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It's all over but the slow walking and sad singing. The old U.S. health care system is about to receive the last rites from the high priest of hope and change. All that remains are a few arrangements relating to the funeral, which is tentatively scheduled for some time in August. And, if you are like many Americans, you're thinking, "Good riddance." You've been convinced that what was once the best medical delivery system in the world has become too inefficient and expensive to be worth saving. You look eagerly forward to the new and improved health care model promised by President Obama and his allies in Congress.
If so, you're in for an unpleasant surprise. Much of what you have long taken for granted about health care and the way it should be delivered is about to change in ways that you definitely will not like. Your discomfiture will be particularly poignant if you happen to agree with the rest of the electorate about what exactly is wrong with U.S. health care. Public opinion surveys have consistently shown that most Americans consider access and cost to be the most important problems facing the system. Perversely, the primary changes Obamacare will bring to you and your family will be reduced access to care and significant increases in its cost.
As to the latter, the most noticeable pinch will come in the form of new taxes that you will pay to cover the direct costs of "reform." And, make no mistake about it, the costs of Obamacare promise to be stupendous. Not even the President's allies in Congress and the media bother to deny it. The New York Times , for example, admits that the tab is "expected to top $1 trillion." Obama claims this breathtaking price tag can be covered with improvements in health information technology, a renewed emphasis on prevention, payment cuts to hospitals, and comparative effectiveness research. No one with any sense believes him, least of all the CBO .
Thus, the only serious question is: Who will pony up the trillion bucks? For the solution to that mystery, you have only to look in the mirror. As Bloomberg reports , "Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases." And what sort of tax increases are they talking about? Charles Rangel, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, indicated that the Democrats are considering "a possible end to the income tax exclusion for employer-paid health benefits." In other words, if you're one of the millions of people who get health insurance through their jobs, your federal income taxes are about to go up.
"Wait a minute," you're thinking, "the President denounced John McCain for a similar proposal during last year's presidential election. He ran a campaign ad accusing McCain of 'taxing health care instead of fixing it.' Surely, the man isn't such a brazen hypocrite that he'd go along with this travesty now." Sorry to break this to you but, according to the Washington Post , he has already given his congressional allies the go-head. A couple of weeks ago, he told a group of Democratic senators "that he is willing to consider taxing employer-sponsored health benefits to help pay for a broad expansion of coverage."
Sadly, the increase in your tax burden is only the tip of the cost iceberg. Obamacare's inflationary effect will render health care in general more expensive. Its "efficiency" initiatives, for example, will add significant overhead costs to care providers which they will in turn be forced to pass on to you. We got a preview of this in Obama's "stimulus" package, which requires doctors and hospitals to buy expensive EHR software. The government will allegedly reimburse the cost, but an analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers concluded that "funding for health IT is a small carrot compared to the amount of resources it will take to deploy this technology." In other words, Uncle Sam pays the tip and leaves you with the bill.
Thus, you will be taxed for Obamacare up front and pay more for care at the point of service. Ironically, when you and the rest of the voters start complaining, the President and Congress will try to "control costs" by restricting your access to care. Presumably, when you think about "access," you don't visualize a Canadian-style waiting list. You want to see a doctor or get a hospital bed without significant delays. These luxuries will soon be a thing of the past. The President and Congress will not, of course, overtly restrict access to physicians and hospitals. They will, instead, impose a set of price controls so Draconian that many providers of care will be unable to survive financially. They simply won't be there to treat you.
This is already happening to patients covered by the government's existing health coverage programs. Government price controls have, for instance, created a primary care shortage for seniors. Medicare patients are having increasing difficulty getting appointments with primary care physicians because the program's Soviet-style payment system doesn't cover the cost of an office visit. As ABC News reports , "Primary care doctors from around the country have told ABC News that they are either opting out of treating Medicare patients, or are preparing to do so." In other words, Medicare restricts access by setting payments levels so low that doctors can't afford to treat the patients.
Such access-restricting tactics will also be employed by the "public option," a new government health plan that the President and congressional Democrats insist must be included in any health care legislation. The public option closely resembles Commonwealth Care, a taxpayer-subsidized coverage plan created by the state of Massachusetts in its 2006 universal coverage law. Commonwealth Care imposes strict price controls, paying so poorly that many physicians can't afford to treat patients covered under the program. According to a new study , "One in five [Massachusetts] adults said they had been told in the last 12 months that a doctor or clinic was not accepting new patients or would not see patients with their type of insurance."
And, if you're thinking you can maintain your current level of access by simply living with the tax increase and retaining your employer-based coverage, think again. It probably won't be available. According to the Lewin Group, a respected non-partisan policy research firm, the public option would price most private health carriers out of the market: "The number of people with private health insurance would decline by 119.1 million people. This would be a two-thirds reduction in the number of people with private coverage." Because your current insurer won't enjoy the taxpayer subsidy that allows the public plan to charge below-market premiums, it won't be able to compete. You'll be forced to go on the public plan because there won't be any other coverage choices.
You will not, however, enjoy those below-market premiums for long. Once the public plan has gained a monopoly in the health coverage market by pricing everyone else out of business, your out-of-pocket expenses will begin to creep up. The pretext for this will involve the need to defray ever-increasing costs, as if Obamacare had not been foisted on you based on the promise that it would control such costs. By then, you may be feeling a little nostalgic about that the old health care system, the one in which you were the final arbiter of your own medical fate. In the dim mists of memory, it may not seem as "inefficient" and "expensive" as it once did.
But the old system, like John Brown, will be moldering in the grave. Meanwhile, in addition to being saddled with those old, familiar health insurance premiums, you will be paying higher taxes and have considerably less access to care. This is how Obamacare will change your life.
The lines are drawn in the sand, the American people are alive and awake, well most anyway. Kick it and call names, Let the Freedom Ring
Having lived in third world crapholes but having the advantage of American Medical Care, I can honestly say that Obatty Health Care will change everything for America. Like he told the woman with the 100 yr old mother who is now 105 and needed a pacemaker 5 years ago, his plan would have said no pacemaker only pain meds and she would be dead.
He said this cold heartedly the way he opted for babies aborted who managed to survive the abortion to be put aside. He admitted that the Health Care for himself and all government would not be that of the general public. If not good enough for Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Obatty, Murtha and all why good enough for us????? Because we are peons in his eyes and we are only worth what he puts our worth to be.
His plan will cull. It will cull the old, infirm of body and mind and those who are not of use to the government, of course bypassing the government fermenting aged crocks who are exempt from the plan.
It will be the majority of peons who will be denied the help they need while Obatty, his big momma, his children, family, friends continue to have the best.
This has been tried before and remember the outcome?????
Off with their heads for Antoinette and her King and many others. Off with this bunch of jackasses and that is an insult to the fine animals called jackass.
Time to take down the tents and clean out the cages.
Happy New Year To All
We Can Win on Healthcare
Few if any political proposals in our lifetime will impact our lives in such a personal way as the government takeover of health care sought by the President and Democrats in Washington. If health care reform is taken down the wrong path, it will end in nothing short of disaster. This is a make-or-break moment for Americans and the history of our great nation. And it is a battle we can win.Two paths for health care reform are possible. One preserves and bolsters the ability for patients to control their own health care and make medical decisions independently with their doctors. The other leads to a government takeover of the health care industry that will permanently place Washington between you and the care you seek. As a physician, I have always fought for patient-centered health care reform that promotes six principles of care: accessibility, affordability, quality, choices, innovation, and responsiveness. Surely none of these principles are improved by greater involvement of the federal government. Unfortunately, Democrats in charge have largely (and predictably) ignored the ideas of Republicans and are marching forward with a government-centered health care plan. One of the most basic precepts of medicine is that you cannot effectively treat the problem until you get the diagnosis right. Yet Democrats have terribly misdiagnosed the disease in American health care. As with nearly everything, they have decided the problem in our health care delivery system is a shortage of government intervention. Having personally navigated the federal health care system of our first “public option” -- Medicare -- I can tell you firsthand that the government only distances patients from access to the best care. Restrictive coverage rules, endless bureaucratic delays, and inadequate financing structures leave patients without the choices we should expect in a 21st century health care system.The real problem with American health care is that too many patients have a third-party in between them and their care, be it a Washington bureaucrat, an employer, or an unresponsive insurer. Just as the pressure of competition can empower a consumer, our goal must be to put patients in charge of their health care so that insurers are accountable to them, not the government or another third-party. The President’s government-run plan will not fix this problem; rather, it will cement it by permanently making Washington the all-powerful middle man in the delivery of medical services. The Democrats’ taxpayer-subsidized plan will push private insurance providers out of business and catch millions of Americans in its net. According to a new estimate, 114 million Americans who currently carry personal, private health insurance will be forced onto the government plan. As the experience of many nations around the world has proven, a government-run system will ration care. Medical decisions that should be made by patients in consultation with their doctors will instead be made by unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington. People who have never treated a patient in their lives will decide the procedures to which you should have access. Vital treatments will be delayed or even denied.And make no mistake: there will be no turning back, no reversing the government intrusion that Democrats desire. Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97% of the market share. This new government-run health care plan will permanently swallow up the personal, private care that so many Americans enjoy. The issue and threat to American medicine is deadly serious.Yet, there remains hope. We can win this debate. Just like fifteen years ago, Americans reject what the President and his allies are promoting. A recent Washington Post poll showed that only 37% of Americans, informed of its effects, support the President’s government-run plan.Democrats hold sizable majorities in both chambers of Congress, but what makes this nation so great remains true: ultimately the people’s voice carries the most weight. We can succeed. We can stand up for patient-centered health care and send the President’s fatally flawed idea to the ash heap of history. It will not happen, however, without your help.It is my hope that you will recognize the seriousness of the threat to the care you, your family, and generations of Americans will receive. And what’s more, I hope that you will ask, “What can I do?” The conservative movement is only as powerful as its ability to affect the direction of our nation for the better. We have proven ourselves time and again, but this must be our moment. As Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, I invite you to engage in this historic debate. All representatives and senators must know that America does not seek a government takeover of health care. In our communities and in Washington, conservatives must speak out. Speak to your family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, even strangers. Online and in person. Tell them that we support a health care system which puts patients, not bureaucrats, in charge. Write, call, email, blog. Fight. Everyday. We can win this. In fact, we must win this fight. And when we do, I hope you will feel the accomplishment of having fought right along side us for the advancement of American health care and freedom.
Hurt me once Shame on you! Hurt me twice Shame on me! "GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS"
THERE ARE (5) U -TUPE LINKS BELOW, VERY IMPORTANT ONES, THEY SHOW THAT THERE IS PROOF THAT OBAMA IS NOT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, PLEASE TAKE THE TIME AND JUST CLICK ON EACH ONE AT A TIME, PLEASE BE SURE YOU HIGHLIGHT FIRST, AND ALSO PUT KEEP AS NEW , YOU CAN RETRIVE FROM OLD FOLDER.
Well here is the link guys from Kenya that states he is not an American citizen........in fact several videos showing it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0riQMj1BvwM&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7BLOcpceRY&feature=related
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He has some good plans for health care.
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The law works but the system needs changed, We all abide by the law but sometime it failes us. The same with the goverment. God bless the USA, Brign our troops HOME safely, To the men who did not get the credit they deserve, MAY GOD WATCH OVER OUR SERVICE MEN.
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