureaucracy, preferably the most liberal/marxist 25%.
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