Your Future Health Care

Here are a few highlights from the bill that is being pushed through congress. Obama better act quick before more people (maybe even a few of the congressmen) actually read it.

Page 16: You can keep your current insurance (Obama keeps repeating this half-truth), but the catch is - after this bill passes, insurance companies will no longer be able to create new plans or sign up new people. If you ever decide you want to switch insurance companies (or change jobs or whatever), then congratulations - you are now enrolled in Obamacare!

Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments/benefits a person will receive (Wait, I thought we were trying to avoid rationing treatments)

Page 42: The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your health care benefits for you. You will have no choice.

Page 50: Health care will be provided to illegals.

Page 58 and 59: Government will have access to your bank accounts and finances (Yay! More government involvement in my personal life)

Page 124: No company can sue government on price fixing and there can be no judicial review against government monopoly (yikes, I thought this was going to increase competition, Mr. President).

Page 149: Any employer with payroll above $400,000 who does not provide health care will be fined 8% (Goodbye personal freedoms. Sorry small business owners).

Page 167: Any individual who doesn't have acceptable health insurance by government standards will be taxed 2.5% (That's right, if you choose not to be on any plan, you're going to be punished).

Page 170: To add to the above, if you are an illegal, you won't be subject to that fine (Make sure the illegals know they are more important than citizens).

Page 272: Rationing of treatments to cancer patients (Oops, I thought Obama said there would be no rationing).

Page 317-318: Government will mandate that hospitals cannot expand (Gotta love government telling us what private businesses can do).

Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of special needs people (Sorry guys, apparently you aren't important enough for adequate health care coverage).

Page 429: Advanced care consultation. May include an order for ending someone's life (That's right - the government will be able to order to end your life if your treatments are too expensive - sorry granny).



And I know I posted this on my other blog, but I can't resist the urge to post it again:

The Poor Getting Poorer

I frequently hear people say, "The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer."

It's pretty obvious that the rich are getting richer. We live in a country that makes that possible (maybe that will change in the next few years). But are the poor really getting poorer?



Hmm...the bottom quintile has averaged 3.9% growth. Not exactly getting poorer.

According to the US Census Bureau, the number of households making $25,000 to $75,000 has decreased from 48.2% to 44.3%. The number of households making less than $25,000 decreased from 28.7% to 25.2% while the number of households making more than $75,000 increased from 23.2% to 30.4%.

Sounds a lot like the poor are actually getting richer.

Obama's Dog and Pony Show

Yesterday, Obama hosted a National Discussion on Health Care Reform where he was supposed to address questions that Americans had about his upcoming health care reform policies.

Of the 7 questions asked, 4 were hand picked by the White House and the other 3 were from liberal groups that proudly and openly support Obama (Healthcare for America Now, Organizing for America, and Service Employees International Union).

Even Helen Thomas, a liberal White House reporter who has been through several administrations said, "The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I'm amazed, I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency...It's very shocking."

Why is Obama hand picking softball questions? What happened to transparency? Why won't Obama answer tough questions and real concerns that people have instead of controlling everything that gets asked?