- It has and will continue to increase the national debt.
- It will leave tens of millions of Americans still uninsured ten years from now.
- It has restricted overall economic growth.
- It raised taxes on all Americans in dozens of ways.
- It has reduced the job growth rate in this country.
- It has turned many full time workers into part time workers or into unemployed workers.
- It has generally increased the cost of health insurance, both premiums and deductibles, over what was available in the insurance market before it was passed.
- The Constitution was violated any number of times when the Obama administration unilaterally and illegally changed components of the law without the permission of Congress or the American people.
- The American people were lied to over and over, directly by the President and Democrats in Congress, on the negative ramifications of the law.
- It has caused millions of American to lose access to the current insurance policies they had.
- It has caused millions of Americans to lose access to their preferred doctors, preferred hospitals, and in many cases, current medicine treatments.
- It has likely increased the volume of people visiting hospital emergency rooms.
- It has caused thousands of doctors to retire early or change professions in order to not deal with the bureaucracy and idiocy of the law.
- It has exposed the inability of the Federal government and various state governments to develop, launch, and operate any kind of successful program.
- It has exposed millions of Americans’ personal financial information to identity thieves.
- It never addressed, and thus, never resolved, the root causes of our escalating health care costs in this country.
The disasters continue below and over the next few days.
1) Virginia news outlets reported on September 11, 2014 that a quarter of a million Virginians are about to lose their current health insurance coverage and policies because those policies “are not following the affordable care act [Obama Care] rules.”
Executive Director of Virginia Association of Health Plans, Doug Gray explained: “We’re not allowed to offer those plans anymore. So what we’re saying to them is, you need to move to one that’s compliant with the law because that’s what we can offer.”
According to a reporter, Alana Austin, “This goes back to that now heavily-criticized line we heard before Obama Care was put in place: ‘If you like your plan, you can keep it.’ Ultimately, that turned out not to be true for thousands of Virginians and companies in the commonwealth.”
The original article and video can be viewed at:
2) Stories like the following one are usually ignored in this blog, I usually chalk it up to hysteria and rumor mongering. But the fact that the story was covered on NBC News’ national telecast made me think that it might actually be true. NBC rarely reports on anything negative about the Obama administration so when they do report on anything negative about the Obama Presidency, it catches my eye.
NBC News recently predicted that by the year 2017, all Americans will be tagged with an embedded microchip somewhere in their body. They will be implanted to help identify individuals immediately. According to the news report, the technology’s purpose is to answer one simple question, “Am I who I say I am?”
Obviously, the chance of abuse and Big Brother-like tactics and oppression rises dramatically if the Federal government can track who and where you are. Fortunately, some state leaders agree with the very large downside of such an intrusive government effort. In some states, such as Virginia, state legislation is in development to stop this from happening.
The NBC News report also claims that an RFID Brain Chip has been developed and is currently being tested on several humans. They cite the proof of the RFID Microchip program in Obama Care by citing the part of the legislation calling for the program: It was reported that the use of Micro-Chips in Bill H.R. 4872 was located on Page 1014 under “National Medical Device Registry” it tells about a “Class II Device That is Implantable” and yes, they passed the bill.
Seems like an awfully large loss of freedom for such a small potential of upside in the worst piece of legislation ever passed. Details of the NBC report can be found at:
3) We go over a lot of statistics and a lot of overall realities when discussing the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care. But we also like to hear form ordinary Americans and how their lives are generally affected in a negative way by the legislation. Check out the following video on how some Americans, likely just like you and me, have been impacted by the law:
4) Over the past year or so we have seen the disaster that is veterans’ health care as administered by the Federal government’s Veterans Administration. High cost for low quality care that actually ended up costing an untold number of veterans their lives as a result of the government’s inability to operate an efficient health care system for veterans.
But the Veterans Administration is apparently not the only entity that has no clue how to operate an effective and efficient health care delivery system. According to a recent study implemented the City University of New York (CUNY) and the London School of Economics, a full 25% of the operating budget at U.S. hospitals goes for bureaucracy, double what hospitals spend in any other country around the world.
In the U.S., annual hospital administrative costs now top $667 per person. In comparison, the same spending comes out to only $158 per person in Canada, $164 in Scotland, $211 in Wales, $225 in England and $325 in the Netherlands. Because of varying methods of accounting, the researchers could not make comparable estimates for Germany or France. But they estimated that hospital administrative costs in Germany and France are about 40% less than in the U.S.
“We’re squandering $150 billion each year on hospital bureaucracy,” said researcher David Himmelstein, a professor at the CUNY/Hunter College School of Public Health and lecturer at Harvard Medical School. “And $300 billion more is wasted each year on insurance companies’ overhead and the paperwork they inflict on doctors.”
But with the advent of Obama Care, that overhead and paper work load is likely to get higher and higher. Resulting in higher and higher costs to operate a hospital, costs that the taxpayers and the economy eventually have to absorb.
Now, for complete disclosure, the researchers concluded that the answer to this overly expensive U.S. cost problem is for the Federal government to take over the entire domestic health care system, the so-called single payer system, to eliminate this problem. Of course the researchers ignore two major problems with their proposed solution:
1) Our Federal government has already tried that model with our veterans and all it did was kill them sooner at a very expensive rate.
2) The researchers fail to take into account the reality that citizens around the world living under a single payer system also suffer through long delays and postponements of life saving treatments in those countries, i.e. they suffer the same fate as our veterans under a single payer system. While their systems might have less expensive hospital costs, their quality of care is not very good at all under a single payer system.
The details of their research can be found at:
More bad news on the Obama Care front, just like every month around this time. And sadly, more of the same tomorrow.
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