Obamacareless
That health care "reform" they rammed through into law? Turns out it's not going to be so healthy. From the WashEx, a few revelations about Obamacare:
» Obamacare won't decrease health care costs for the government. According to Medicare's actuary, it will increase costs. The same is likely to happen for privately funded health care.» Obamacare won't allow employees or most small businesses to keep the coverage they have and like. By Obama's estimates, as many as 69 percent of employees, 80 percent of small businesses, and 64 percent of large businesses will be forced to change coverage, probably to more expensive plans.
» Obamacare will increase insurance premiums -- in some places, it already has. Insurers, suddenly forced to cover clients' children until age 26, have little choice but to raise premiums, and they attribute to Obamacare's mandates a 1 to 9 percent increase. Obama's only method of preventing massive rate increases so far has been to threaten insurers.
» Obamacare imposes a huge nonmedical tax compliance burden on small business. It will require them to mail IRS 1099 tax forms to every vendor from whom they make purchases of more than $600 in a year, with duplicate forms going to the Internal Revenue Service. Like so much else in the 2,500-page bill, our senators and representatives were apparently unaware of this when they passed the measure.
If you wonder why so many American voters are angry, and no longer give Obama the benefit of the doubt on a variety of issues, you need look no further than Obamacare, whose birthday gift to America might just be a GOP congressional majority.
Great! New, earmarking, spendthrift bums of a slightly different color! (And then there are the Libertarians, always running the mangiest dogs they can find.) And mostly to blame are the people, for being so gullible, complacent, apathetic, and just plain stupid and voting in such asshats.
They really fucked up when the extended the vote from property owners to every white guy of a certain age.
Is sad that the founders knew what would happen when people with no incentive to invest in america or themselves were given power over those who did.
Why the hell didnt their successors?
Why the hell do people who cant think their way out of a paper sack, balance their check book, or read at a grade school level get, let alone DESERVE, the right to decide who this nations leaders are?
Why do people who contribute nothing to society get to tell me how to live my life and how my money should be spent to finace their lazy asses?
lujlp at September 24, 2010 1:12 AM
These "revelations" are only a surprise to those morons who, at the time this monstrous power grab was enacted, swallowed Obama and the Democrats' sales pitch hook, line, and sinker. Those of us who still use our brains to think logically knew that you can't provide health insurance to millions of additional people, many with serious medical risks, without increasing costs.
The only alternative, given Obamacare's provisions, is to ration available care to everyone else. And just wait and see how people are going to react when that starts, as it inevitably will. Grab your seat and your popcorn. It'll be interesting as hell to watch.
cpabroker at September 24, 2010 4:24 AM
Vote anti-democrat, and get this thing defunded and repealed!
momof4 at September 24, 2010 5:33 AM
Anyone who votes for any Democrat is inviting a replay. Anyone who fails to vote invites more of the same. It is time to chase every politician who crammed this mess down our throats out of office.
Never again.
MarkD at September 24, 2010 6:48 AM
Well the last one is just stupid shit they'd thrown in once they realized that no one was actually going to read the legislation - probably about the same time that Pelosi announced this fact.
You know that it's gotten bad when the legislators openly admit that they can't comprehend what they're passing, so they're not going to bother to read it.
The funny thing is that we could have insured the uninsured much less expensively, and without such extensive involvement by the government in healthcare, if we simply extended medicaid to the 13 million working uninsured. That's the actual number of uninsured who are seeking insurance but fall into an income range where it's legitimately too expensive, as a proportion of income. The other 27 million that the media and activists always cite, to claim that 40 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE NO HEALTHCARE, are made up of non-citizens, young people who don't want insurance, and people who can afford it but don't purchase it.
Something tells me that it's the opportunity to control the application and delivery of health care that has motivated these people, not the mundane fact of providing people with medical insurance.
Raymond at September 24, 2010 7:29 AM
I'll bet the #1 vendor for 1099's is Costco... and I'll bet they will be able to tell us haw much all this costs to their bottom line.
the sad thing with the repeal is that this thing is seen as a monolithic heathcare thing: "but you CAN'T take their healthcare away NOW!!!111!"
I dun care about the healthcare part at the moment, it's all the other graft I have a problem with immediately. IF we were JUST arguing healthcare, that would be different. It's one thing, we can argue about that... but all these large bills have so much unrelated garbage in them... DADT repeal was shot down for completly unrelated resons, because the bill was full of unrelated stuff.
SwissArmyD at September 24, 2010 9:22 AM
Hey, here we go again!
Why should you pay for a service you don't get? Why should you pay other people - legions of office workers - to pass judgment on you and your activities and determine what your doctor can do for you? Why should you have to work for a big company or government agency to get help with medical expenses?
Radwaste at September 24, 2010 5:34 PM
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