Beware Obamacare’s Fine Print
Congress’s Health Care Double Standard
In a desperate scramble to pay for the soaring costs of President Obama’s health care plan, the Senate Finance Committee is contemplating taxing for the first time the health insurance benefits workers get from their employers. One approach would tax the benefits only of workers earning over $100,000. An alternate proposal would tax the value of health care benefits that exceed a cap.
But the taxes wouldn’t be applied equally. Union members serving under collective bargaining agreements would be exempt, even though they often have the richest and most extensive packages of benefits. Union officials have told Democratic leaders of Congress that because collective bargaining agreements can last several years, they should be exempt from any tax because contracts can’t be changed quickly enough to avoid it.
The real reason, of course, is that unions have political clout and are exercising it. The exemption is “a means of making sure that unions are foursquare behind any reform bill that comes out,” Henry Aaron, a Brookings Institution scholar, told the Washington Examiner.
There’s a reason the Obama health care plan is being rushed through Congress this summer — because the American people would likely never support it if given time to absorb and understand such fine print. If the union carve-out isn’t sufficient to excite public anger, wait till you hear about the version of the Obama plan prepared by Senator Edward Kennedy, which would specifically exempt Members of Congress from many of its provisions.
As the U.S. Office of Personnel Management notes, Members of Congress “enjoy the widest selection of health plans in the country.” According to page 114 of the Kennedy bill, a similar array of choices would not be available to other Americans in the future. Instead, they would be shunted into health insurance plans under the straightjacket of whatever the government decides is a “basic” plan.
The goal would be to restrict care for the general public in order to control costs, while making sure Congress gets the gold-plated attention it’s accustomed to. Ultimately, the rest of us would be asked to trade a private insurance company as gatekeeper for a government gatekeeper. The difference, of course, is that most of us can fire our insurance gatekeeper. Just try to do that once the government fills that role.
—John Fund
To read more stories like this one, please subscribe to Political Diary.
Some tweets and some information that is vital for all to know about the plan.
Take The Pain Pill Obamacare! http://tinyurl.com/knodtp
Panelists warn of the revival of eugenics under Obama’s modern healthcare through the denial of care to millions who would be judged ‘not fit to live’, just as in Nazi Germany.
Historian Anton Chaitkin also alleges that Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel, in working with Obama, has also called for the Hippocratic oath to be ‘junked.’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-0SHFEgGo
I have mentioned before Obama wants to be known as a progressive. Progressives believed they could control the population through eugenics. Obama fully supports tax dollars to planned parenthood for abortions. Planned parenthood was formed to make a cleaner race.
Health care reform this Weds. Watch the vid & submit your q’s: http://bit.ly/U3pgV
Progressives & Eugenics http://tinyurl.com/nh76v2
Schumer says health care isn’t dead yet – Dems might have to do it alone! http://tinyurl.com/m6zs39
SINGLE PAYER.
http://tinyurl.com/mdcnf5
Nonetheless, two recent news media polls have found public support for a government plan, even if many people are unsure about its implications. The most recent survey, a New York Times-CBS News poll released Sunday, found that 72 percent supported the idea, including half of those who identified themselves as Republicans.
“The polling data backs up our subjective view that to make health care reform work, you need a public option,” said Schumer.
SCHUMER IS lying and he knows the poll did not suggest any such thing. THE poll did not say Americans wanted a public option. http://tinyurl.com/n85dod
O has excluded his healthcare plan 4 congress & they will not pay taxes on benefits Just you! http://tinyurl.com/ngddqr
Canadian Health Care: The End of Innovation? John Stossel
http://tinyurl.com/rb35go
JohnStossel Reaction to my Health Care Piece Being Pulled by ABC
http://bit.ly/5wb2N
Pelosi Won’t Give Public a Week to Review Text of Health-Care Bill Before House Votes on It http://tinyurl.com/mhfatp
Obama’s ‘Very Best Care’ For His Own Family Not 4 U, ABC Comment Largely Unimportant Elsewhere http://tinyurl.com/r777cq
ABC: A Love Story ABC ended up revealing more about Obama and the network than the health care debate itself. http://tinyurl.com/l6rfwy
Oregon Offers Terminal Patients Doctor-Assisted Suicide Instead of Medical
Care http://tinyurl.com/6syao5
In Belgium and the Netherlands physician-assisted suicide did morph into direct patient-killing, and critics say it’s a likely scenario here
Washington Death w/ Dignity Act,a first step toward not only
physician-assisted suicide but ultimately euthanasia
http://tinyurl.com/lqx9xu
Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act Between ‘98 & “07, physicians wrote a total
of 541 prescriptions for lethal doses of medication, 341 died
Obama Has excluded His Wonderful healthcare plan 4 congress & they will not
pay taxes on benefits either. Just you! http://tinyurl.com/ngddqrabout
A partially born child is among the weakest, most helpless beings in our
midst and on that account exerts a special claim on our protection
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote in concurring with the majority opinion.
http://tinyurl.com/mu95gk
Gibbs: I am not going to get into that? Why R U There? What Obnoxious Jerk.
Elitist Attitude extraordinaire! http://tinyurl.com/l445t7
MSM, U & Your Children, parents R Not Exempt From Obamas Universal Rationed
Health Care. Only Gobernment is excluded. Why The Exclusion?
Conyers: if the government were to spend the same amount as individual
Americans
— $2.5 trillion – universal healthcare could be a reality, adding that the
current privatized system was “broken.”
Conyers bill, H.R. 676 would establish a publicly funded,
government-administered healthcare systm similar 2 those in Canada & Great
Britain
Conyers’ plan, the guvmint would use taxpayers money 2 fund expansion of
Medicare that would extend health coverage 4 everyone in U.S
Admin official: WH in the next 10 days detail savings of $200 billion to
$300 billion that could b realized from Mcare over the next decade
By giving up their freedom of choice,Americans R supposed 2 save a
overburdened welfare state that already operates dangerously in the red.
“Newspeak,” of course, is when the words of a language are distorted to fit
a totalitarian regime’s plan to restrict liberty.
Rangel described the public plan as “the best of Medicaid, best of
Medicare
, then kick it up a notch.” The chairmen estimated the plan would cover 95
percent of Americans.
“This was always going to be messy,” said a senior administration
strategist.
“It got messy faster and earlier than people thought. But none of it is
anything that’s going to stop it.”
Obama’s message below was made July ‘08, he planned on major regulations and
Universal healthcare. This is Obama regarldess of crisis.
Obama:“I am someone who is no doubt progressive,” adding that he believes in
universal health care and that government has a strong role
to play in overseeing financial institutions and cracking down on abuses in
bankruptcies and the like. http://tinyurl.com/6dujux
Today Progessives Use CRISIS, Healthcare,global warming, economy,private
corp takeovers, czars for regulations, Power, Control
http://tinyurl.com/4k99wz PROGRESSIVES THRUOUT time have radical ways of
getting control over the people for ultimate power,
Today Progessives Use CRISIS, Healthcare,global warming, economy,private
corp takeovers, czars for regulations, Power, Control
Further, they think we’re stupid,” said DeMint. They think that you don’t
know that government does not work well http://tinyurl.com/lejuc612:34
You get euthanasia so Obama can control costs. This is taking your freedom 2
get the best healthcare available away so Obama has slush funds
In critiquing the Hippocratic Oath, Dr. Emanuel calls for training medical
students “to move toward more socially sustainable
Physician Disputes Obama’s Claim of 46 Million Uninsured Americans, unknown
how many illegals uninsured http://tinyurl.com/n6xle6
Obama Wants “Best Care” For His Family But Obfuscates On What taxpayers get.
http://tinyurl.com/me2ty2
To the zombies of the left, reality doesn’t matter.I DON’T CARE ANYMORE LET
THE ZOMBIES TAKE OVER MEDICINE http://tinyurl.com/nyl29e1:24
Is Obama the First Pro-Euthanasia President? And Obama Against Second
Diagnosis. http://tinyurl.com/maccgu1:45
83 percent of Americans are very or somewhat satisfied with the quality of
health care http://tinyurl.com/mjernt2:19
Obama, You believe all diagnosis and physicians are perfect, never make a
mistake or take a life due to malpractice?
Obama: So, if he tells me, You know what, you’ve got such-and-such and you
need to take such-and-such
, I don’t go around arguing with him or go online to see if I can find a
better opinion than his.