Democrat Health Care Plan Set to Eat the Rich
Our government leaders continue to throw more fuel onto the fire that is engulfing our country. Pelosi and her band of merry Robin Hoods are hurrying their health care bill through the hallowed halls of the House of Representatives before they break for summer vacation. Do you value your freedom? No? Good because this bill continues the oppression that our government seems bent on providing to its citizens.
From the 5 Min Forecast:
Under the proposed bill, a 1% tax hike on couples earning over $350,000 would raise an estimated $500 billion over the next decade — barely half the total cost of the program. Those taxes would help finance subsidized health care for the lower class, for which enrollment would be mandatory (or risk being fined)
Read that again. Enrollment will be mandatory. Are you kidding me? The nanny state is now complete!!! Feeling smug that you aren’t having to pay for it? Glad the rich will be asked to pay for everyone’s health care? I don’t make nowhere near $350K and I find this appalling in so many ways. Immoral and unethical comes to mind.
The rich are/were the only ones in this country with the money to spend. The government does not know how to stimulate. Pelosi’s stimulus plan is a joke. Maybe if we give incentives to the rich, the small businesses to hire and spend then we’d get out of this economic mess. Nooooo. The government is going to eat the very ones that could help us economically. They are going to make the rich and small businesses pay for yet another entitlement program at a time we can least afford it?
But that money — had it not been confiscated — wouldn’t have disappeared. It would have been put to work in one way or another — added to the nation’s capital formation, lent to the government, used to buy a new car or take a vacation. Instead, it is to be sucked out of the benefits of the willing economy and used to give people something they couldn’t afford or didn’t want to pay for themselves.
And of course the rich can only pay for half of the cost. Wonder where these asshats are going to get the rest of the money? Maybe they’ll borrow it. We seem not to give a shit about that anymore. Our deficit now stands at a record 1.1 trillion dollars today. Why does that not bother anyone? This is debt that you people and your children and grandchildren will be paying off for the rest of all our lives.
The government doesn’t care. You voted these shitheads in to office. They know none of us will do anything about this. It’s insane. We should be marching in the streets. Guess we’ll save the demonstrations for the next basketball championship. The next election that comes around people will say to “vote the bums out” yet they’ll still vote their asshat back into office. This country is burning. Folks better start waking up before it is truly too late to turn back.
heyteach on July 15th, 2009
Thought you might appreciate this comprehensive, conservative health care reform plan that gets the government OUT of health care without sacrificing the most vulnearable.
FREE and FAIR Health Care Reform—A Choice Worth Voting FOR
Reform problems of existing government programs which are bankrupting us all.
It rolls Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP into one uniform State Medical Insurance (SMI) plan in all 50 states. Any legal resident may choose to enroll in this program of catastrophic care insurance with a plus. The plus is a physical, extensiveness of which is determined by the physician based on his patient’s needs, along with a follow up visit for a modest co-pay. As an added financial protection, one necessary ER visit per year would be covered for a modest co-pay. Prescription medicine prices would be reduced based on negotiation and bulk buying. No fines, no employer mandates, and people may choose a private insurer instead of the State plan. They may cancel the insurance and may have multiple policies and switch between private and State plans at will.
The plan is means-tested so people pay their fair share in this program which pays for itself. Current Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and high-risk insurance pool funds would also be pulled into the plan. The charity designation for hospitals is eliminated and their state taxes go into the pool as well.
All providers are in the SMI database and their standardized charges, which they set, are listed. Provider discounts are eliminated. Providers are free to write off additional charges. States may add riders for additional coverage. There are no pre-existing conditions or caps on procedures. If the person’s catastrophic necessary medical expense limit is hit, the insurance covers necessary care.
Reform private insurance:
Private insurance continues and may be sold across state lines. Insurance commits to payment in advance of procedures so patients always know full financial liability. ERISA shield is abolished so all have equal protection of law. Tax credits enable private insurers to cover riskier enrollees and low-income individuals because ultimately the SMI is replaced by private plans.
Reduce governmental interference with health care options:
Barriers to creating specialty clinics, hospitals, and other innovative health centers will be eliminated. This will also reduce costs and allow physicians who invest in such centers to earn more income.
Private insurers will be able to offer insurance without mandated lists of treatment, tailoring plans to the desires of the market.
The number of physicians and nurses will be substantially increased without significant cost to the taxpayer and with rewards for those new PCPs and doctors serving in underserved areas.
http://www.modernconservative.com/freeandfair.php