Is Congress sure they want to pass this bill? Tea partiers in New York are clear.
Apparently, the more we know about Obama's health care reform bill, the more people are just saying no. According to Rasmussen’s weekly telephone poll, only 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats, the lowest level of support in nearly two dozen tracking polls since June.
Senators know the majority of Americans are against this massive government takeover of 1/6 of the economy, but still they voted to debate this bill. Nevada's own Harry Reid led the charge, oblivious to the mutinous voters waiting for him back home.
Most Americans agree something must be done to "fix" what ails our health care system. But is the answer this bill? The more we know about this bill, the more we should just say no. Why?
The simplest answer is the best answer: This bill won’t fix what's broken. A new report from the non-partisan and independent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid, debunks each of left’s health care reform promises. According to the- won't protect and secure the insurance plan you already have.
- won't provide quality, affordable options if you need insurance.
- won't reduce health care costs for families, businesses and government.
- won’t strengthen the financial health of Medicare.
So if this bill doesn't do what Congress promised it would do, what does it do that's so bad for America?
The bill expands Medicaid, the lousy government-run plan that already exists. Welcome to your new "public option." This bill simply increases the number of people allowed to go on Medicaid. Why is that so bad? Ask people who have Medicaid how hard it is to find a pediatrician who will take this low-paying, bargain-basement insurance. Ask parents in Reno, Nevada, who wait for hours in noisy, crowded public health dental clinics, because few private dentists take Medicaid. Sure, Medicaid covers braces, but no orthodontist in Reno will take these patients, because the government does not pay enough for orthodontists to stay in business. And if your kid falls off his bike and breaks an arm or leg, good luck finding a neurosurgeon who'll take Medicaid. The only one I could find in Reno is very glad he's about to retire.
The bill will put one-fifth of America on welfare. This bill will make millions more Americans dependent on the government to finance their health care. In addition to massively expanding Medicaid, the Feds will also provide a new medical subsidy program, paid for by Joe Q. Taxpayer. The bill will provide humongous taxpayer-funded subsidies to the middle class, subverting this once independent group into low-class, government dependency.
The bill will cause you to lose your private insurance coverage. Obama’s own Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently certified that the bill will cause millions of Americans to lose their existing employer-based coverage, agreeing with what many others have already concluded: this bill will ruin the health care insurance that 85% of Americans enjoy.
The federal government will take over and regulate the entire health insurance industry. The Senate health care bill will impose sweeping, complex new federal health insurance regulations that will create a one-size-fits-all federal health plan that will drive up (not down, as promised by the President) the cost of everyone’s health insurance premiums
The bill taxes employers, so kiss that raise or even your job goodbye. Employers will be required to provide all employees health care insurance mandated by the government, regardless of the company's ability to absorb this cost. Low-income workers and economic growth will suffer the most. Can
The bill fines YOU, or puts you in jail if you don't comply. The Senate bill requires all Americans to buy “government qualified” health insurance. If you don’t, you’ll be hit with new tax penalties and possibly, jail time. Government scholars and patriots alike wonder loudly if such a requirement is even constitutional. And if so, what will the government make us buy next?
Americans want health care reform, but is this the change we were looking for? Do we want our government taking over our health and thus, our lives? Ask the Dean of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Jeffrey Flier, who wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
"...the majority of our representatives may congratulate themselves on reducing the number of uninsured, while quietly understanding this can only be the first step of a multi-year process to more drastically change the organization and funding of health care in
Ominous words, indeed. Just say no.
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Comments
We DO want healthcare! You do not want healthcare because you have it!
Cuzisayso-
You can go to any hospital and get cared for without paying if you don't have the money. There is also Medicaid. You can also, gasp, go the Doctor's office and pay for your healthcare with your own money!
There is no need to destroy and rebuild the entire Healthcare system, we can offer coverage to those that need it, without doing this massive takeover.
scrap the crap
start the bill over from new
we need tort reform
we need competition -let the insurers sell across state lines. Get the government out of our lives
NO MORE TAXES
cuzisayso: You already have health care. All Americans and anyone who just happens to get sick/hurt while in the U.S. can walk into any ER in the country, and they will recieve health care, regardless of their ability to pay. What everyone doesn't have is health insurance. The Feds will make you get it, or they will fine you/imprison you. Read the article. This bill doesn't fix the problems.
This is clearly a opinion written by someone out-of-touch with the American people. First of all, anyone who has been paying attention knows this is not Obama's plan. Second, the "massive government takeover" language is right-wing, extremist propaganda. Third, there is no proof of claims.
The problems with the current "health care system" is it does not support health care in America. It has developed over the decades since 1945 when the health insurance industry was granted an anti-trust exemption. That means they were not obligated to compete, the basis tenant of Capitalism. They were instead granted the legal right to rape Americans. There is also some complication to inter-state competition. The proposed House Bill claims to address that in section 309 but allows insurance predators to set up shop in what ever state gives them the most favorable terms (probably Delaware, with the credit card predators) and doesn't protect the residents under the State law.
Another piece of extremist propaganda is the myth that people get free health care at the emergency room. ITS NOT FREE! The bills are so outrageous that even working people with insurance can not afford the co-pays and deductibles. Most of the medical bankruptcies are by people who have health insurance. www dot discuss.epluribusmedia.net/content/more-medical-bankruptcy-have-insurance-go-bankrupt. This is probably due to the fact hospitals do as little as possible for the uninsured. But they DO send a bill. I guarantee you of that. It is not "free".
The problem with the piece of toilet paper the House celebrated passing is 1) It does not truly open competition so 2) It does not control costs 3) It forces Americans to purchase something - just because they are alive. How unAmerican is that? 4) It does not provide for "general welfare" (health) of everyone 5) It is a Health Insurance Industry wet-dream, guaranteeing them uncapped profits for the foreseeable future.
The government isn't going to "take over" health insurance. They are attempting to be a player in the insurance game - because the "health" insurance industry isn't playing fair. This is more mythical propaganda designed to fool and scare the sheep.
While I agree with the author on some points, including the fact that the House Bill stinks, this article is an example of how instead of the masses coming together to create real change, extremist points-of-view alienate people, serving to maintain status quo.
It is very clear by reading this article that just about anyone can be a reporter for the Examiner. She is so far removed from the reality in Metro-Detroit that her article should not even be published, except as pure opinion.
tude... everyone has access to health care, and no one said it was free. Why should it be? I have to pay for it, shouldn't everyone else? You dispute my facts, but I have references, including Obama's own CMS. The bill doesn't fix what's wrong, plain and simple. And it DOES represent the beginning of a massive government takeover of health care. I'd believe the Dean of Harvard's School of Medicine over our President and you, who continue to spew the OFA's talking points, any day of the week.
GREAT ARTICLE! WAKE UP YOU LIBERAL COMMIES!
Great article Kelly, Liberals dont want to work for anything they want the nanny to give it to them. Nobody is entitled to Health Care, Welfare, Housing, Cars , Money. Government cannot do anything for you, they can only do things to you.
GREAT ARTICLE KELLY!
And...
for those of you who believe in the ultimate goodness and wisdom and efficiency of the federal government, the battle cry "healthcare reform" is obviously sending another one of those tingling sensations up your legs. And for those of you who believe in the ultimate goodness and wisdom and efficiency of the federal government, it is to be hoped that "healthcare reform" might provide a cure for whatever dysfunction of the central nervous system it is that keeps sending those tingling sensations up your legs.
Hmmm. I wonder. Will "healthcare reform" provide for frontal lobotomies? It would be ironic if it doesn't, seeing that Harry Reid, et al. want to give our entire healthcare system the equivalent of a frontal lobotomy.
The bill(s) in congress now are nothing more than takeovers. They are NOT designed to "reform" anything. The bills do NOTHING to lower costs, they will actually raise them. They do NOTHING to try and specifically ensure those that cannot get insurance now. There are all kinds of rediculous provisions in it that fine individuals great amounts of money for not "buying" insurance, jail time for refusal to buy, not allowing gun owners to buy insurance. THese are just a couple of examples.
If this plan is so great, why will comngress and President not sign up? They vote repeatedly to NOT subscribe themselves to this nonsense. And how can we afford this when our Nation is SO FAR in debt?? THis will kill the economy, and even more jobs.
Why doesn't congress enact true reform that contains tort reform, losens laws to allow for insurance companies to compete across state lines to open up competition, rewrite laws for pre-existing conditions, get rid of the miriad of federal and state mandate
Great article Kelly, keep up the good work of educating the masses. Lord knows the Government and the media won't do it.
You are spot on Kelly. This bill is a complete disaster!!!
Society can and does execute its own mandates; and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
KILL THE BILL!
Cuzisayso, you are correct. we DO want healthcare, but not at the extreme expense that HR3962 and HR3200 propose. Read the bill.
Here are 2 of many alternatives that the REps are proposing:
1) HSA, Health Savings Accounts. I'd explain what it is, but I'm limited on charachters, so google it, please.
2) TORT reform. This will drastically reduce the p front cost of our visits to the doctors.
How about lower taxes, so that we can pay for small visits to the doctor, like exams, or checkups, and save the Insurance for catastrophic care. But you wouldn't want that, now would you, Cuzisayso! You obviously do not want to be free...
Wow. How long did it take for someone to personally attack you as being "out of touch with the American people"??? They obviously don't know you!
Seeing as how Rasmussen Poll shows 56% oppose this bill, it appears that you are more in touch than that guy. A comment like that is certainly only "leftist propoganda".
I'm surprised he didn't call you a racist! hahahahaha And how are those lovable bi-racial kids of yours?
Keep fighting!
GREAT ARTICLE KELLY!
And...
for those of you who believe in the ultimate goodness and wisdom and efficiency of the federal government, the battle cry "healthcare reform" is obviously sending another one of those tingling sensations up your legs. And for those of you who believe in the ultimate goodness and wisdom and efficiency of the federal government, it is to be hoped that "healthcare reform" might provide a cure for whatever dysfunction of the central nervous system it is that keeps sending those tingling sensations up your legs.
Hmmm. I wonder. Will "healthcare reform" provide for frontal lobotomies? It would be ironic if it doesn't, seeing that Harry Reid, et al. want to give our entire healthcare system the equivalent of a frontal lobotomy.
What is truly needed is a new, non-profit, system of Healthcare for ALL - hey, like the very Healthcare our leaders and everyone in the United States Armed Forces enjoys! Now, THERE IS A GREAT IDEA!
Great article! Kill the Bill...that HC Bill is a disaster
There is no excuse for the FERAL (sp!) government violating the constraints of the enumerated powers of the U.S.Constitution.
This (HC) and the majority of BS legislation, which the current Congressional majority is pushing upon America, has no legal standing. Congress is nearly 100% attorneys, who ARE capable of reading the Constitution. They have sworn Oaths of Office, in which they have made a commitment to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic.
The Progressive agenda, to redistribute wealth, IS THEFT, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. Mandating any form of insurance is violation of the 13th Amendment (simplest example) by enacting slavery / involuntary servitude. The pre-Civil War Democrats would be so proud!
The United States IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, BUT A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. As such the CONSTITUTION is the LAW of the Land and the RIGHT(s) of one, supercedes the desires of ALL others.
Desires cannot be turned into "rights" by violation of unalienable rights.
BTW: What I want for my family, is affordable MEDICAL CARE.
I want to tell my doctor that s/he is at significantly reduced risk of litigation, when s/he takes care of us AND, in exchange my doctor can charge a reasonable fee for service.
Kill the Bill, it is total crap. No Tort reform, no peace.
GREAT ARTICLE! I'm so sick of the lies of the mindless zombies who are glad to lick DC's boots. You go girl!
Thank you for your courage to report the other view of healthcare.
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