Listen up, all you Obamacare-lovers out there.
For anyone over 65, “listen up” means remove all your preconceived biases and try to be objective. I know that for many Democrats,this is really difficult.
After all, you have finally fulfilled your lifelong dream, a liberal President in the White House, and socialized medicine for every American. What a combo! We may never recover.
We are paying an incredibly high price for your idealistic transgressions.
Supporting Obamacare through a series of unrealistic promises and actual distortions and lies,were rationalized as a necessary technique used to attain their “higher goal.”
Nancy Pelosi’s strategy (“We must pass Obamacare first and then we’ll find out what’s in it.”) actually was used to hide the contents of the Affordable Care Act!!
It never would have passed at all, if our elected officials did what any ethical elected official should do. Read the damn bill before they vote on it!
As the years go by, and we see the results of this catastrophe, it has become crystal clear to me that the only viable solution is to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something that at least remedies all of our health-care problems but without concurrently destroying the greatest healthcare system on the planet.
1 – After 3 years, the CBO now estimated that the cost of Obamacare has tripled compared with Obama’s promised initial cost.
2 – Instead of reducing health care costs, they actually rose!
3 – The CBO estimates that 31 million Americans will be without insurance 10 years from now.
4 – Medicaid costs have greatly increased. Patients now added to the expanded-Medicaid program,will be covered by State taxpayers instead of the federal government.
5 – The tax (penalty) paid by the uninsured, is not nearly enough to offset the mandatory new benefits.
6 – Everyone must pay for all services, even if they are never used or violate their religious beliefs.
7 – Medicare is still rapidly approaching bankruptcy.
8 – Doctors, in huge numbers, are opting out.
9 – The exchanges are still not working well.
10 – Government committees do decide which treatments are allowed and which patients are eligible to receive them.
Obamacare (socialized medicine) is rapidly imploding.
But what about Obama’s promise to lower private insurance premiums by $1,500 per family? Remember, that one?
Surprise, surprise!
They haven’t been reduced at all. In fact they have gone up every year. Here is a sample of the latest results just published in Newsday:
1 – in New York State alone, health insurance premiums rose 7.1 percent last year.
2- For small businesses (2-100 employees) premiums grew 9.8 percent statewide and 13.8 percent on Long Island !
3 – Empire HMO increased its premiums 17.46 percent!
4 – In the small business market, Emblem HIP increased its premiums 29.5 percent !
Premium reductions were never a realistic possibility. They knew it was a lie!
Someone has to pay for the subsidies.
The money has to come from somewhere. Either costs (medical services) have to be cut or premiums of those actually paying, must be increased. Or both !!!!
Either way, there is no such thing as “free healthcare.”
Dr. Stephen Morris
North Hills