HOW OBAMACARE WILL ALIENATE AMERICANS

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TweetIT WILL GET SO BAD THAT THE NEW PRESIDENT AND NEW CONGRESS WILL CHANGE THIS INCREDIBLE DISASTER THAT THIS SCUM BAG HAS CAUSED.THIS WILL ONLY CRIPPLE THE ELDERLY AND CREATE MORE DEBT AND THAT IS WHY THIS BILL WILL CHANGE ASAP WHEN THE NEW "REPUBLICAN" ADMINISTRATION IS IN.





Obama’s health care bill, the poisoned Kool-Aid making its way through the Senate, will not confer any of its supposed benefits on Americans until 2013. But they will find themselves chafing at its restrictions and paying its taxes immediately after the law takes effect. Then, they will see no gain, but plenty of pain, for the next three years.

This odd juxtaposition of “suffer now, benefit later” is the byproduct of the Administration’s sleight of hand in specifying ten years worth of cuts and taxes in the legislation, but deferring its benefits for the first four years. By comparing six years of spending with ten years of taxing, it managed to appear deficit neutral under the rules of the Congressional Budget Office. In fact, the annual revenues fall far short of covering any single year’s worth of spending, adding to the deficit for each of the last six years over the next ten, but, viewing the decade as a whole, it appears deficit neutral.
Yet the political price is hardly neutral. Democrats who misguidedly vote for this monstrosity will face immediate political repercussions.
The harshest of these backlashes will come from the elderly who will suddenly visit their doctors and be told “no” when they ask for therapies or treatments. The rationing of medical care will start immediately on enactment and, one hopes, the outraged phone calls will start to descend on those whose votes enabled it.
The first “no” will hit the ten million elderly who now rely on Medicare Advantage to pay for the care Medicare itself does not cover. In a payoff to AARP, Obama gutted this program in his bill, ending over $100 billion in federal premium subsidies. These ten million voters will get the grim news that their premiums are going up and their benefits dropping early in 2010. The goal, of course, is to force them to drop Medicare Advantage and sign up, instead, for Medigap insurance — offered, not coincidentally, by the AARP — which provides less coverage at higher cost.
Young people without health insurance can expect to start writing $750 annual checks to Washington to pay the fines written into the bill. (And, after the Conference Committee finishes its work, the fines may be higher).
All Americans will soon find their insurance premiums rising as a result of the bill. The young, uninsured will not buy policies. Why should they? Why not just pay the $750 fines each year? Why pay between 2% and 10% of their household income before subsidies kick in? It makes no financial sense for anyone making more than $30,000 to pay for coverage. (And most of those under that threshold will be covered by Medicaid, not by private insurance).
There is no reason for the young to buy private insurance. The legislation requires that health insurers take all comers and not raise rates based on pre-existing conditions. So the young can get coverage when they need it, having only paid $750 per year beforehand.
The difference in cost will, of course, be borne by families throughout America who will see their health insurance premiums increase. President Obama and his Democratic rubber stamps may appreciate that they are not raising taxes on the middle class, just raising mandatory health insurance premiums, but the distinction is likely to be lost on swing voters.
From now on, any increase in health insurance premiums will become the political responsibility of the Obama Administration. As General Colin Powell once said of Iraq “You break it. You own it.” Since these premiums have been rising by an average of 10% per year for more than the past decade, this is a legacy most politicians would sensibly avoid if they could.

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TweetAs I said previously to Trip, why do people assume that the fine for not having insurance will remain at $750? That will be raised before the bill even becomes active I assure you. They needed to keep the amount low enough to obtain support for the bill. Once it is passed I would bet a fine of at least the cost of an average policy, and bet it will be much higher to convince people to simply pay the premiums. I am thinking around $10k sounds likely. Think about it, a person making $100k decides not to pay the 8% which would be $8k, then instead pays the $750 fine. However, if he decides to buy it when something catastrophic happens he will be covered by signing up and everyone else who pays their premiums will have covered the uninsured. The fine will have to be at a minimum the price of a policy for an average salary, but judging from other federal fines I would suspect it to be much higher. Trip is already planning to pay the fine and save the difference to pay out of his pocket in case he breaks his leg or something and eat the costs. Well, that is not going to work. The will raise the fine, and I believe eventually they will not allow anyone to pay cash for medical care. Either you have insurance or you don't get treatment. Once again, people trusting the government which is detrimental in itself.

Thomas Jefferson said "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." This is the truth.

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