Ten reasons the health care reform bill should not pass.

U4prez ^ | 3/20/2010 | Gurr

[rrdog]

The health care reform bill is scheduled for a vote tomorrow. All indications are that the bill will pass. There are hundreds of reasons this is a bad bill and will destroy the lives of many Americans. I am attempting to expose just a few of the most egregious.

The bottom line is this, and it is not debatable.

There is simply no rational way for this bill to work. It cannot logically lower costs, and it cannot exist without lowering the quality of health care. The person who tells you otherwise is dishonest, or foolish. The math simply does not work.

[RushingWater]

Nice summary. I watched CNN a wee bit this afternoon and the spirit of “it’s not so bad” came over me. Thanks for bringing me back to truth and reality!

[Paperdoll]

Have you emaild this to your Congresscritter, and ev3eryone you know, plus have you posted this on FR and other forums repeatedly , or did you just come up with this the day before the vote deadline?

[blackbart.223]

"Ten reasons the health care reform bill should not pass."

I can give you one reason. It is unconstitional.

[Diogenesis]

PROOF THAT OBAMACARE/ROMNEYCARE IS A PROVEN FINANCIAL FAILURE

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Mass. State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill (I): RomneyCARE
is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally.

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"Romney admitted ... that about half of the real costs of "extending
coverage to the uninsured... is covered by federal tax dollars.

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Mr. Romney's RomneyCARE is doing what entitlements do: crowding
out private insurers, compounding the cost explosion, walking the state toward rationing.

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From CATO (the whole article is worthwhile): "Of the 133,000 people who have signed up for insurance since the plan was
implemented, slightly more than half have received totally free coverage."

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"Health Care Speechwriter for Edwards, Obama & Clinton Now Without Health Insurance"
I'm a critic because what Washington is talking about doing
has made health insurance unaffordable in Massachusetts.

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"Small businesses bridle at health insurance hikes (Romneycare strangles Mass. businesses)
some really bad news from Blue Cross-Blue Shield: His company's health insurance rates are going up 47 percent in January."

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" Rationing medicine has already begun
… government-
run health care has introduced rationing and waiting lists and cost the lives of the people under its provisions."

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"DEATH PANELS OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS"

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"President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the
possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission."

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"You can't reap these savings without limiting patients' choices in some way," said Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess."

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"State plan may place limits on patients' hospital options( Mass. RomneyCare )"

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"Romney Visits Nebraska, Talks Health Care [where he defends Romneycare] "

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"Paying the Health Tax in Massachusetts [Romneycare]
Unless we ponied up for a pricier policy we
neither need nor want-or enrolled in a government-sponsored insurance plan-we
would have to pay $1,000 each year to the state.
How did we become outlaws?"

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The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006."

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A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State's 'Grand Experiment' Fails [RomneyCare]

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Health care in Massachusetts: a warning for America [Romney brings Mass. to its knees]
The Bay State's mandatory insurance law is raising costs, limiting access, and lowering care. "

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"'Severe' doc shortage seen hiking wait time
"The shortage is getting more severe""

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"Health costs to rise again.( RomneyCare )
The state's major health insurers plan to raise premiums by about 10 percent next year"

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"Nation's ill-advised to follow Mass. plan [Health plan a failure]
September 17, 2009 The canary is dead."

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"Bay State Insurance Premiums Highest in Country - Boston Globe August 22, 2009"

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"Massachusetts: the laboratory for ObamaCare"

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"Massachusetts' Obama-like reforms increase health costs, wait times [RomneyCare]
Premiums are growing 21 to 46 percent faster than the national average"

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"Mass. Pushes Rationing to Control Universal Healthcare Costs (RomneyCare)"

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"1,000 cancer patients 'refused treatment'"

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"Massachusetts Universal Healthcare System Breaking Down Already"

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"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"

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"Mr. Romney should have known better before signing on to this not-so-grand experiment, especially since the state's "free market" reforms that he boasts about have proven to be irrelevant when not fictional.
Only 21,000 people have used the "connector" that was supposed to link individuals to private insurers."

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A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State's 'Grand Experiment' Fails [RomneyCare]
Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide,
"RomneyCare" is threatening to bankrupt the state."

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"Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry"

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"Romney's mistreatments a sick man,"

Where is RINO Romney
as the Dems push through ObamaCARE?

Answer: The RINO coward is hiding, sending out his saboteurs
against Gov. Palin and all conservative GOP stars again,
selling his ghostwritten book, helping Gore push the fraud of climate change,
and attacking the "tea party".

[umgud]

From an email today.

Let me get this straight.
We're trying to pass a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it.
Passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it.
To be signed by a president that also hasn't read it and who smokes.
With funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes.
All to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese.
And financed by a country that's broke. What the hell could possibly go wrong????

[historyrepeatz]

Obama said, “Don’t do it for me, Don’t do it for Nancy Pelosi.. Do it for the American people.” But.. Aren’t the American people AGAINST it? Hmmm.. So, it looks like it REALLY is about Obama himself because WE sure as hell don’t want it.

[The Comedian]

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[blackbart.223]

"Obama said, “Don’t do it for me, Don’t do it for Nancy Pelosi.. Do it for the American people.” But.. Aren’t the American people AGAINST it? Hmmm.. So, it looks like it REALLY is about Obama himself because WE sure as hell don’t want it."

Obama speaks with a forked tongue. He just want this over so he can go to Indonesia and suck up to his fellow muslims.

[CanaGuy]

As a conservative Canadian observer, I can’t help shake the feeling that your government wouldn’t waste its time voting if the bill wasn’t going to pass. In that light, it’s a fait accompli, as they say in French. Seems to me you are about to acquire the world’s largest and most expensive socialist bureaucracy. Welcome to the sad and sorry club. Take it from me, you’ll soon learn to ignore government squandering, intrusion and taxes at the 50% mark, and still keep your blood pressure at acceptable levels ....as the numbness of oppression slowly seeps in. Well done, to those who fought...shame on those too stupid to know or care.

[Othniel]

Great article. One thing mentioned was "supply." There was a piece on FR about how nurses are overworked and are quitting the profession after 5 years. In my town there is a community college and a university. Both set limits on the number of people admitted to the nursing programs. If you factor the limited number of new nurses, figure that a certain number are going to quit when to raise families, another number are going to get sick of the administrative BS, patient overload, & lack of resources and quit, the supply will drop really fast. Same with doctors. The Central Valley of California has a shortage of drs., especially specialists, and there has been a push at the educational level to increase those numbers, but who wants to come to work in a place where a good chunk of your clientel are illegals, who won't pay you, and what you get from the gvt. is peanuts?

Congress, of course, will be exempt.....ba$tards.