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Drawing back the curtain on Obamacare
“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it…”
~House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Ok, so what is in Obamacare?
At first glance, you can just begin to see the tangled swamp of bureaucracy which now stands between you and your doctor. Chief among them is the IRS, with all the power of the federal government to tax, harass, and imprison all who dare question their mandates.
Take a good look. Download the PDF, if you’d like, to get a closer look at all the grubby government fingers who will be in your pocket and in your healthcare. See if you can find yourself on the chart. See if you can find where your doctor fits into all this. As complex as it looks, this is only about a third of what has been spawned by the 2,000+ page bill that most in Congress never bothered to read before they forced it into law. Ed Morrissey rightly calls it “The Infinite Bureaucracy Act.”
You think you hate dealing with insurance companies now? Just wait ’till Obamacare sinks its claws into you.
Kevin Hassett penned an excellent article detailing some of the law’s most onerous details: [emphasis added]
The new law creates 68 grant programs, 47 bureaucratic entities, 29 demonstration or pilot programs, six regulatory systems, six compliance standards and two entitlements.Getting that massive enterprise up and running will be next to impossible. So Democrats streamlined the process by granting Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the authority to make judgments that can’t be challenged either administratively or through the courts.
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A sprawling, complex bureaucracy has been set up that will have almost absolute power to dictate terms for participating in the health-care system. That’s what the law does to government. What it does to you is worse.Based on the administration’s own numbers, as many as 117 million people might have to change their health plans by 2013 as their employer-provided coverage loses its grandfathered status and becomes subject to the new Obamacare mandates. [This means YOU, sunshine. –FMP]
Those mandates also might make your health care more expensive. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that premiums for a small number of families who buy their insurance privately will rise by as much as $2,100.
The central Obamacare mechanism for increasing insurance coverage is an expansion of the Medicaid program. Of the 30 million new people covered, 16 million will be enrolled in Medicaid. And you could end up in the program whether you want it or not. The bill states that people who apply for coverage through the new exchanges or who apply for premium-subsidy credits will automatically be enrolled in Medicaid if they qualify.
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To pay for this expansion, the bill takes $529 billion from Medicare, with roughly 39 percent of the cut coming from the Medicare Advantage program. This represents a large transfer of resources, sacrificing the care of the elderly in order to increase the Medicaid rolls.
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Front and center among the new taxes is the 40 percent excise tax on those lucky people with so-called Cadillac health plans. The higher insurance costs that are driven by the government mandates will push many more ordinary plans into Cadillac territory. [Of course, this won't apply to Congress, since they exempted themselves from the legislation they're forcing on the rest of us. How's that hope & change working out for ya? –FMP]If the idea of taxing people with coverage deemed too good doesn’t bother you, maybe the new 3.8 percent tax on investment income will. That will apply even to a small number of home sales, those that generate $250,000 in profit for an individual or $500,000 for a married couple.
Is this really the change you wanted? If so, I’ve got some tar & feathers with your name on ‘em. And a one-way ticket to Cuba.
The longer these Democrats are ensconced in Washington, the more I’m convinced they’re using Orwell’s 1984 as their playbook.
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
The deck has been stacked against the rule of law by Democrats who have willfully ignored the will of the people. But we can still push back against this unconstitutional expansion of government power: REPEAL OBAMACARE!
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
