Friday, January 31, 2014
Repealing Obamacare Is More Important than Controlling NSA or Balancing the Budget
You may think that Obamacare has left the front page and is ticking along like a government watch - slow and ubable to do its job accurately. But Republican Senator Tom Coburn, who has announced that he will not seek another term as Oklahoma's Senator in order to concentrate on curing his cancer, revealed Tuesday that his Obamacare insurance plan does not cover his cancer specialist, forcing him to pay out of pocket. Just the latest reminder of complications with the health law. The Oklahoma Senator briefly discussed his personal situation in an interview Tuesday morning. "I'm doing well from a health standpoint, got great docs and fortunately, even though my new coverage won't cover my specialists, I'm going to have great care and I have a great prognosis," he said. Politico has reported that Coburn's office confirmed his coverage was cut and he lost coverage for his oncologist. However, Coburn reportedly will pay out of pocket in order to keep seeing the specialist. Like other congressional lawmakers, Coburn, 65, was required to go on the Obamacare exchanges. Coburn's case is one of many hanging over the President. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are not letting the Obamacare issue die. Coburn also was one of three GOP lawmakers who on Monday unveiled a sweeping alternative proposal to the Affordable Care Act which would gut the law's mandates and taxes while preserving some consumer protections. "Americans deserve a real alternative, and a way out," Coburn said. Other congresspeople are also drawing attention to how the health care law has impacted coverage. Representative Marsha Blackburn, a Obamacare critic, took as her guest to the President's State of the Union Address on Tuesday a woman with lupus whose plan was canceled because Obamacare. The woman says in a new ad (aired by the conservative Americans for Prosperity) that she lost her prior coverage and now faces medical costs rising by more than $6,000 a year : "I'm worried about losing access to the doctors who have cared for me. President Obama, you broke your promise, and people like me got hurt," she said in the ad late last year. Obama tried to assuage the concerns of those losing coverage by allowing insurance companies to re-offer canceled plans. But not all states and companies have done that because their 2014 tariffs have already been set after public hearings and comment periods. And while the Obama administration has worked to address widespread technical problems that impeded the launch of health care exchanges in October, lawmakers are still voicing concerns about the financial stability of the system. One of these lawmakers, retiring Democratic Representative Jim Moran, says that he's "afraid that the millenials ... are less likely to sign up." Insurance companies are depending on these young and healthy customers to buy health insurance, to offset the cost of taking on older and sicker customers -- as required under the law. ~~~~~ Dear readers, Obama defends the law, arguing that it provides vital consumer protections - like barring insurers from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions. The administration also notes that enrollment has improved dramatically through the exchanges since the October launch. Yet Obama has given no indication of the age spread of these enrollees, however many they may be. And, for this reason, it is impossible to put a taxpayer price tag on Obamacare. It was estimated by rhe White House and Secretary Sebelius to add $900 million to federal health care costs. Given the major increase in enrollments already occurring in Medicaid, caused by Obamacare, some experts suggest that the real cost of Obamacare may approach $2.7 trillion. And public opinion polls continue to show that more than 60% of Americans oppose Obamacare, 90% of those who have used the website have had problems and 4.7 million Americans have had their coverage cancelled. In normal times prior to the Obama presidency, this catastrophe would not have happened. It is now the responsibility of Congress - Democrats and Republicans - to extricate America from this horror show that the amateur Barack Obama and his henchmen, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, got the country into. This is not politics as usual. It is critical for the future of all Americans.
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If Obamacare/Afordable Care Act is not TOTALY REPEALED (and soon) we will have jn this country the most hodge podge medical delivery system of any place that is not a third world country.
ReplyDeleteWe have in place now the original passed Obamacare, all the allowances given out by Obama, sections of the Bill being contested in various courts , States not adhering to the law at all, etc.
Obamacare is simply the result of Obama not knowing what he was doing, having incompetent administrators, lying beyond belief to us about his signature bill, a roll out/enrollment web site that was a white elephant, a bill passed by Congress that was read by what now appears to be NO ONE!
We spent nearly a billion dollars for the web site alone ...this act/bill is already taking us in a direct course to financial collapse .
As Casey Pops said "because if tariffs insurance companies and underwriters can not just revert back to our workable system of 2010 and say "we'll get back to you on that new policy." Neither can the President alter (in order to make it believable and functional) after the due process of voting on a specific bill with specific language in it.
ReplyDeleteI love the game if golf, but disagree with taking a "mulligan" because I hit a bad shot off the first tee. I play the next shot where the first one came to rest. Why? Because that's the rules.
ObamaCare was BAD LAW long before the Congress got it 2700 pages copy less than 36 hours before the vote was held by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
We were had by Mr. Snake Oil Salesmen and his Band of Merry Men. This Bill was never about better health care and health care delivery ... It was all about C O N T R O L, control over the economy.
The only solution for Obamacare is 100% repeal of it. No bits and pieces. No keeping this and get ride if that. It's all gone and we go back to what we had before Obamacare and fix what needs fix in that system.
ReplyDeleteWhen you can't afford coverage it makes it even more difficult.
ReplyDeleteThere has been, and continues to be, a concerted effort on the part of liberal politicians — who are encouraged by the media — to convince the American people that their health care system is the worst in the industrialized world, that doctors are to blame for high costs and that someone taking responsibility for their own health insurance is both selfish and somehow hurts the less fortunate. People are also supposed to believe opposition to government intervention that is designed to pick winners and losers implies they hate the poor or are racist and/or sexist. The truth is much simpler.
ReplyDeleteUnder the guise of fairness, our government is essentially implementing an agenda of central planning. Examples include the concerted globalization of our banking system through TARP, the subjugation of much of our military’s autonomy to the United Nations, the centralization of our public education system — first with the No Child Left Behind program and now with the Common Core Curriculum.
It has taken over 50 years, starting with adoption of Medicare (i.e., socialized medicine for seniors), notwithstanding the failure of Hillary Care, for government to take over American health care. While so many are distracted by the failure of the Obamacare web site, the first phase of Obamacare has already been successfully underway without much notice or outrage.
Obamacare has successfully begun to unravel the health care system as we know it. Since the law passed: Doctors have been closing independent private practices to become employees of hospitals, joining large groups or leaving medicine completely. Community hospitals have closed. Hospitals have grown into large systems that control the marketplace. Independent pharmacies have succumbed to the big chains that have systematically formed alliances with the medical insurance and pharmaceutical companies. There has been an expansion of the number and scope of practice for health care extenders such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants. This leads to frontline health care being driven by less experienced practitioners. Instead of concentrating on increasing the number of American medical students, there has been an increase in the outsourcing of medicine to foreign-trained physicians to provide care in the hospital setting.
The second phase is now coming into focus.
It’s not an accident that people are being thrown off their existing insurance. The perfect storm was created to achieve this goal: The out-of-pocket caps on cost for the individual were delayed; there is a 25 percent surcharge on so-called Cadillac health plans; and policies protected by the grandfather clause were never meant to stand up to the regulations and compliance written into the law.
The fact that it will be cheaper for an employer to now drop coverage and pay the fine should provide ample proof that the Cloward-Piven strategy is in play. Named after the radical sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, this is the idea of overwhelming the system to break it in order to rebuild it. The end result, however, is not Medicare for all — but actually a single-payer system set up as Medicaid for all. Once the patients are in this system, is there any doubt doctors will be next? The goal is collectivism, which allows the government to be the arbiter of what constitutes what is best for everyone, except the elite and their cronies. That is the ObamaCare endgame.
For a physician, not only will this mean the illegal restriction of trade, it will also mean the end of The Hippocratic Oath and the death of the doctor-patient relationship.
ReplyDeleteWhy pay trillions to cover so few people? Right or wrong, for or against you gotta look at the numbers. It would be much cheaper if we had just given the uninsured free healthcare and left the system alone as a whole.
Now we have nothing we want. Another example of why Govt shouldn't be looked to to solve social problems.
They have created a huge bureaucracy and turned our system upside down to insure a few.
Even if the American people wanted some changes to insurance companies policies about coverages for pre existing conditions. We don't want this stuff Govt run.
We don't want taxpayer money running another program we have to figure out how to pay for.
Stick to protecting the freedoms and security of this country and stop creating more burdens.
President Obama’s legacy may include a stake in the heart of a cherished dream of the progressive left: complete government control of healthcare in America.
ReplyDeleteObama has always wanted a single-payer, government-run healthcare system, and he set out a complicated but achievable path to get to that goal through Obamacare. The eventual failure of Obamacare would set the stage for single-payer healthcare.
Unfortunately for him, he designed Obamacare to fail in the wrong ways at the wrong times, making it harder, not easier to achieve his goal of completely socialized healthcare.
If Obamacare dies an early and spectacular failure, it will be at least another 100 years before the American people will consider government-run healthcare again. This is why Obama will fight tooth and nail to impose this lead balloon on the American people.
Obama’s progressive “fundamental transformation” of this country was to revolve around a single-payer, government run and controlled healthcare system. He realized that he would have to sell a Trojan Horse to the American people; America would not stand for an immediate and open takeover of 1/6th of the economy. He therefore planned to gradually ruin and demonize the private insurance industry until it was fully destroyed, leaving full government control as the only option.
Once Obama realized that he could never get full government control through Congress, he needed to find something that would get him to single payer healthcare as quickly as possible, and he did: the “public option.”
The public option meant that the government would offer insurance options that would compete with private sector plans. The government plans, without regard for making a profit, would offer insurance prices much lower than any company could offer, thereby sprinting to the ultimate goal of bankrupting all private insurers.
When Congress and the people would not accept this, Obama had to move to plan C: put restrictions and regulations on insurance companies that would force them to raise rates and reduce services, thus accomplishing the dual goals of destroying private insurance, and making the people rise up and beg the government for help and relief.
Obamacare was supposed to be so utterly complex as to hide the blame for all of its failures, therefore allowing the government and its partners in the mainstream media to place all of the blame on the private insurance companies, doctors, hospitals, technology firms, and anyone that does not work for the federal government. This is where Obama’s plan hit a brick wall, and it has been nothing short of glorious to watch.
The administration and its cronies argue that “Obamacare is not just a website.” This is absolutely false. The government is supposedly only involved to verify that insurers are offering government approved plans, so it does not sell a product. Government’s only role is to facilitate a deal between consumers and private insurers.
If Obamacare fails, so does the “fundamental transformation” of America that Obama predicted. Obama and the progressives and globalists have always fantasized about the eradication of American capitalism, and the quickest and fastest way to do so is to nationalize healthcare. At that point, government has a right to regulate any and every activity that affects or could affect the citizen’s health. After all, if it is government’s responsibility to take care of the sick, then government has an interest in those activities that could lead to sickness and injury.
Obamacare was never meant to be anything more than the wedge that was driven into out Governmental system and Constitution in order to destroy and then conquer.
ReplyDeleteObamacare was only intended to get as quickly as possible to a "Single Payer System" this would garish the Socialist chums of Obama with over 1/6th of the nations economy intially and in a short period total control of the full Economy.
With that in hand the rest of the tearing apart the Constitution and Bill of Rights would be child's play.
Wake up America Obama is after your children's life, your money, and everyone's ability to reach beyond their beginnings and grab their piece of the pie.
Obama wants to become our Imperial President for life and the more chaos that he and his Socialist administration can create in our daily lives the faster he thinks he can reach his goal.
The fallacy in his thinking is in our DNA as American and our history of independence, freedom loving for all, and our sense of right & wrong. We have gone thousands on miles and left many soldiers buried on foreign soil in order to support the welfare of "oppressed" people in their hour of need.
Obamacare was never meant to be anything more than the wedge that was driven into out Governmental system and Constitution in order to destroy and then conquer.
Obamacare was only intended to get as quickly as possible to a "Single Payer System" this would garish the Socialist chums of Obama with over 1/6th of the nations economy intially and in a short period total control of the full Economy.
With that in hand the rest of the tearing apart the Constitution and Bill of Rights would be child's play.
Wake up America Obama is after your children's life, your money, and everyone's ability to reach beyond their beginnings and grab their piece of the pie.
Obama wants to become our Imperial President for life and the more chaos that he and his Socialist administration can create in our daily lives the faster he thinks he can reach his goal.
The fallacy in his thinking is in our DNA as American and our history of independence, freedom loving for all, and our sense of right & wrong. We have gone thousands on miles and left many soldiers buried on foreign soil in order to support the welfare of "oppressed" people in their hour of need.
“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”
… Alexis de Tocqueville
From the conclusions of Alexis de Tocqueville in his observations about the young nation - America that he visited and wroye about in his book "Democracy in America"
ReplyDelete“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?
There are some nations in Europe whose inhabitants think of themselves in a sense as colonists, indifferent to the fate of the place they live in. The greatest changes occur in their country without their cooperation. They are not even aware of precisely what has taken place. They suspect it; they have heard of the event by chance. More than that, they are unconcerned with the fortunes of their village, the safety of their streets, the fate of their church and its vestry. They think that such things have nothing to do with them, that they belong to a powerful stranger called “the government.” They enjoy these goods as tenants, without a sense of ownership, and never give a thought to how they might be improved. They are so divorced from their own interests that even when their own security and that of their children is finally compromised, they do not seek to avert the danger themselves but cross their arms and wait for the nation as a whole to come to their aid. Yet as utterly as they sacrifice their own free will, they are no fonder of obedience than anyone else. They submit, it is true, to the whims of a clerk, but no sooner is force removed than they are glad to defy the law as a defeated enemy. Thus one finds them ever wavering between servitude and license.
When a nation has reached this point, it must either change its laws and mores or perish, for the well of public virtue has run dry: in such a place one no longer finds citizens but only subjects.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
Healthcare for everyone is fundamentally impossible, without drastic economic and social repercussions. It is a Utopian fantasy with no economic merit. It would be nice if we could add more stuff, increase quality AND reduce costs. But you can't. There's no such thing as equality in an individual society such as ours and this program is trying to pull us away from that. You can't stuff a society into a little box and tell them everybody should be able to pick from one of these plans. We're too diverse. I say yes to equal rights, but true equality as progressives seem to chase cannot exist when we have different skills, education, levels of motivation, values, incomes, social agendas, diets, health conditions, needs, wants, goals, religious aspirations, etc, etc.
ReplyDeleteCultural and social diversity is a GOOD thing. It inspires us to be great. It fosters innovation. America used to be known as a society where it was possible to "pursue" your dreams (not have them handed to you) and defeat the odds and go from nothing to a legacy.