I am definitely a supporter of Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) - h t t p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act
However, health care does not need to be reshaped and it amazes me to see how complicated the bill is. All they could have done was this: Effective immediately: Expand Medicaid eligibility; all individuals with income up to 133% of the poverty line qualify for coverage, including adults without dependent children. Just one statement.
And yes, this is in alignment with Franklin Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights:
The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the then President of the United States, during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. In his address Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize, and should now implement, a second "bill of rights". Roosevelt's argument was that the "political rights" guaranteed by the constitution and the Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness." Roosevelt's remedy was to declare an "economic bill of rights" which would guarantee:
Employment, with a living wage,
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies,
Housing,
Medical care,
Education, and,
Social security
h t t p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights
Have you read Why Obamacare Is Wrong For America, by Turner, Capretta, Miller and Moffit?
No?
How about the following:
1.Obamacare will collect more than $500 billion in new taxes and take $575 billion from Medicare over the next ten years.
a. Two new entitlements, plus a big Medicaid expansion, are created to reduce the number of uninsured, at a cost of at least $2.3 trillion- thats TRILLION- over the first ten years of full implementation.
2. With each passing year new taxes will be imposed. As disclosed on the attached chart from the
California Hospital Association:
2011: A 2.5% excise tax is imposed on pharmaceuticals. (This is part of the plan to pay for the
reform law.) This cost which will be in the billions of dollars - will be passed on to health care
providers, primarily hospitals, who already operate with very thin margins, and will be under
great financial pressure to raise their rates to pay for it, with resulting price pressure on health
insurance premiums.
2012: That excise tax increases to 3%.
2013: A separate 2.9% excise tax on medical devices will begin. The same pass-through will take
place, creating the same pressures on providers and on insurance premiums.
2014: An $8 billion fee on health insurance premiums kicks in. Obviously consumers will bear
this tax and their premiums will rise.
Because of all these costs, Obamacare is generally unsustainable. Here is one study that addresses that
issue:
Obamacare: The Real Price Tag is a Moving Target
3. As is usual for liberal-progressives, the element of coercion is an intrinsic twin to their intentions, and it remains so in Obamacare. Beginning in 2014, everyone will face a penalty if they dont purchase a health policy that meets the governments definition of a minimum essential level of health coverage. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, Section 1501.
a. It will be enforced by the IRS. Obamacare authorizes the hiring of 16,500 additional agents. the Joint Economic Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee minority staff estimates up to 16,500 new IRS personnel will be needed to collect, examine and audit new tax information mandated on families and small businesses in the reconciliation bill being taken up by the U.S. House of Representatives this weekend. ... 16,500 more IRS agents needed to enforce Obamacare | J.P. Freire | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner
So, if you intend to remain a suppoorter of Obamacare, be sure to remain ignorant of its implications.
Okay, I will.
More lives will be saved for the uninsured at the expense of those with lots of money.
Of course, your current post is almost as facetious as the original. But Im proud of you! Not only are you a fool, but you have the energy to let everyone know it!
1. As you have stated, I expect that you will be true to your word, and remain ignorant.
2. There is no basis on which "More lives will be saved..." as Obamacare neither increases the numbers of healthcare providers, nor can it accomplish its missions by rationing that care which is now available.
As usual from an Obamacare supporter, observations sans supporting evidence.