Posted on 09/12/2004 2:21:58 PM PDT by GailA
Senator John Kerry has proposed a plan to radically reform the U.S. health care system. If he is successful, millions of middle-income families will be enrolled in Medicaid, the federal-state health program for the poor. Millions more will get their insurance through a system of managed competition modeled after the federal employee’s health system and similar to what Hillary Clinton proposed more than a decade ago. Most people would be forced from the private health plans they have today.
The ostensible purpose of Kerry’s proposal is to insure the uninsured. By some estimates as many as 44 million people lack health insurance at any one time. Sen. Kerry’s goal is to insure about two-thirds of them. The effort will be expensive, even by Kerry’s own estimate. We put the price of these reforms in excess of $1 trillion over ten years — an amount equal to almost $1,000 per year for every household in America.
Unlike the Clinton plan, Kerry’s program would not mandate employer-provided health insurance coverage. Instead, it would use economic incentives to induce people to voluntarily insure. But very little of those incentives will actually go to individuals. About 90 percent of the funds will go to state governments, employers and insurance companies. In a nutshell, the Kerry plan would use taxpayer dollars to encourage public and private institutions to persuade individuals to obtain insurance. Among the inducements:
(Excerpt) Read more at ncpa.org ...
You ever notice that whenever a Democratic proposes spending a Trillion $'s it has zero dollar effect on the deficit?
Haven't you heard?
Anyone against John Kerry's health plan is an idiot (per Theresa Heinz Kerry).
Canada Looks for Ways to Fix Its Health Care System (Socialist Health Care is a FAILURE)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1213683/posts
"If you are not bleeding all over the place, you are put on the back burner," Ms. Pacione said, "unless of course you have money or know somebody."
"It's like winning the lottery to get in and see the doctor," Mayor Marcel Brunelle said.
But experts say those efforts may not be enough. "If the current trends continue we can anticipate a crisis," warned Joseph D'Cruz, a University of Toronto business school professor who specializes in health care. "People will actually find it impossible to get general medical services in their towns."
Kerry won't even subscribe to his own health Plan... how would Clinton feel if he had to wait for his surgery in the public sector and he had to use social welfare doctors to do it... The Kerry Health plan will make it impossible for us to choose our own doctors... This is nothing short of welfare clinics.
In terms of economic impact, John Kerry's proposed health plan is nothing short of another 9/11 on our economy.
For those who don't remember, when the stock market opened after 9/11, ONE TRILLION DOLLARS was pulled out of our economy.
...And Kerry things pulling another trillion out is going to "help" us.
God save us from Liberals. The road to Hell is paved with their ideas.
That's because they also propose to tax the living daylights out of "the rich" (who -- according to the Leftists -- are everyone who makes more than 35K per year).
well said. Or maybe they'll just print a sh!tload of worthless money and devalue the US Dollar to 1/10th of its current value and all in the name of "it is for the Children".
Thank you for posting this. Kerry once again rears up on his hind legs, and brays...
I can see a time in the near future when we have our children at home, and surgeries are performed on kitchen tables. Raw garlic is a most excellent antiseptic and antibiotic. Note to readers: I don't want this to happen, but I can see it coming in our future if this crap doesn't stop.
This is an excellent analysis, THANK YOU! It has terrific supporting evidence about why most of the money going into the plan will simply be wasted and wind up insuring few people who don't already get free care.
And then THIS gem... yikes!
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"Strangely, the one group that Kerry completely ignores is the most discriminated against under the current system and would most likely respond to a tax subsidy: middle-income families who earn more than 300 percent of the poverty level. Indeed, once the Kerry plan is implemented, middle-class families who do not get insurance through an employer are the ones most likely to be uninsured!"
"It is widely thought that the uninsured are almost always low income families. Over the past decade, however, virtually all the growth in the uninsured has been among families who make more than $50,000 a year. By contrast, the uninsured rate among families who earn less than $25,000 actually declined." 29
"In general, families who earn $50,000 a year or more get up to a 50 percent tax subsidy if they obtain insurance through an employer. Yet they get virtually no tax relief if they purchase insurance on their own. Other than provide an opportunity to buy into the system of managed competition (with government subsidized catastrophic insurance), Kerry’s health care plan does little to assist this group - even though they are the ones most likely to bear a disproportionate tax burden to fund it."
Be sure to send it to all medical people and radio talk host you can.
Most welcome, to be sure.
This would be a DISASTER... not just economically but on a person level for millions of families out there :-(
Excellent info about Kerry's health plan and how it would devastate the economy and health care, especially for the middle class.
Gee .. isn't that the same plan that lost them the House .. the first time in .. what .. 40 YEARS??
I just sent it to Drudge on his report a story thing.
LTNS! Thanks for the ping! :)
That's because they also propose to tax the living daylights out of "the rich" (who -- according to the Leftists -- are everyone who makes more than 35K per year).
Not exactly. They use the ABC method:
A. They pass a spending bill such as this.
B. The spending bill increases the deficit.
C. They decry the increased deficit introduce & pass new tax increases to pay off the deficit.
4. Repeat ABC until everybody hands over 105% of earnings.
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