Obama’s Health Care “Magic”

by Doug on July 22, 2009 · 2 comments

in Big Government,Health Care

Obama would make a great sleight-of-hand magician! In one hand he holds up Applehood and mother pie and fixes his visionary gaze on it to distract us, while with the busy hand he gives us all wedgies!

In the case of healthcare, the distracting hand says “We must have affordable healthcare for all Americans”, while the busy hand delivers:

  • Huge unfunded mandates for individuals and employers
  • Trillions in unspecified taxes and huge deficit increases
  • Huge loss of jobs as employers must provide heath insurance or pay an 8% tax. (8% would put many small businesses that are struggling along in this bizarre economy out of business and would certainly provide incentives to cut back on jobs) New Healthcare Bill Will Kill Jobs, Burden Small Business
    • Too Old For Cancer Treatment

    Too Old For Cancer Treatment

  • Denial of care for responsible seniors and disabled folks who have paid healthcare bills for others their whole working careers, just when they need it most. “Suck it up and suffer! You are not worth the cost of the care you need!”
  • Long lines ala Canada and UK for healthcare for all Americans. Examples: 14% wait more than a year for treatment after referrals in the UK, 59% wait between 18 and 52 weeks. In Canada the average wait for an MRI is 90 Days. 830,000 Canadians are currently waiting to be admitted to a hospital or to get treatment. In England, the list tops 1.8 million.
  • Dramatic decreases in survival rates for many serious illnesses. Example: Prostate cancer survival rate: US 81% UK 43%.
  • Americans will be FORCED to fund abortions regardless of their convictions. “Blood Money to Kill the Unborn in Healthcare Bill”

This list could continue until it is boring!

In addition to the above sleight of mouth deception there are some serious questions that we have no answers for:

  • Who will have the authority to decide who among us is too old or too infirm to warrant healthcare treatment?
  • What other criteria will creep into these life or death decisions? Race? Religion? Political leanings? Perceived value or lack of same to society? Wealth? Political contributions? Relationships? Prejudices?
  • How long will it take to go from withholding care from selected citizens who are deemed to be not worth the cost of the care to outright euthanasia?

America! Gather your wits! Go see a clever sleight-of-hand magician if you like, but please, do not fall for this unforgivable deception! There are many things we can do to make healthcare more affordable, but getting the government more involved is not one of them! Health Care Lunacy!

Let’s not add this LUNACY to the terrible legacy we have already built for our posterity!



You can track the healthcare bill here: H.R.3200: America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

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In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

Tagged as: Government Run Healthcare, H.R.3200: America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, Health Care, Obamacare, Universal Health Care

{ 2 comments }

Matt July 23, 2009 at 8:35 am

Betsy McCaughey, Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former lieutenant governor of New York state, has written a great article for the Wall Street Journal about how the Health Care bill will “will reduce access to care, pressure the elderly to end their lives prematurely, and doom baby boomers to painful later years.”

…Driving these cuts is the misconception that preventative care can eliminate sickness. As President Obama said in a speech to the American Medical Association: “We have to avoid illness and disease in the first place.” That would make sense if most diseases were preventable. But the two most prevalent diseases of aging—cancer and heart disease—are largely caused by genetics and their occurrence increases with age. Your risk of being diagnosed with cancer doubles from age 50 to 60, according to the National Cancer Institute.

The House bill shifts resources from specialty medicine to primary care based on the misconception that Americans overuse specialist care and drive up costs in the process (pp. 660-686). In fact, heart-disease patients treated by generalists instead of specialists are often misdiagnosed and treated incorrectly. They are readmitted to the hospital more frequently, and die sooner.

http://thupidity.com/2009/07/23/healthcare/government-run-healthcares-assault-on-seniors/

Matt July 23, 2009 at 9:45 am

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/23/years-health-care-coverage-costs-turn-unfunded-mandate/

Here’s an exerpt:

President Obama says he will not sign a health care reform bill that adds to the deficit but GOP number-crunchers argue he will do just that if House Democrats continue their sleight-of-hand in calculating the long-term costs of their proposal.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the proposal now under consideration will cost over 10 years a little more than $1 trillion, depending on the final deal. House Democrats have vowed to find a way to pay for that cost despite an acknowledgement by a Congressional Budget Office official that the deficit will increase $239 billion because of Medicare payments to doctors.

But fully phased-in coverage of Americans under the plan will only occur for six of the 10 years measured by the CBO. That’s because the Democratic plan in the House will start collecting revenues in 2011 but won’t start providing coverage until 2013 and won’t be fully implemented until 2015.

According to an analysis by Republican staff of the House Ways and Means panel, the deficit from the health care reform bill would be $760 billion by 2024, the end of the first 10 years of full benefits coverage. It would be $1.6 trillion by the end of the 2020s.

The Republican projection takes the CBO estimates beyond the 10 years the agency is restricted by law from projecting and shows that while the program will cost about $1 trillion between 2011 and 2019, it will cost $2.2 trillion between 2015 and 2024, not counting offsets to reduce the cost.

Put another way, by 2019 the House proposals will be adding $65 billion a year to the deficit, even with all the revenue raisers Democrats are now proposing. The amount of deficit spending will continue to increase after 2019, which would mean Congress is creating another entitlement.

Another congressional source said deficits are “substantial and persistent.”

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