The 47 Million Uninsured
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The article is from Fortune Magazine. (H/T Legal Insurrection)
It explains why health care is so expensive when government regulates it.
There are 5 points in the article, let’s look at the first one.
Excerpt, showing the quality of the article:
The bills in both houses require that Americans purchase insurance through “qualified” plans offered by health-care “exchanges” that would be set up in each state. The rub is that the plans can’t really compete based on what they offer. The reason: The federal government will impose a minimum list of benefits that each plan is required to offer.
Today, many states require these “standard benefits packages” — and they’re a major cause for the rise in health-care costs. Every group, from chiropractors to alcohol-abuse counselors, do lobbying to get included. Connecticut, for example, requires reimbursement for hair transplants, hearing aids, and in vitro fertilization.
The Senate bill would require coverage for prescription drugs, mental-health benefits, and substance-abuse services. It also requires policies to insure “children” until the age of 26. That’s just the starting list. The bills would allow the Department of Health and Human Services to add to the list of required benefits, based on recommendations from a committee of experts. Americans, therefore, wouldn’t even know what’s in their plans and what they’re required to pay for, directly or indirectly, until after the bills become law.
You will not be able to save money under Obama’s plan by choosing to live clean. This bill is a massive transfer of wealth from the productive to the non-productive. It does NOTHING to reduce the costs of health care so that everyone, rich or poor, can pay their own way.
The other four points are:
- All patients will pay the similar rates, regardless of their lifestyle and choices
- Patients will be barred from purchasing catastrophic care alone, as with Health Savings Accounts
- Many patients covered through their employers will be dumped into the public option plan
- Patients will not be able to choose their own doctors, and care will be rationed
PLEASE READ IT AND SEND IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
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During last week’s presser, the POTUS in one breath said that currently run government medical programs are the biggest cause of our national debt and that the government taking over all of medical care in the US would solve that debt problem:
“And it’s about the fact that the biggest driving force behind our federal deficit is the skyrocketing cost of Medicare and Medicaid.
So let me be clear: If we do not control these costs, we will not be able to control our deficit. If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket. ”
In 2004, Obama derided Bush for trying to push legislation through congress without time to reflect and debate upon it:
BARACK OBAMA: …When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what’s in them and nobody has read them.
RANDI RHODES: 14 pounds it was!
BARACK OBAMA: Yeah. And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen. And I think that this is in some ways what happened to the Patriot Act. I mean you remember that there was no real debate about that. It was so quick after 9/11 that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration.
Our POTUS is confused and hypocritical.
If it doesn’t scare you, you’re just not paying attention.