Doesn’t sound too bad:
1. Cost of coverage will rise: of course, better coverage to more people (so they say).
2. Health care premiums will go up for nearly half of Americans: means premiums will not go up for the other half.
3. Health reform unlikely to create new jobs: That’s not its purpose
4. Federal funding may cover abortion: I personally don’t care about this issue.
5. Four Million people will lose their employer-based plans: may be good since I want health insurance to be totally independent of employers.
6. Medicare will cut services and costs: this has got to happen one way or another regardless of the new healthcare plan unless we’re to become a soggy welfare state.
7. The bill will not pay for itself: maybe not, but the government is overspending far beyond the additional costs of this plan. No politician ever talks about how to really cut costs. Nothing new here.
8. Higher Medicaid costs will gradually shift to states: I’m not greatly concerned about who will pay as ultimately it all comes out of my pocket.
9. Doctor shortages could lead to rationing: won’t happen. Changes will be made to accommodate doctors.
10. The bill raises taxes for many individuals and businesses: covered by an earlier item.
Interesting tagline you got there. And apparently accurate I’m afraid.
As far as this bill goes, you, like so many others, are lost in the weeds.
And, to use a worn out metaphor, you cannot see the forest for the trees.
We already have the form of Obamacare in my state. We also have the highest medical premiums in the country and the highest healthcare costs in the country. And Masshealth is now 1/3 of the state budget and growing.
This is what happens when you give an entitlement to people who are not paying into the system. The taxpayer gets left with the bill.
Doctor shortages could lead to rationing: won’t happen. Changes will be made to accommodate doctors
DREAM ON MY DEAR, DREAM ON-the doctors I know are closing out their practices-they want NO PART of this baloney
Even though they might neither need nor want that insurance - nice friend of liberty you make. It's apparently ok with you to shaft half of the populace.
5. Four Million people will lose their employer-based plans: may be good since I want health insurance to be totally independent of employers.
Cancelling the tie between employers and health insurance is a reasonable position for a conservative, but the approach to tie it even tighter to the government than it was to the employer is not. It would have been a lot easier and cheaper to just give everybody or nobody the same tax status for insurance payments.
6. Medicare will cut services and costs: this has got to happen one way or another regardless of the new healthcare plan unless we’re to become a soggy welfare state.
Maybe Medicare needs to be cut because it's a financial nightmare, but how is that a reason to put every citizen into the same mess?
You are simple. On one side you are saying that Medicare needs to be cut because it don't have enough money for all, yet on the other side you are ok with a plan that forces insurance companies to have no limits on coverage. If government can't manage that, why do you think insurance companies can?
And then there's the criminal position of allowing folks to buy 'insurance' after the event. This just rips off the folks who bought insurance before the need and built up the insurance reserves. Once again, government punishes folks dumb enough to have saved or who otherwise actually prepared for the future.