Democratic Stealth Care

Tug McGroin

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Mar 25, 2008
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Under "stimulus," Medicaid is now on offer not to just poor Americans, but Americans who have lost their jobs. And not just Americans who have lost their jobs, but their spouses and their children. And not Americans who recently lost their jobs, but those who lost jobs, say, early last year. And not just Americans who already lost their jobs, but those who will lose their jobs up to 2011. The federal government is graciously footing the whole bill. The legislation also forbids states to apply income tests in most cases (did we not just go through this with sub-prime mortgage loans?).

The "stimulus" also hijacks Cobra, a program that lets the unemployed retain access to their former company health benefits -- usually for about 18 months. The new stimulus permits any former employee over the age of 55 to keep using Cobra right up until they qualify for Medicare at age 65. And here's the kicker: Whereas employees were previously responsible for paying their health premiums while on Cobra, now the feds will pay 65%. CBO estimates? Seven million Americans will have the feds mostly pay their insurance bills in 2009.

House Democrat Henry Waxman was so thrilled by this blowout, it was left to Republicans to remind him that the very banking millionaires he dragged to the Hill last year for a grilling would now qualify for government aid.

Democratic Stealth Care

CHANGE FOR THE WORSE
 
Sorry, you're going to die..........

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective.

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.â€￾ Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.

You want 'free' health care.......you'll pay dearly.............
 
Sorry, you're going to die..........

You want 'free' health care.......you'll pay dearly.............

Of course, nationlized health care is a panacea. People think they will get the same standard of care they will get today. Wrong! Instead of HMO advisory boards dictating coverages/claims you will have the government dictating if your sick enough. Just look at the wonderful NHS in the UK:

Article Link Man pulls out 13 of his own teeth with pliers 'because he couldn't find an NHS dentist'
A former soldier pulled his own teeth out with a pair of pliers because he could not find a dentist to take on NHS patients.

Iraq War veteran Ian Boynton could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain.

The 42-year-old, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, had not had his teeth looked at since seeing the army dentist in 2003. He had not been registered with a dentist of his own since 2001.