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CONGRESS VOTES TO SOCIALIZE HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES
CNS NEWS.com ^ | Monday, March 22, 2010 | By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
Posted on March 22, 2010 1:44:50 AM PDT by Cindy
“Congress Votes to Socialize Health Care in United States” Monday, March 22, 2010 By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
SNIPPET: “According to the CBO, by 2016, the cheapest family health care plan that Americans will be required to buy under the law will cost $12,000 per year. The average family plan will cost $15,200. A family of four making $88,201 per year—or more than 400 percent of the poverty level—will not receive any federal subsidy to purchase such a plan. They will pay taxes, however, to subsidize the health care purchases of people earning less than 400 percent of poverty.
According to the Treasury Department the Medicare system faced about $37 trillion in unfunded liabilities before Sunday’s bill was passed.”
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The Doctors of the House
The Wall St Journal ^ | Mar 22, 2010 | editorial
Posted on March 22, 2010 1:53:12 AM PDT by The Raven
House Democrats last night passed President Obama’s federal takeover of the U.S. health-care system, and the ticker tape media parade is already underway. So this hour of liberal political victory is a good time to adapt the “Pottery Barn” rule that Colin Powell once invoked on Iraq: You break it, you own it.
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We have never understood why pro-lifers consider abortion funding more morally significant than the rationing of care for cancer patients or at the end of life that will inevitably result from this bill. But in any case Democratic pro-lifers sold themselves for a song, as they usually do.
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While the passage of ObamaCare marks a liberal triumph, its impact will play out over many years. We fought this bill so vigorously because we have studied government health care in other countries, and the results include much higher taxes, slower economic growth and worse medical care. As for the politics, the first verdict arrives in November.
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>> The average family plan will cost $15,200 ... will not receive any federal subsidy to purchase such a plan.
And can we also assume that’s not deductible?
The net on this fiasco will be more government jobs, fewer liberties, and lower quality of health care.