Posted by
Jack Cruger on Saturday, June 20, 2009 2:07:14 AM
So we’re getting Universal Health Care are We?
I don’t know about you but why aren’t we involved in the creation or selection of our health care plan. Don’t we have too every October select which options we want and even in some cases we have to decide on new plans altogether. Who are these idiots who think they know more than the general population, we’ve made this far on our own.
What ever happened to the fact that we were supposed to get the same Health Care that the members of Congress are getting? Only yesterday somebody let the cat out of the bag when he said that members of Congress are not participants in the proposed Obama health care plan. So why should we have to take what they, the Congress, feels is not good enough for them?
I also can’t figure out what the Obama-Care plan really is because whenever members Congress talk about it, it always sounds altogether different, and depending what crowd they are talking to. As I write this, Obama is speaking to the AMA so we will see how he placates this bunch.
An update on 6/23/2009: I just heard that there are 3 different plans now being tossed around in the Senate, so what will we get by the 4th of July?
I know this Obama Health Care plan is really a Ted Kennedy plan which means the document will weigh at least 300 pounds, 800 pages and have more give-aways to all of the different groups, even building playgrounds, lighted sidewalks to run at night, and everything else that will exercise every thing down to your little finger, and don’t forget illegal immigrants, you know the ones Kennedy calls “Undocumented Americans”.
Obama said they will get the biggest bang for the buck by eliminating unnecessary medical testing then he told the lawyers lobby there would be no “CAP” on suing for malpractices. How do the Doctors know if the testing necessary or not until after they test? I know the answer to this one also. The Obama Care testing police will let the doctors know.
By the way I keep hearing that we will be able to keep our current “Plan” but if it is from our employer they will tax our benefits to pay for the other plan. Isn’t that something special? I wonder if Members of Congress will have to pay tax on their benefits?
How are the plans from the Employers going to be portable? Does each employer you work for have to take on the previous employers plan? I have the answers to the questions, they aren’t portable and you will have to switch to the Obama-Care Government plan when you leave or if you get laid-off or fired.
How are the 95 million who are supposed to be uninsured and don’t pay taxes going to pay their Obama-Care? I know they aren’t. The middle class workers and seniors are.
In order to save Medicare and to pay for Obama-Care seniors will have their benefits severely curtailed because we are now, according to Obama, EXPENDABLE and care should not be given to extend our life, except for the seniors in Congress of course.
I think the Obama admistration or Congress should send us all a copy of the entire plan and give us 90 days to ask questions and another 30 days for them to respond with a marked up version.
The bottom line is we will not know what we are getting until it’s too late and believe me there won’t one Congressperson who will have read the whole thing, and just a few who read the summary.
Senator Ted Kennedy submitted the Obama-Care Plan document to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), by forklift, for a cost estimate. Get a load of this devil in the detail:
CBO
“The coverage of an additional 16 million people in the Kennedy plan is a net number. The CBO estimates 39 million people would join a federally-sponsored “gateway” health care plan by 2019, but that 15 million of them would join by leaving their employer-sponsored health plans for the federal program and another 8 million would join by quitting Medicaid and other state-sponsored health insurance plans -- in essence, 23 million people already covered would simply swap one form of coverage for the government’s “gateway” coverage.”
So we are providing health care to people who already have it, only now at a substantial cost to the Taxpayers.
In addition the CBO said, “its analysis did not include the President's proposal to pay for health-care reform in part by cutting government Medicare and Medicaid spending by more than $600 billion over the decade. But the CBO estimates did include $257 billion in tax increases, nearly the amount -- $326 billion -- proposed by the President over the decade.”
Taxes are going up which means us seniors will get less but pay more, not to save Medicare but to pay for Obama-Care
FOX News analysis:
“In the Kennedy plan, nearly all of the costs of providing health insurance to 16 million more people would stem from the subsidies, estimated at $1.3 trillion over 10 years, CBO said.” Just think only 288,000,000 people left to cover and more $18 trillion to spend. Isn’t that special?
My God isn’t it good that the taxpayers pay for 800,000 abortions every year, we can only imagine the savings.
Don’t forget the USPopulation: 303,824,640 (July 2008 est.).