Importance of being Deceptively Dishonest

What a Title ! This is to point out some highlights from Obama speech to the Joint Session of Congress on his health care.

Highlights:

1. Presumption that more government involvement will solve medical crisis. Truth of the matter--only about four percent of a nation’s population actually has no health insurance, that is not a crisis. It is a problem, not a crisis.
2.Obama wants to eliminate inefficiency and waste . This can be done by creating an Independent Medicare Advisory Council—an unelected, largely unaccountable group of 'experts' charged with containing Medicare costs such a group, working outside of "normal political channels," should guide decisions regarding that "huge driver of cost . . . the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives . . . ." In Reality nonpartistan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) doesn't think so: Its director, Douglas Elmendorf, told the Senate Budget Committee in July that "in the legislation that has been reported we do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount."
3.Employer Mandates Would Make Coverage Affordable. In other words Obama wants to provide every American with some basic consumer protections that will finally hold insurance companies accountable." The opposite is True. How? Workers bear the full cost of their health coverage, either directly through contributions or indirectly through lower wages. An employer mandate really means that workers must receive a portion of wages in health benefits. Is it not common sense that if you provide a “public option” that the current system of employer-based health insurance will collapse? Remember, employers voluntarily provide coverage for their workers. With the added mandates the President seeks to impose, what’s to stop them from simply paying a fine and transferring their employees into a federally run system – and thereby both dramatically increase the costs to the federal government, leading inevitably to rationed care?
4.No federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place. Truth is Capps amendment to the House bill (HR 3200) explicitly allows abortion coverage in the public health plan and subsidizes health plans that cover abortion. In fact, every amendment to exclude abortion coverage from health care legislation was defeated by the liberal sponsors.

Again the Truth in really taking care of those who are uninsured would be to have a patient and market centered and oriented driven policy respectively. How ? Tax benefits for those who have no insurance coverage, similar to those who received coverage through their employer. Vouchers for Medicare patients as this would allow them to pay for their own coverage.Reform tort laws will save billions each year in wasteful spending; and changing costly state regulations to allow people to buy insurance across state lines. Rather than another top-down government plan, let's give Americans control over their own health care.

What are your thoughts on Obamacare?



Blessings


Eric