Top 10 reasons why the democrats health plan is bad for America.
1. Millions Will Lose Their Current Insurance. Period. End of Story: President Obama wants Americans to believe they can keep their insurance if they like, but research from the government, private research firms, and think tanks show this is not the case. Proposed economic incentives, plus a government-run health plan like the one proposed in the House bill, would cause 88.1 million people to see their current employer-sponsored health plan disappear.
2. Your Health Care Coverage Will Probably Change Anyway: Even if you kept your private insurance, eventually most remaining plans–whether employer plans or individual plans–would have to conform to new federal benefit standards. Moreover, the necessary plan “upgrades” will undoubtedly cost you more in premiums.
3. The Umpire Is Also the First Baseman: The main argument for a “public option” is that it would increase competition. However, if the federal government creates a health care plan that it controls and also sets the rules for the private plans, there is little doubt that Washington would put its private sector “competitors” out of business sooner or later.
4. The Fed Picks Your Treatment: President Obama said: “They’re going to have to give up paying for things that don’t make them healthier. … If there’s a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half for the thing that’s going to make you well.” Does that sound like a government that will stay out of your health care decisions?
5. Individual Mandate Means Less Liberty and More Taxes: Although he once opposed the idea, President Obama is now open to the imposition of an individual mandate that would require all Americans to have federally approved health insurance. This unprecedented federal directive not only takes away your individual freedom but could cost you as well. Lawmakers are considering a penalty or tax for those who don’t buy government-approved health plans.
WHY THE RUSH?
. . . more and more Americans are asking…Mitt Romney posed that very question in print this week and offered how the Massachusetts health care reform could be improved/what could be done differently….regardless of one’s agreement with the Massachusetts approach, this is interesting.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/07/mr-president-whats-the-rush.html
With poll numbers sinking, Nancy Pelosi and Obama started demonizing the insurance companies…Alinsky style. Within a day, the ObamaCare proposal was being framed as Health Insurance Reform…and the usual suspects were claiming there was never a deadline to get this bill finished (whenever-according to Pelosi)…..laughable if this was not so serious.
In his weekly column, Charles Krauthammer predicts that Obama will be signing some watered down version of Health Insurance Reform by end of 2009. It is interesting — if you have not read — here is the link
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/31/obamacare_the_coming_retreat.html
Because the Dems are so invested in Obama being successful, we must stay on top of everything they put on the table (and under,) along with the details in any bill they try and ram through..(rumor going around is the Dems are going to try and slip in Card Check on another bill so they do not have to hold debate/dialogue.)
The biggest mistake was not taking the vote before the recess. As people learn more about this bill, the more the native will be restless.
