Obama’s Health Care Plan: Holes and Deceptions or Options and Reform?
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With health care rising to crisis management status, the need for real reform has taken a back seat to compromise and hidden agendas.
The recent flap about President Obama’s health care proposals has now taken a very ominous turn because of the President’s double talk on a key element. Unlike the Joe Wilson incident where the Congressmen rudely yelled out “You Lie.” at Obama when the President said his health bill does not covering illegals in this country (it does not), the Commander in Chief spoke of a mandatory statute in the bill that requires U.S. citizens to have health insurance. Barack Obama stated that this mandate was not considered a tax. Unfortunately there is not other way to say it – “You Lie!”.
When a provision is written that requires a person to have something and then fines them for not having that item and the fines are to be collected by the Internal Revenue Service, there isn’t any room for argument. It’s a tax.
Semantics aside, and there will be all manner of spin to try and call this type of forced health care not a tax, anytime a government levee’s a demand for money it’s a tax. Taxes by the government are nothing new and nothing to be ashamed of. We pay taxes for all kinds of services that the government should run. Interstate roads, military, sewage and many other vital public services. Anytime someone wants the government to do something it means one thing – taxes. There is no way around it and that’s OK because if the people have a need for something on a grand scale, and universal health care is the grandest, then it needs to be paid for by the people.
There is nothing wrong with asking all the people to share in the burden of providing decent health care for the country but it’s a shame and a sham to have to hide the fact. It is also dishonest to try and mollify the population into thinking a forced purchase, one that has a penalty for non-compliance, is something other than what it is – it’s a tax.
Perhaps the real question should be -”How does a person who makes no money afford this medical insurance?” And if they can’t afford the insurance and get fined (taxed) for not having the mandated insurance, what happens to them when they can’t pay the fee? Will the IRS come and seize what little possessions they have as compensation? Will the IRS set up an installment plan much like what they do when you have to pay back taxes and can’t handle the whole bill?
Or will the government arrest those that can’t afford the mandated health insurance and cart them off to jail? Well at least there we can get free medical care, such as it is.
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All good points, but the scariest thing is that if you look at other states with national healthcare- UK, Canada, etc… It simply doesn’t work. Sure, everyone has a “get in free” card, but the problem is getting in. People wait years to see specialist, over 24 hours in the emergency room…then up to days for a hospital bed, small towns do not even have a local MD, people travel hours to get to a level one trauma center by ambulance because there isn’t air transport, the cost of a treatment is weighed up to the overall health and productivity of the individual in need, expensive treatments are deemed not medically “proven” or necessary by none other than gov. pd researchers, etc…………
As you say with the taxation aspect, at least let’s be honest about what we are getting!
National health care is perfectly fine for those that are “healthy,” but if you have an emergency care need, chronic care need, are elderly, or have a disease that is too expensive to treat…… you are screwed.