conservative perspective obamacare shovel ready
Pres. Obama campaigned on the idea of wealth redistribution and no tax increases for people earning under 0,000 but apparently with his health care monstrosity proposal, this idea is only for the short term. Then as eluded to below,all will indeed see a tax increase and including those on the lower end of the earnings scale, they to will be forced to redistribute what little wealth they have as well. So this seems like the winners in this will be illegal immigrants and the government.
Steal from the Rich... and Then the Poor?
"The typical family would be spared higher taxes from the House Democratic plan to overhaul health care, and their low-income neighbors could come out ahead. Their wealthy counterparts, however, face big tax increases that could eventually hit future generations of taxpayers who are less wealthy... But unlike other income tax rates, the new tax would not be indexed for inflation. As incomes rise over time because of inflation, more families ¨C and more small business owners ¨C would be hit by the tax." ¨C The Washington Post
Then factoring in the current National recession and to the varying degrees of individual State recessions this proposal "promises" to be disastrous on many levels but namely, health care itself for which it is aimed but also and equally disastrous on state budgets, which even without this proposal will take years to recover if at all. Consider the following if this proposal were to go into effect and then think of mass migration from states not ¡°well-positioned¡± to states that on the surface are. Those ¡°well-positioned¡± states will be immediately overwhelmed in all areas thus destroying their budgets creating chaos, while leaving those now less-populated states deprived of even more revenue with which to operate.
Location, Location, Location
"Health policy experts are concerned not only about the ability of the states to shoulder their share of the cost of reform but also about their administrative and analytical capacity. Some states are well-positioned to manage a new federal program that seeks to cover the uninsured while pressuring doctors and hospitals to deliver care more efficiently... At the other end of the spectrum are states with poor collaboration in the health sector, lax insurance regulations and small, disorganized Medicaid programs...they could find the post-reform transition particularly harrowing." ¨C The Washington Post
Now this whole idea promises to deliver lower health care costs, but a simple look at this claim from the C.B.O.dispels that notion all together. Not to mention the fact that when the government gets involved costs never go down but most assuredly go up.
Getting Healthy on the Taxpayers' Dollars
"Health-care legislation pushed by U.S. House Democrats would attract less-healthy enrollees for insurance coverage than Senate legislation and therefore would result in higher average health costs, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office." ¨C The Wall Street Journal
Another ¡°promise¡± being made is that you will be able to keep the insurance you have but most know that should this be enacted, employers will discontinue providing health care benefits as it would obviously be beneficial to their bottom-line. So this to bolsters the argument, that this proposal will in fact raise premiums in both private plans and the government option. It would do so in the private heath insurance industry due to the decrease in enrollment, so they would raise premiums to make-up the difference and keep pace with rising costs. And the government would be forced to do the same to cover the cost of the inundation of new enrollees.
Say Goodbye to Your Health Benefits
"...The way the Democrats are reshaping the incentives in the health insurance market, it is much less likely that the employer-provided health insurance people are satisfied with and want to keep will still exist... The insurance industry has been warning for weeks that the combination of guaranteed issue with a weak individual mandate will spike premium rates. Democrats have denounced the industry and stepped up punitive measures directed against it. But the industry's logic is irrefutable." ¨C Robert Robb, The News Journal
Call, write or email your ¡°representatives¡± and tell them NO! Do not stop, this is a killer of people, jobs, states, freedom, capitalism and our way of Life.