Let me explain… Obama stated that the point behind the health care plan was to cut the costs of the health care system. But recent reports by various groups and agencies, including the C.B.O. (Congressional Budget Office), state that, apparently, this will cost the government $115 BILLION (with a B) more than was originally projected.
(the original numbers showing that although this will initially cost 1.5 Trillion but it was going to be offset to break even in a decade? Nope. We will be at least 115 BILLION dollars in the hole.)
Also, about a third of the current providers for government insurance (AKA Doctors taking medicare etc…) will only be able to break even on costs, if that, under the new payment plans,. This means they cannot stay in business. Which means lower coverage, and speaking of lower coverage… In order to make the numbers look good to begin with the government had to cut the Medicare plus plans that actually help people because Medicare alone doesn’t.
Out of the uninsured people, whom this is supposed to help, approximately $33 Billion will be spent by them, per year!, to pay the fees and charges because the uninsured fee will be less than a private individual health care plan AND they will still be uninsured, And businesses will pay out about $70 to 80 Billion dollars more, same way, Which means they will have to get rid of employees in order to break even and again that will be without increasing coverage for any one at all.
“But look at all the good it does!”
(a) “Now a child cannot lose insurance just for turning 18 they are still covered.”
Insurance Companies have admitted that now if you add a child to an existing policy they are going to have to charge you so much more on your policy that it would be cheaper to just go out and buy the child their own policy.
(b) “But all those 30 million uninsured Americans will now have coverage.”
As pointed out already. No they won’t because, surprise, surprise they STILL cannot afford the health care policies. Wow imagine that! The government plan does NOTHING to actually lower any costs, so all those who couldn’t afford health insurance before? Well they STILL can’t! so no insurance for them.
(c ) “In the end it lowers costs, Obama said so.”
As already shown it will not lower costs it only lowers coverage. There will be less doctors because they are getting paid less, and it will cost more in the long run because as I have pointed out before you cannot pay for more people and have it cost less. If that was the way it worked then I would be going out to eat all the time because all I have to do is pay for everyone in the restaurant and I will be able to afford it.
Think about it people use your brains.
Now what I do not understand is how anyone can think that this bill is a good idea?
We have NO benefits from this until 2012 but we are paying for it now and yet even when it kicks in it will be a failure of spending.
What proof do I have about businesses having to increase their spending by too much?
Immediately after this bill was passed several companies including AT&T and Verizon reported to their shareholders that they were going to have losses this fiscal year. Losses they were not reporting until this bill was enacted, indeed they made no bones about it; this was a direct result of the health care bill put into place by congress.
Now a certain Government type person (congressman Henry Waxman), was livid that they were doing this “you are being anti government, how dare you make such statements, you are making this up, we are going to call you on the carpet and you are going to have to explain yourselves to this congress.” and indeed Mr. Waxman went to the trouble to set a time and date for the companies in question to come in front of a congressional hearing. Oddly enough a few days later that meeting was canceled. Apparently Mr. Waxman found out that…
(a) The companies were reporting REAL losses due to the bill, not made up numbers.
(b) The companies did not announce publicly to give the government a black eye. (that was a side benefit)
No apparently it is the law that in order to avoid another scandal ala Enron, businesses are required by law to make public all losses expected
( c) If Mr. Waxman were to pursue such a course it would only serve to make MORE public the fact that this health care bill was an unmitigated disaster.
So there you go. This November let’s send our message and get rid of these idiots in our government… before we end up like Greece and we all are doomed.
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