This is going to come from way out in left field as I don’t usually write about political goings on but with this recent ‘slap in the face’ of a Health Care Reform Bill that was rammed down our throats AND dealt with behind closed doors in order to get the necessary votes, I now believe we all were lied to by our sitting president when he ran for office. Where did the transparency go? I don’t know about that but the part where we heard “We Can Do It!” is evidently still in effect full force! It’s same ‘ol big gov’t. doing what it does best. Forcing garbage legislation down the throats of the very people who all yelled a resounding NO! to it.
This was copied with permission, from a friend. Read it and be very afraid.
Does no one see the ripple affect this will have?
1. You now have uncapped limits (good in theory, bad in this bill). The obvious move that the private insurance companies will make is to raise your premiums, thus costing you more money per month for health insurance (wasn’t the main problem is that insurance was too expensive in the first place?)
2. Your employer must provide this insurance and will have to deal with the rising costs of the premiums, what do you think they will do to recoup some of those losses???? Guess what, your future raises will suffer, your current salary may suffer.
3. This bill provides mandates that each state must adhere too when it comes to Medicare (which had $500 billion slashed from the budget) and will make the states pay for the short comings. Most states don’t know how much this will cost them, but Florida has estimated the cost at $1.6 BILLION dollars annually beginning in a few years. So what do you think most states will do to pay for this outrageous cost? They will raise taxes across the board, sales tax, state income tax, property tax, and any other miscellaneous taxes each state might already have. This still won’t cover the annual cost for most states, so they will have to slash money from the current budgets. Which one is always one of the first on the chopping block? Education (and lets hope the government doesn’t want to then run the education system, talk about an oxymoron)
4. You will have private insurance companies competing with the government. This is not good considering that the government can use debt financing (hurt our future) to keep their costs competitive while providing “better features”. If these costs are too competitive it will cost the insurance companies their customers, thus causing them to go into debt, which they cannot finance. They will eventually fold and all you will have left is government insurance which will then raise its rates to recoup the losses it took when competing with the private insurance companies.
So you will now be paying more in health insurance premiums, making less, and paying higher taxes in all phases at the state level. Paying more and making less, how is this good? We will be increasing the cost of living nation wide. Maybe we should have addressed the job problem first, then maybe the national debt. Fix this country before putting this burden on the states and the hard working middle class (state taxes, higher premiums, lower income) of this great nation.
This is why this particular bill is no good. They should have scrapped it and started over. Why did no one just think of auditing the current system and find out where wasteful spending is causing the premiums to be so high? Then address the problems that were found through a well thought out process, not rush it along because you want to pass a bill to satisfy your ego.
All of the above doesn’t even begin to cover the topic of additional costs for new medical centers, hospitals, equipment, etc. Not to mention the lack of general care physicians we already have with the current system. This lack of general care physicians will get much worse with the new bill. Seems our medical infrastructure was ignored in this bill (shocker, the government passing bills without considering our current infrastructure).
Here is a damn good question, why are we being taxed on investments, higher salaries, and the inevitable increased state taxes? This bill is going to need $900 some odd billion dollars over the next ten years. Why can’t the government just pay for it all up front? I mean apparently we had TRILLIONS of dollars lying around to bail out banks, Wall Street, and car manufacturers and we didn’t get all these taxes to go along with it. Where the hell did all that money come from? That was not drawn out over 10 years; those checks were cut in a matter of months.
We bailed out banks that were getting exactly what they deserved, but we can’t even provide our people with any of this money to help cover these new costs? We are leaving it up to the states to be the bad guys in all this, why?
Why were votes changed from a firm no to a yes after a visit from the President along with other congressional and cabinet members? Nice transparency, way to keep that campaign promise. Why would they not work together to agree on a bill instead of just passing the first one they come up with? This bill alienated an entire party and a percentage of the party that wrote it. The American public didn’t like it as well. Obviously it wasn’t popular, yet instead of starting over it was pushed through anyway.
“Something is rotten in the state Denmark.”
-Concerned American
If you think for a moment that none of this will occur, you must be naive. Get real! If this is the best we can expect from our elected officials, a bill that was rushed through and done behind closed doors, all in the name of getting it done? We’re ALL screwed.
Try this on for size first….what about your children? ALL of them! They’re the ones who will really be screwed on this bill if left intact. Their future depends on this farce of a bill being repealed before it’s too late.
Think about that! Let your voices be heard in the next election! Vote these idiots out of office before they do more harm.
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