DEMOCRATS DEFENDING THE UNDEFENSIBLE, OBAMACARE!
Aren’t you tired of the Progressive’s going out of their way to let all Americans know that 20 Million people might lose their free healthcare if Obamacare is repealed! They keep running their Progressive 'Pie Holes' about the stats coming from the CBO (Congressional Budget Office), but what they're not telling you is those numbers don't take into account the replacement portion of their half-truth, again! Every American wants every 'Legal' American citizen to have healthcare, and to think anything else is just a fabrication of their imagination, and that's a no-brainer!
Yes, 'Agenda Journalists,' Republicans have offered Obamacare alternatives!
The Patients' Choice Act, introduced on May 20, 2009, in the House by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and in the Senate by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. They claim the bill would:
– emphasize prevention
– make affordable premiums
– provide penalties for insurance companies that don’t accept patients with pre-existing conditions
– create regional pooling arrangements
– expand Health Savings Accounts
– expand Health Savings Accounts
– prevent tax increases or new government spending
– clean up Medicaid and Medicare
– include ideas from states
There is no Congressional Budget Office score for this plan, so claims should be taken with a grain of salt, just as with Obamacare.
The Empowering Patients First Act that was introduced on July 30, 2009, by Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., would first repeal Obamacare and replace it with a “patient-centered” solution that would:
– provide tax incentives for purchasing health insurance
– limit abortion funding
– prevent discrimination against companies who object to covering abortion based on religious beliefs
– improve HSAs
– allow for health insurance pooling among individuals and small employers
– allow insurance to be purchased across state lines
– reform Medicaid and Medicare
– increase transparency for claim reporting
Again, there’s no CBO score for this bill, but it’s an alternative nonetheless.
The Patient OPTION Act
was introduced on Aug. 1 by Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., and would first
– allow individuals to deduct all health care expenses, including insurance
– increase contribution limits for HSAs
– move Medicare to a “premium assistance program”
– provide a tax credit for donations to hospitals and clinics
– allow for health insurance pooling by small businesses
– provide doctors a tax incentive to treat indigent patients
– phase out the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
There is no CBO score for this bill either.
The American Health Care Reform Act was introduced on Sept. 18 by Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., and would also fully repeal Obamacare. The law would then:
– increase access to portable, affordable health insurance
– expand federal support for state high-risk pools and cap premiums of those pools
– allow people with pre-existing conditions to move between markets so long as they maintain continuous coverage
– introduce tort reform
– prohibits federal funds for abortion except in extreme cases.
This bill does not have a CBO score either.
Again, these are just four alternatives to Obamacare that Republicans have introduced. Whether or not the bills would be any better than Obamacare is unknown, and whether Democrats would admit they were better than Obamacare is unlikely, but the fact remains that Republican alternatives are out there.
Obamacare puts the health care system on the wrong track and
will expand the role of the federal government in every component of Americans’
health care. To get the health care system on the
right track that empowers
patients, reduces cost, and ensures access, Obamacare must be defunded and
repealed. ~~
In 2013 Ben Carson, who is probably best known for his work
as a neurosurgeon, but in recent months he has become a conservative firebrand
and today he offered some controversial red meat to the audience at the Values
Voter Summit in Washington.
Carson, who is a contributor to Fox News, assailed president
Obama's health care law, saying it is akin to slavery.
"I have to tell you, you know Obamacare is really, I
think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,"
Carson said. "And it is slavery in a way because it is making all of us
subservient to the government."
Carson, who is African American, went on to say that the
administration's push toward Obamacare is reminiscent to a push toward
socialism.
"It was never about health care, it was about
control," Carson said. "That's why when this administration took
office it didn't matter that the country was going off the cliff economically.
All forces were directed toward getting this legislation passed.
"Vladimir Lenin, one of the fathers of Socialism and
Communism,
said that socialized medicine is the keystone to the establishment
of the socialist state!" ~~
Obamacare was never intended to help Americans, but to
control them……..
Saul Alinsky's Doctrine: 8 steps to topple a nation and
create a socialist state!
Obama was influenced by the writings and philosophies of Saul
Alinsky, author of the book, "Rules for Radicals," and later by Frank
Marshall Davis, with similar philosophies.
Barak Obama followed the philosophies of these 'role models'
throughout his days as a Community Organizer for ACORN, using tactics that
appeared to some as 'shaking down' businesses in exchange for not branding them
'hate groups.'
And apparently, Obama is still following those radical rules
up until his last day in office!
Recall that Hillary Clinton did her college thesis on his writings and Barack Hussein Obama writes about him in his books.
Recall that Hillary Clinton did her college thesis on his writings and Barack Hussein Obama writes about him in his books.
How to create a social state by Saul Alinsky:
There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before
you can create a social state.
The first is the most important.
1) Healthcare — Control healthcare and you control the
people
3) Debt — Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That
way you can increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control — Remove the ability to defend themselves
from the Government. That way you can create a police state.
5) Welfare — Take control of every aspect of their lives
(Food, Housing, and Income).
6) Education — Take control of what people read and listen
to — take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion — Remove the belief in the God from the
Government and schools.
8) Class Warfare — Divide the people into the wealthy and
the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax)
the wealthy with the support of the poor.
Now, think ...
Does any of this sound like what was happening to the United
States before Trump! ~~
Recently, the go-to argument from the anti-Obamacare forces
has been about deductibles. Sure, 20 million people have insurance. Sure, most
of them can afford the premiums. But what's the point if all it buys you is
crappy insurance with a $6,000 deductible? As Nathan Nascimento put in National
Review a few months ago, "what good is health-insurance coverage for
middle- and low-income families if they can’t afford to use it?"
It should be a stunning fact that every proposition on which
President Obama promoted the sale
of Obamacare was a complete and utter lie. I
tried to document the foundational lies and their close relations in the
endless Power Line series “Lies of Obamacare,” featuring the thumbnail image of
the man having Obamacare shoved down his throat.
If politicians were subject to truth in advertising laws,
Obama would be behind bars. Obama is incorrigible. When it comes to lying to advance
the cause, he and his Democratic allies simply lack a conscience.
Indeed, they are still lying about it. David Catron updates
the story for the American Spectator: “Obamacare at six: A legacy of
deception.” Catron shows that Obama is still at it:
Obamacare just turned six and the president is still
attempting to convince a skeptical public that his “reform” law is working. On
the anniversary of its passage, the White House issued a statement from Obama
containing all manner of hilarious claims including the following howler:
“Thanks in part to this law, health care prices have risen at the lowest rate
in 50 years … premiums for a family with job-based coverage are almost $2,600
lower than if trends from the decade before the law had continued.” As Emily
Zanotti pointed out in this space, not even Chelsea Clinton buys that whopper.
The president’s claim that job-based family coverage costs
less than it would had he refrained from meddling with health care flunks the
laugh test. Employer-based health insurance premiums have continued to rise
unabated. And, as the Kaiser Family Foundation reports, “Since 2010, both the
share of workers with deductibles and the size of those deductibles have
increased sharply. These two trends together result in a 67 percent increase in
deductibles since 2010.” In his statement, however, Obama makes a specious
claim about premiums while studiously ignoring skyrocketing out-of-pocket
costs.
The claims the president makes about Obamacare are rife with
such omissions. His claim that it has contributed to a slowdown in health care
inflation, for example, is an Orwellian fantasy. According to a report produced
by his own health care bureaucrats, the slowdown to which he refers began
before the “reform” law was passed. In reality, Obamacare actually reversed the
trend: “In 2014, U.S. health care spending increased 5.3 percent following
growth of 2.9 percent in 2013 … The faster growth experienced in 2014 was
primarily due to the major coverage expansions under the Affordable Care Act.”
The president’s sixth anniversary statement also claims that
Obamacare has made dramatic cuts in the uninsured rate, but that too conflicts
with the facts….
Catron’s column isn’t a complete reckoning and it doesn’t
exactly look back in anger, but it’s a good start and anger is an appropriate
response. ~~by Scott Johnson, a Friend of America!
10 Reasons Obamacare is (and will continue to be) a Failure
1. Strong Public
Opposition
One thing is abundantly clear about Obamacare: it has never
been well-received by the public. Polls have been especially brutal, with over
95% of polls taken since passage of the bill showing strong opposition, usually
by double-digit margins. Proponents of the bill knew it was unpopular at the
time it passed and believed it would "grow" on people over time. That
hasn't happened, and it is very difficult to push an agenda that has little
public support.
2. Insurance Costs
Continue Meteoric Rise
One of the central claims made by the "central
planners" was that insurance premiums would go down for buyers. Instead, the law actually forces plans to
cover more and more ("children" must be covered to age 27,
smorgasbord of newly "free" "women's health" services) that
everyone was forced to pay into. Add in the abundance of taxes and fees that
are simply passed on to c
onsumers and the initial claim that Obamacare would
reduce premiums is laughable. It doesn't take a trained economist to know that
raising minimum requirements of coverage, forcing more coverage be provided,
raising taxes, forcing high-risk patients into pooled plans, and reducing
options would raise costs.
3. Too Many Loopholes
to be Effective
One of the problems with a bill written by lobbyists and
bureaucrats, passed by people who never read it, and numbers in the 1,000s of
pages is that there will probably be a loophole or two in there. States and businesses found those loopholes
and have taken advantage of them to avoid being (more) negatively impacted by
the law. Employers have cut back hours or reduced staff to avoid hitting
certain requirements. States have opted out of the state-exchanges and opted
for the federal government to run their own exchanges. Perhaps the only good
thing about Obamacare is that it was so poorly put together that many
businesses and individuals have found a way to escape much of it. At the same
time, those loopholes have completely halted many of the core goals of the
bill, adding to the general failure of Obamacare.
4. Leaves 31 Million
Uninsured by 2023
Originally, the bill was touted as a means to both cover the
uninsured (either through subsidies or "forcing" people who could
afford insurance to buy it) and help reduce costs for everyone. Now, the
administration downplays the impact the bill has on people, instead regularly
inferring that 90% of people are not impacted by the bill outside of all the
great "free" stuff they are forced buy coverage for now. But the
reality is that the goal of insuring all the uninsured isn't going to be met.
The Congressional Budget Office projected that by 2023 - more than a decade
after implementation - that 31 million people will still be uninsured. This is
the case even with subsidies being provided to help the poor, and the wonderful
IRS enforcing forced-purchase laws.
5. Program Costs
Continue to Blow Past Initial Estimates
One of the great charades of the Obama administration was
framing the Obamacare bill as a program with a price-tag below the magic $1
trillion mark. The CBO initially scored the bill as costing $900B over the
first decade. Of course, the CBO could only make these estimates based on what
the bill said would happen, not what most of us knew actually would happen. In
order to get the bill under $1 trillion, taxes that would never be implemented
and cuts that would never be made were added. Some "savings" were
double-counted. Other reductions in the cost of the bill
were made on rosy expectations
of reducing costs and cutting waste. And anyone familiar with the 2013
sequester or just government in general knows is that the government never
willingly cuts or reduces anything. But most importantly, the bill was framed
as only costing that $900 billion over a decade, which included four years
before most of the provisions were implemented. In 2014, CBO figures showed
that the true cost of the first decade of Obamacare will be closer to $1.8
trillion. Any chance that estimate would have passed at the time?
6. The Program is Run
by the Government
Pointing out the Obamacare is run by the government as a
reason it is failing is almost an "enough said" scenario. But let's
be honest. When has the government ever run anything cost-efficiently or
effectively? Everything the government touches turns to rot. Very, very, very
expensive rot. Of course, this is why conservatives prefer market-based
solutions to healthcare. Real people making real decisions is always better
than government bureaucrats working with their crony allies to make those
decisions.
7. States Reject the
Bill
One of the "loopholes" that will prove most
damaging to the implementation of Obamacare is the ability of states to refuse
to set up a state health insurance exchange and instead leave it up to the
federal government to run them. Over half of states have chosen not to run a
state exchange, and even with three years to set up the exchanges, the federal
government has failed to establish the exchanges. Instead, they continue to
push back deadlines for the exchanges. While the federal government attempted
to persuade states to create them with the promise of huge financial support,
the mostly conservative states realized that the long-term costs would be
unsustainable and the federal government would still be dictating everything
anyway.
8. Inability to Alter
Bill
When Obamacare was initially passed, Democrats had full
control of both chambers of congress. With 60 votes in the US Senate and a
healthy lead in the US House of Representatives, the Republicans couldn't stop
anything. As unpopular elements of the bill have popped up, though, it
is
virtually impossible to make fixes to the bill without Republican approval.
Many conservatives have argued - and I am one of them - that the GOP should not
help remove unpopular elements of Obamacare. They passed it. They can deal with
it. Some elements the Democrats have sought to change include the medical
device tax, which is one of the funding mechanisms of Obamacare. Also, errors
in the state exchange planning portion of the bill could provide significant
speed bumps down the road.
9. True
"Benefits" Remain Unclear
If you haven't seen all the benefits promised since the
passage of Obamacare, you are not alone. While Obama praised the
"access" to contraception (read: free) during the 2012 campaign, most
people only noticed the rising premiums. Americans feel like they are paying
more and more and getting less for it. Starting in 2014, Americans will also
have to start reporting their health coverage to the IRS.
10. Negative Employee
Repercussions
In order to escape the heavy hand of government, businesses
have been forced to follow the law as passed and find ways to avoid being
negatively impacted. As a result of the law, businesses
have been forced to
drop full-time employees to part-time status, stop hiring altogether, and scrap
plans for expansion. Not only does this hurt the overall employment market, but
employees are being impacted with less hours. Those employees are not only
still not getting employee-provided insurance, but they are now making less
money overall, making it more difficult to purchase government-mandated
insurance through exchanges that are not even set up yet.
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