Liberty MavenMore arguments against ObamaCare
May 13th, 2010 10:55 am | by Mike Miller | Published in Activism, Big Government, congress, DownsizeDC.org, Health Care, Liberty, Obama, Politics | 2 Responses
Obamacare is only a few weeks old, but the evidence against it is mounting with every passing day. A small portion of that evidence is described in the open letter to Congress provided below.
Please send Congress another letter demanding that they repeal the recently passed healthcare bill.
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Please take immediate action to repeal the recently passed healthcare bill. To understand just a few of the reasons why repeal is needed please read this column by Cato Institute scholar Michael Tanner: http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/health-246711-care-insurance.html
Here’s a partial summary . . .
A study by the RAND Corporation has now confirmed the warning Congress was given by the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) prior to passing the healthcare bill. Obamacare will do NOTHING to curb increases in insurance premiums. For example, RAND predicts that premiums will rise by 17% for young people.
A recent CBO report also predicts that up to 10 million workers will lose their current insurance under Obamacare, and will either have to buy new insurance through the government-run exchanges, or be forced into Medicaid.
Remember, President Obama and Congressional leaders promised us that none of us would lose our current coverage.
In addition, President Obama has criticized U.S. citizens for spending more on healthcare than any other people in the world, while also promising that Obamacare would reduce U.S. healthcare spending. But the federal government’s chief actuary, Richard Foster, is predicting that total healthcare spending will actually increase by $311 billion over the next 10 years.
Mr. Foster also doubts that the promised Medicare savings that Congress used to wrangle a good CBO spending score will really happen, but if they do happen then the likely result will be bankruptcy for up to 15% of U.S. hospitals!
Mr. Tanner’s column goes on to highlight CBO estimates about the tax increases and penalties Americans are projected to pay as a result of the healthcare bill.
But Mr. Tanner isn’t the only scholar digging into government reports to expose the true costs and dangers of the new healthcare law. The list of problems I’m sharing with you here could easily be longer, and is almost certain to grow more extensive as the months pass. How could it be otherwise . . .
Congress didn’t read the bill before passing it. This was completely irresponsible. But now that scholars are having time to do the reading that Congress should have done, the diagnosis is increasingly clear — the healthcare bill is a cancer, and REPEAL is the only remedy. Do it now.
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May 14th, 2010 at 2:23 am (#)
ObamaCare will prove to be problematic and create (most likely, like technological advances also) just as many problems as it may intend to address. It's the nature of problems for which we have no pragmatic solutions, and in the eyes of many means that we really do not have a health care issue / problem.
However, to the extent that either side of the aisle has a theoretical interest in improving the health of its citizens and the health care provided, it is necessary to recognize two very fundamental issues:
1) The politicalization of the issue, or utilization of an ideological approach, will not result in an effective solution, because most human beings are not sufficiently self-motivated to pursue optimal health. It's just not going to happen, and an ideological approach does not advance the health agenda.
2) Because of our (minimum of) two party governmental system, ANY approach formulated will be ineffective because it is a moderate, piecemeal, compromised approach to solving the problem. Imagine giving kids a vaccine which has been diluted, watered down, or adulterated with all sorts of ingredients not essential to attacking the disease.
Why do ANYTHING if it is not going to be effective? Why waste the time and the money pursuing goals through ineffective means?
This issue will NEVER be resolved by either side as long as people have freedom of choice. It's the nature of human beings.
As Dirty Harry once said, "A man (or humankind) has to know his (or its) limitations.
October 23rd, 2010 at 4:50 am (#)
1) Reducing premiums and increasing coverage can happen regardless on human being's lack of modivation. From what I've read this bill will not impact premiums, which will increase, and net coverage will increase.
2) It sounds like you want to get disolve federal congress completely since we have an ineffective two party system. The bill didn't get a republican vote, so it didn't need to be watered down. Unfortunately the democrates watered down the bill themselves.
I wish republican's would speak more about the real problem they have with the bill. First, republican's would be against any bill proposed by Obama, because out of desperation have picked Obama as their favorate target practice figure. They know that they need to do anything possible to bring Obama down. Second, republicans don't want to help America's get better coverage or lower premiums, they don't want a national health care bill because they don't want the government to regulate businesses, even if those businesses are sudo-monopolistic vultures.