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- jybravo70, on 07/01/2009, -4/+9I know many will only comment on the title, but you have to read the content to know what is really going on. Go ahead, if you can vote for this tyrant and his party and not get upset when they pass a 1201 page energy bill that will destroy our income generation for business and citizens in 12 hours then you can take 5 minutes to read this article
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Lie #1: No one will be compelled to buy coverage - Yet now, Obama is behaving as if he said never a hostile word about the mandate. Earlier this month, in a letter to Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., he blithely declared that he was all for "making every American responsible for having health insurance coverage, and making employers share in the cost."
Lie #2: No new taxes on employer benefits - Yet now Obama is signaling his willingness to go along with a far worse scheme to tax employer-sponsored benefits to fund the $1.6 trillion or so it will cost to provide universal coverage. Contrary to Obama's allegations, McCain's plan did not ultimately entail a net tax increase because he intended to return to individuals whatever money was raised by scrapping the tax deduction. Not so with Obama.
Lie #3: Government can control rising health care costs better than the private sector - Ignoring the reality that Medicare--the government-funded program for the elderly--has put the country on the path to fiscal ruin, Obama wants to model a government insurance plan--the so-called "public option"--after Medicare in order to control the country's rising health care costs. the Congressional Budget Office analysis last year chastised Medicare's lax attitude on this front. "The traditional fee-for-service Medicare program does relatively little to manage benefits, which tends to reduce its administrative costs but may raise its overall spending relative to a more tightly managed approach," it noted on page 93 of its extensive report on funding waste of the system.
Lie #4: A public plan won't be a Trojan horse for a single-payer monopoly - Obama has repeatedly claimed that forcing private plans to compete with a public plan will simply "keep them honest" and give patients more options--not lead to a full-blown, Canadian-style, single-payer monopoly. Any public plan modeled after Medicare will greatly increase this forced subsidy, eventually driving private plans out of business, even if that weren't Obama's intention.
Lie #5: Patients don't have to fear rationing - Obama has been insisting, including during his ABC Town Hall event last week, that the rationing patients would face under a government-run system wouldn't be any more draconian than what they currently confront under private plans. This is complete nonsense. Genuine rationing occurs when someone else controls access--how much of a particular good one can consume. Obama's stimulus bill commits over $1 billion to conduct comparative effectiveness research that will evaluate the relative merits of various treatments. A board will then "direct financing" toward approved, standardized treatments. In short, doctors will find it much harder to prescribe newer or non-standard treatments not yet deemed effective by health care bureaucrats. - asgardshill, on 07/01/2009, -3/+4http://diggsandburies.blogspot.com/2009/07/daily-n ...
Buried for being blogspam. - Kipu2021, on 07/01/2009, -1/+2Despite voting for Obama, the article description made me laugh.
- LouisCipher777, on 07/01/2009, -3/+2buried for being an annoying moron.
you linked to a website that links back to this page.... good job.
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and i'm sure Forbes.com is "blogspam"
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