Disastrous Healthcare Reform Bill
By the left
Tell your U.S. Representative that you OPPOSE this absolutely unaffordable government takeover of healthcare!
Here’s the preview:
· The House of Representatives is expected to vote as early as this Friday on H.R. 3962,
Under the new, cleverly deceptive name “Affordable Health Care for America Act.
· The prior name and just over 1,000 pages pissed off many constituents resulting in the infamous August Town Hall Meetings.
· But alas; Speaker Pelosi wasn’t done yet. Her latest creation is just under 2,000 pages of regulatory and fiscal nightmares.
· H.R. 3962 poses a fundamental threat not only to our nation’s and your own financial health and prosperity, but to every American’s individual liberties and right to free choice!
· According to an initial estimate by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), H.R. 3962 will cost our country a minimum of $894 billion over 10 years.
· Robert Pear of The New York Times reported on October 30, “By the most commonly used yardstick, the bill would cost $1.05 trillion over 10 years.”
· Historically, healthcare programs have cost more than predicted -- in 1990 Medicare spending was nearly 10 times what was originally estimated in 1967 -- and this is the biggest healthcare plan in history.
· By the way, President Obama has said that his healthcare “reform” will cut costs in the long run, but CBO’s preliminary analysis of H.R. 3962 found that the bill would bend the federal cost curve for healthcare UP, not down.
· Of course HR 3962 is clearly not PresBO’s. Where is his reform? Oh yeah, it’s transparent.
· Seriously, America cannot afford even the minimum price tag for Speaker Pelosi’s healthcare scheme when the federal deficit stands at an all-time record and the national debt is projected to nearly double over the next 10 years.
· H.R. 3962 would also inflict a whole host of new taxes and costly mandates on individuals and businesses as American families struggle to make ends meet and unemployment approaches double digits.
· For example, the bill would impose an individual mandate tax of up to 2.5 percent of income on individuals earning as little as $9,350 who do not purchase “acceptable health care coverage.”
· The National Federation of Independent Business estimates that the employer mandate in H.R. 3962 will disproportionately affect small businesses, triggering up to 1.6 million lost jobs.
· The direct impact on families of all the new rules, regulations, and tax increases will be an additional $500 per year in the cost of insurance.
· Now if you ever had a reason to get your thong in a wad here are consider this:
o The financial burdens of this healthcare plan to our government, which is us, the tax payers, and the costs to American businesses, and our economy aren’t even the worst of it.
o The most dangerous part of Speaker Pelosi’s healthcare “reform” bill is that it paves the way to a complete government takeover of healthcare in this country that will dramatically expand the size of government; allow bureaucrats and politicians to dictate your choice of doctors, treatments, and medicines; and ration quality care to control costs.
o It also expands Medicaid to all individuals with incomes below 150 percent of the federal poverty level, an estimated 10 million Americans.
o President Obama has repeatedly vowed that "if you like your health plan, you can keep it,” but the so-called “public health insurance option” that Speaker Pelosi included in her bill at the urging of her pro-socialized medicine backers will quickly undermine private insurance by undercutting its costs.
o A study earlier this year by The Lewin Group, a respected economics consulting firm, projected that 83.4 million Americans would lose the private coverage they have today if a “public option” becomes law.
o On top of everything else, Speaker Pelosi proposes to pay, at least in part, for this government takeover of healthcare with massive cuts to Medicare.
o Those include more than $170 billion in cuts to Medicare Advantage Plans that will gut the program, forcing the more than 10 million seniors who opt for it back into traditional fee-for-service Medicare, which has higher out-of-pocket expenses. Make no mistake. With these cuts to Medicare coming as the Baby Boomers are retiring and the program is facing bankruptcy in just seven years, seniors will be the first to experience rationing and a decline in their quality of care!
o The goal of Speaker Pelosi and her pro-socialized medicine backers, including PresBO who specifically said so, is clear: to put all Americans under a single-payer, government-run healthcare system, like those in Canada and Great Britain, that will dictate our choice of doctors, treatments, and medicines and ration the care we can receive
· If we don’t succeed in blocking this very dangerous government takeover of our healthcare, you and I and all Americans will have no choice but to live under the mandates, restrictions, and rationing that federal bureaucrats and politicians in Washington will impose to curb costs.. Help us stop them!
It’s so crucially important that you tell your U.S. Representative to vote NO on H.R. 3962. Tell your U.S. Representative today to vote NO on this costly and dangerous government takeover of healthcare.
P.S. If you’re still not convinced that the real goal of Speaker Pelosi’s healthcare legislation is to force all Americans into a one-size-fits-all, government-run and rationed healthcare system, heed the words of Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who said: “I think if we get a good public option, it could lead to single payer. And that’s the best way to get to single payer.” Please tell your U.S. Representative that America cannot afford and you do not want Speaker Pelosi’s misguided vision of healthcare “reform.”
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mcmodified version of an original of this that was an email from CAGW Citizens Against Government Waste
President Thomas A. Schatz
