-premium increases that come directly out of the pockets of the individual or employer
-increased co-pays on drugs and doctor visits
-increased costs to doctors. My doctor's nurse said they are almost finished implementing the required medical-record electronic filing programs. She said it has cost them well over $100,000 and would be a continued additional monthly expense forever! (By the way, you know who produces and sells the program - GE!) Doctors must provide a translator upon request. Who do you think pays for that? It sure ain't Obama!
Absolutely NOTHING about this ‘health care reform’ is equitable.
The whole mess is just a further opportunity for “O” to make political capital at the expense of hard-working and tax-paying Americans.
He and his supporters in DC are pandering to a whole class of indolent and spoiled losers (an increasing element in American society) just to buy their ‘vote’.
Never mind that these government give-away’s will reach a saturation point and bring down everything in the process!
No matter WHAT your politics… basic logic tells you that no working class on earth can forever provide wholesale, increasing and permanent subsidies to ever larger groups of able-bodied idlers, without (at the very LEAST) compromising the social stability of their country!
Social instability is the Pandora’s Box of every evil known to civilized man.
At some point, the whole scheme breaks down. If you only approach the matter pragmatically and regard just the facts-wholly apart from any emotional and political considerations, you CANNOT believe this kind of coercion of the working people of America will work for even a short time, much less exist efficiently over time!
I work in health insurance.
My companies premiums averaged an increase of about 6%/year over the last decade; in the fall of 2010 they went up 21%.
Two months after the first set of Obamacare laws were implemented, we took a 38% pay cut. This was due to Obamacare increasing the loss ratios on insurers, which forces them to spend more and make less. I have colleagues that have had to leave the industry altogether and start over in a new career, as they are no longer able to support their families.
Obamacare is about one thing: the control and eventual destruction of the health insurance industry.
Obama can FOAD. He deserves an ass kicking for what he has done to my family and tens of thousands of families like mine.