Will "Obamacare" Create Two Americas?-President's Plans Promises to Result in a Class Divide

CBS ^ | March 14, 2010 | Ben Domenech

[SJackson]

Here’s the worst thing you probably haven’t heard about President Barack Obama’s health care plan, which he and his allies are about to force through the Congress despite enormous opposition from the American people: it makes everything onetime vice presidential nominee John Edwards once said about the class divide of “two Americas” come true.

The dirty little secret of this plan-which wouldn’t be a secret if opponents of this legislative package weren’t distracted by a dozen other wrongheaded policies in it-is that it will bring a major and irreversible upheaval to America’s labor markets. In a time of economic tension, this plan will displace millions of workers and push more people into becoming contract employees, resulting in increased instability for working families.

One of the many original stated goals of the White House’s health care reforms was the promise that you can keep your health plan if you like it. However, the White House wanted to give businesses much-needed relief from burdensome health costs. Like the desire to create a new entitlement while reducing the budget deficit, these aims are nearly impossible to reconcile, so Obama chose a path that accomplishes neither.

The president’s plan penalizes an employer for not providing insurance, but the government will subsidize the health care of workers without employer-provided insurance. This effectively allows workers to receive the same compensation package they get today, but with government footing the health-benefits part of the bill, so employers have no need to make up the difference in cash.

[SJackson]

Class divides, something to make a Marxist's thighs tingle.

[Ulysse]

Marxists have always praised class warfare , civil war...
And Obama is bringing peace to the world and US society

[cranked]

The have and the have nots....how original and socialist/communist to boot.

Mao would be proud.....=.=

[purplelobster]

The other elephant in the room is that everyone will be forced to buy insurance, so what will happen is that middle class freelancers/contract workers will be forced to pay huge amounts while a large segment of the poor will pay nothing. It seems like it will play out that there will be no middle class - just those earning huge salaries and everyone else will be broke.