The White House is scrambling to pass Health Care Reform Bills within the next few weeks because it doesn’t want the American public to have time to actually examine the contents or the costs. What’s Wrong With the Proposed Health Care Reform?
1) IT WILL COST TOO MUCH AND COVER TOO FEW
The projected cost of the Health Care Bill is more than $1 trillion dollars. That’s 1 THOUSAND BILLION DOLLARS or 1 MILLION MILLION DOLLARS. And you know that if they tell you it will cost $1 trillion dollars, it will end up costing $2 trillion dollars. The proposed Health Care Costs will only cover 15 million of the 43 million uninsured Americans.
The truth is that almost 50% (20 million) of the uninsured have enough money to get health insurance, but are young and single and choose not to buy health insurance. Another 30% (12 million are not Americans at all, but illegal aliens. That leaves only 20 million Americans 6.5% of the total population) that are truly without health insurance. These uninsured already receive free health care: $100 billion from Acess, Medicaid, etc, and $70 billion from hospitals and doctors who treat these patients for free.
2) WE WILL ALL END UP PAYING FOR IT
We already pay for the uninsured by higher insurance premiums charged to cover the extra costs associated wtih providing for the the uninsured that routinely use the emergency rooms for care.
Who’s going to pay the new plans? Senator Kennedy’s proposal, which he calls the Affordable Health Choices Act, proposes charging individuals up to 10% or more of their adjusted gross income for insurance coverage.
The House bill would mandate that all Americans and Employers obtain health insurance or pay a fine. Additionally, the House bill would tax individuals with adjusted gross incomes of $280,000 or more ($350,000 for couples) to raise money to pay for it. This number could easily be lowered dramatically as the health care reform costs increase over time. In the end, we will all pay for it because business owners will have to charge more for their goods and services to compensate for their added expense of paying for government run health care for their employees.
3) PRIVATE INSURANCE WILL NO LONGER BE AN OPTION
According to a report in the Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill contains a provision that makes individual private medical insurance illegal.
(Source: Editorial, “It’s Not An Option,” Investor’s Business Daily, July 15, 2009)
4) NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE IS BAD HEALTH CARE
The bigger the bureaucracy and the farther away from the doctor the treatment decision is made, the worse it is for the patient. Nationalized Health Care will mean you will likely never see the same doctor twice and you will wait longer in crowded medical clinics but have less time to spend with the doctor, or more likely the nurse practitioner.
Nationalized medicine will restrict your ability to see a specialist and will limit which tests and treatments your doctor will be allowed to prescribe. The bottom line is this: Nationalized Health Care is a government take-over of the U.S. Insurance industry and the Medical System, which will give politicians too much power, too much money, and too much responsibility that they should not have or can honestly and effectively manage.
5) MANAGED HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED HEALTH CARE
Nationalized health care is managed health care. President Obama has proposed a national database to determine the most cost-effective treatments in health care. Although this sounds like a good idea, it inevitably means that eventually bureaucrats, not doctors, will decide who gets what treatments and who doesn’t. What is “Prevention” and what is wasteful spending. Those over age 76 will likely not get life saving treatments or will be put on waiting lists for hip replacements, etc, behind younger patients.
6) IT WILL INCREASE ABORTIONS AT TAX PAYER EXPENSE
If either one of the two main healthcare reform bills are passed, it will mean more abortions at the taxpayers’ expense. The two primary bills – the Kennedy bill and the House Democratic leadership bill -both contain multiple provisions that would result in federally mandated insurance coverage of abortions on demand, which would result in massive federal subsidies for abortion and even the mandated creation of many new abortion clinics across the country. Its all part of President Obama’s Abortion Agenda…Continue…
7) IT WON’T FIX THE REAL PROBLEM WITH HEALTH CARE
The real problem with today’s health care is that it treats symptoms rather than the cause of disease. Our current medical system is based entirely on the treatment of disease with drugs or surgery, which are both extraordinarily expensive. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes account for 75 percent of all health care spending in America today. However, these diseases are mostly preventable by nutrition and lifestyle changes and that’s why it is vitally important that we focus reform efforts on prevention rather than rationing the current system of symptomatic treatment and crisis intervention of late stage disease.
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Don’t just take my word, click on this link to hear Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyle, of Arizona explain some healthy options that we could implement without a government take-over or higher taxes.
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