Now onto our regularly scheduled rant against the Obama regime, as it turns out HHS Secretary and former Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius hid this report from the Medicare Actuary about Obamacare raising costs instead of the promised decreasing costs.
"The reason we were given was that they did not want to influence the vote," says an HHS source. HHhmmmm, didn't want to influence the vote against this terrible Obamagenda of gobbling up or taking over private industry. I read this last night and I really felt physically ill that this was crucial information that would have swayed many votes against this horrible bill.
Want to know what's in the report without clicking over to it to read a lot of legaleze? Here is the link to an article and summary.
Here is the summary of the report that Kathleen Sebelius HID from everyone! I want to make that clear, she HID an important report that would have stopped Obamacare.
Grace-Marie Turner of National Review Online summarizes the report that Sebelius buried until after the Obamacare vote:
1. People losing coverage: About 14 million people will lose their employer coverage by 2019, as smaller employers terminate their plans and workers who currently have employer coverage enroll in Medicaid. Half of all seniors on Medicare Advantage could lose their coverage and the extra benefits the plans offer.
2. Huge fines for companies: Businesses will pay $87 billion in penalties in the first five years after the fines trigger in 2014, partly because they can’t afford to offer expensive, government-mandated coverage and partly because some of their employees will apply for taxpayer-subsidized insurance.
3. Higher costs for consumers: Tens of billions of dollars in new fees and excise taxes will be “passed through to health consumers in the form of higher drug and devices prices and higher premiums,” according to Foster. A separate report shows small businesses will be hit hardest.
4. A program created to fail: The new “CLASS Act” long-term-care insurance program will face “a significant risk of failure,” according to Foster. Indeed, he finds, “there is a very serious risk that the problem of adverse selection will make the CLASS program unsustainable.”
5. Spending increases: Under the new law, national health spending will increase by $311 billion over the coming decade. And instead of bending the federal spending curve down, it will move it upward “by a net total of $251 billion” over the next decade.
6. “Free-riders”: An estimated 23 million people will remain uninsured in 2019, roughly 5 million of whom would be undocumented aliens; the remainder would be the 18 million who decline to get coverage and who will pay the penalty.
7. Spending reductions are fiction: Estimated reductions in the growth rate of health spending “may not be fully achievable” because “Medicare productivity adjustments could become unsustainable even within the next ten years, and over time the reductions in the scope of employer-sponsored health insurance could also become an issue.”
8. You can’t keep your doctor: Fifteen percent of all hospitals, nursing homes, and other providers treating Medicare patients could be operating at a loss by 2019, which will “possibly jeopardize access to care for beneficiaries.” Doctors are threatening to drop out of Medicare because cuts in Medicare reimbursement rates mean they can’t even cover their costs.
9. Coverage but no care: A significant portion of those newly eligible for Medicaid will have trouble finding physicians who will see them, and the increased demand for Medicaid services could be difficult to meet.
This is an objective report by administration actuaries that shows this sweeping legislation has serious, serious problems.
And there’s more: Joint Economic Committee Republicans explain in a new report the impact of a rarely mentioned $14.3 billion per year tax on health insurance, effective in 2014. They find this tax will be mostly passed through to consumers in the form of higher premiums for private coverage. It will cost the typical family of four with job-based coverage an additional $1,000 a year in higher premiums and will fall largely, and inequitably, on small businesses and their employees.
Ok, now that you are awake and hopefully riled up this morning I want to hit you upside the head with this revelation. Obamacare will RATION your health care, this is plainly admitted by Peter Orszag. Google him to find out who he is.
He clearly states that there will be an Independent Payment Advisory Board established to push efficiency over quantity. I was going to add in the world quality as Mr. Orszag uses but everyone knows that that just doesn't exist in a government run program. This will place a panel of bureaucrats between you and your doctor's decision to treat you.
The IPAB will have more power than literally Congress over health care matters and can ONLY be held accountable by a vote of sixty seven votes in the Senate. That's more than a super majority, it is a super super majority. It is difficult enough to reach the sixty vote magic number (well hopefully until November comes around) but sixty seven is improbable in the least.
This bill was evil, it is evil, it must be repealed before it does more damage that can't be undone. The way the Obama regime has railroaded this debate was of Maoist proportions.
If I wasn't loud enough before and got your attention maybe this will wake you up out of your liberal induced Kool-Aid Obamacoma. There is the plan that Congress has set aside for itself and then the plan for you, me, and everyone else: Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green, or Libertarian. We are all in one boat of the non-elite together, remember that. There is the ruling elite and then everyone else and you and I, your neighbor, your friend, your mom and dad are everyone else.
If you were wanting a free ride, Medicare for all, and free health care provided by Obama and his taxes on successful people, think again. Nothing like that exists despite his promises and assurances. Health care costs can be brought down by market forces and be made competitive like any other product if a different path is followed.
The path Obama has set us upon is a path towards financial ruin and the dissolution of our nation if not sovereignty. This man cannot be voted out of office soon enough, we are currently witnessing Jimmy Carter: The Sequel.
Our country is now set upon dangerous ground, ground we have never tread before. It will take the next President eight years to undo the damage that was started in 1913 but escalated to new proportions in the last year. Obama has fulfilled the progressive's dream of Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and LBJ all rolled into one in less than two years.
Wake up America and vote this regime into retirement at every turn.
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