I came across this little tidbit of information this morning and I’m a little dumbfounded.
The Bill that will now face a “debate” on the Senate floor – affectionately known as ReidCare – is full of taxes and tricks. Fine…that’s what every partisan bill contains, how to help “our side.”
The Congressional Budget Office scored the bill and found some interesting things. They claim that the bill would actually reduce the Federal deficit over 10 years. OK, great… except that taxes begin in 2010 and spending (health care) doesn’t begin until 2014.
For us publicly educated folk, that’s a full fours years of taxes with no benefits. Need more explanation? OK. You collect ten years’ of paychecks, but only pay six years’ of bills. How would your bank account look at the end of ten years? Yup, surplus.
Whatever…that’s just accounting tricks that the government uses. Of course, if a corporation and their accounting firm did that, they would be thrown in jail. If you and I did that, we would lose our house and cars.
No…I am perplexed by the fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office, that 24 million people (legal and illegal) will still remain uninsured after 10 years. Right there on page 8 and 9 of the letter, and confirmed again in the facts and figures at the end. I’ve included the damning data below:
the devil in the details
Now, after the House passed PelosiCare…I pointed out that the atrocity would still leave 12 million (actual US citizens) uninsured. Toss in the illegals and you have 20 million uninsured.
So…let’s sum up. We are going to create dozens of new government bureaucracies, allow the government to interfere in every aspect of our lives, send us to jail for not having “acceptable” coverage, raise taxes on everyone not just the “rich,” shut down entire corporations that employ tens of thousands of people, and ration health care… and spend TRILLIONS of dollars.
For what? Getting insurance for, effectively, 20 million people who don’t have it now. Yeah, 45 million don’t have it now and many are already offered care under Medicaid and S-Chip or choose not to have insurance.
Using the most basic of common sense and logic, you can provide coverage and benefits to those who need it. All without creating massive government and spending money.
If there is so much corruption, fraud, and waste in Medicaid…why not just clean that up? Does it really require a complete overhaul of 1/6 of our economy?
What are the provisions in Obama-Reid-Pelosi-Care that actually enforce and protect against fraud and corruption in government health care?
If the insurance companies are so evil, why not just change the rules and then subsidize the extreme cases? It doesn’t require this much government interference.
This entire debacle is NOT about providing health care. It is a power grab…pure and simple.
If you honestly believe otherwise, prove I am wrong.
Here’s the full letter from the CBO to dingy Harry Reid. (pdf will open)
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