Obamacare: Startling New Revelations Scare Public
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown
Costs are about to TRIPLE under Obamacare
First, we learned that a $500 billion cut in Medicare will dramatically affect the quality and quantity of healthcare available to America’s senior citizens.
Grandma’s access is being slashed to add illegal immigrants and twenty-somethings into the insurance system. However, this revelation pales in relation to what we heard this week.
Here’s the latest shock: Average current health insurance premiums with likely triple under Obamacare.
The new data comes from a well regarded, state-by-state study conducted for WellPoint, Inc. The most dramatic premium boosts will hit young people. These are the actual individuals that often opt out of insurance plans now.
Reaction from the Obama White House was swift and harsh. Linda Douglass, Obama’s healthcare spokesperson, had the audacity to compare the health insurance firm with tobacco companies. Since the White House refuses to argue the facts, they instead turned to using one of their favorite tactics, which is demonizing any voices of dissent.
The reason for the dramatic insurance premium increases is the result of Obamacare regulations. First cause is the mandate that insurance companies take any customer. Insurance traditionally is an actuarial business that rates different customers based on risk factors. This is the reason a driver aged 19 with two speeding tickets pays more for auto insurance than a customer aged 35 with no speeding tickets. Nineteen-year-olds have more accidents. Therefore they pose more risk.
Traditionally, health insurance companies charged customers with risk factors and chronic illness more than young, healthy 19-year-olds. Obamacare stands the concept of insurance on its head. Since an insurance company will be forced to sell to any sick patient, the incentive to buy insurance when you are healthy decreases. Why not wait until you are sick; get cancer, diabetes or some other severe illness before you buy? To circumvent this problem, Obama is riddling the program with police-state mandates on healthy, younger citizens. Perverted, negative incentives such as threats of large fines and even prison time will hang over young people’s heads to force them to join and stay enrolled in Obama’s healthcare scheme. Does this sound like America to you?
Democratic leaders in Congress are seeing support slip through their fingers because Americans are learning that they will end up paying more for less-adequate care. The beneficiaries of this plan are still lobbying hard. Big business will likely dump most of their current employee-based plans and pay the less expensive tax. Big unions are facing the reality that they are going to be bankrupted by their generous membership health plans. Many want to dump their responsibilities on the new government option recently revived by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. AARP is salivating at the money they will make selling new, bigger Medicare-gap plans after the current program is gutted.
These powerful lobbies are the driving force for change. Individual family finances will pay the higher costs and see no benefit.
There is still time to kill this wrongheaded plan and replace it with reforms that will truly work. Selling insurance across state lines will increase competition and lower prices. Tort reform that eliminates outrageous judgments in malpractice cases will get lawyers out of medicine; this will result in eliminating billions currently being spent in the name of defensive medicine.
Insurance can work, but the costly mandates and regulations already choking the healthcare system are a big barrier to cutting costs.
Free markets deliver to Americans consumer goods, groceries, veterinary services, and even plastic surgery at affordable prices with little government meddling.
Let the free market price and correct the distortions currently in the health care system.
Government has bankrupted Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. Postal Service. Let’s not let the politicians destroy the greatest healthcare delivery system in the world.
Tags: Costly plan, Expensive, Obamacare, Scary new revelations
October 30th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
What everyone has now is working. The government should leave it alone. This CHANGE is all about controlling all of us and it's a BIG scam and a LIE. It's a socialist take over. We better wake up and contact our representatives. We will win against this take over.
It was suppose to be passed by June and they are still at it, and with much opposition now. Senator Lieberman, hats off to him for opposing the DEMS plan. Even Senator Snowe is not going to support this now.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
What everyone has now is working. The government should leave it alone. This CHANGE is all about controlling all of us and it's a BIG scam and a LIE. It's a socialist take over. We better wake up and contact our representatives. We will win against this take over.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Obama's conquest if the socialization of America, no matter what. All he cares about, all he thinks about, with him as the Tzar.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Remember life before the insurance paradigm? There was no institutional giant. Insurance was for extraordinary circumstances. People purchased things like major medical, but it wasn't considered a necessity. If you needed medical attention, an inexpensive office call usually did the trick.
Is anyone thinking outside the insurance box?
Has health insurance become as necessary as air and water?
October 30th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
The "fix" for all of the problems caused by the latest Govt. in charge is this:
America…STICK TOGETHER and help replace the Govt. we have now from the President on down. The only cure is to get rid of the "germs" and clean
up America! Or we are in serious trouble of loosing our FREE country.
October 30th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
This guy is just doing what he is told to do. This is just another step towards the NWO and our administration is oblivious as to what is happening with this man and his cohorts. He's just in office as a distraction while the shadow government does its work. Why do you think he plays so much? Why do you think he concentrates on menial tasks? He has to appear as if he is doing something while in office. Beware – we are slowly being gobbled up!
October 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
nothing will stem the COST of healthcare. It COSTS what it COSTS. The Guvment wont step in and lower the COST, it will just blame the Insurance Companies and shift control on what you pay from you paying the Insurance Company to paying the Guvment. The COST will remain the same or increase. The Guvment cant change the COST of anything. Try comparing the issue to car insurance. Repairs will still COST the same if you pay for it, the insurance company pays or the Guvment pays. No savings until YOU have to pay for it out of your own pocket. Why cant hospitals tell you how much anything will cost BEFORE you buy? Why can't I shop around for Healthcare? That is how the Free Market system works!
October 30th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Insurance is not necessary at all. The market will charge what the market can bear; therefore, if there were no insurance, health care costs would decrease dramatically. Prices would also decrease if the government and accreditation bodies such as JCAHO were removed from the picture. Go to a hospital and offer to pay cash for services. The discount will be substantial, probably 40-50%.
October 30th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
The House health care bill is an ABORTION —-the Senate bill is also an ABORTION. Compromise and make the two into one and it will still be an ABORTION. Over 53% of the public are opposed but the Messiah will not be happy until he and his idiotic Congress have pushed it down our throats.I suggest we push it up their rectums—oops I forgot their heads are in the way. Go to http://www.dearpolitician.org and urge your Senators and Representatives To vote against the health care bill
October 30th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Covering those with pre-exisiting conditions should be legislated into any insurance reform bill and can be done with a stroke of a pen, not total take-over by the Gubment. So can competition across State lines. I'm sure the cost of my private insurance will go up, but I'd rather continue to purchase my health care from my private insurance carrier, who never denied me a test, procedure, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and Neulasta injections (at $6000 a pop) when I was battling cancer and fighting for my life. I'm a 62 year old, white female, and what scares me the most is the value that the Muslim in the Oval Office places on my life and my continued remission from cancer has probably fallen to -0-, zip, nada. Time will tell, but I'm sure the stupid, uninformed, undereducated, liberal talking points spouted by the Lefties I know will continue to blame Dubya….one of the best presidents we've ever had. Don't even bother to scream at me about Dubya increasing the deficit to fight a war on bad info on WMD's….Clinton cut military spending by 30%, knowing full well that an attack on American soil was eminent. Look at the mess HE LEFT !!
October 30th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Maybe the way around this mess is to stop all healthcare insurance programs. The people will start paying for their own and buying a new insurance (can't call it health insurance since Pelosi's bill will ban private Health ins) that covers catastrophies – deduc and amts based on your choice of deduc,caps & premium. Tell the Gov't to go fly a kite.
October 30th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
This small minded Phony does not give one hoot for America or Americans: its all about Hussien Obama!!
October 30th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Health insurance would also go down if the pharmaceuticals would get out of it. And the specialist surgeons. Which advise do you think you are getting: Go home and include certain foods in your diet and take vitamins to get better or spend thousands on chemicals (that cause more problems requiring more chemicals) and see dr so-and-so for a multithousand dollar operation requiring many days in the hospital costing a thousands a day. Rediculous when a bandaid costs over $5.00. We need to also incorporate some of the "doctoring" that was so successful prior to the 1950's and Bayer Aspirin when the pharmaceuticals first started popping up everywhere and degrading every "home remedy" that had worked for thousands of years.
October 31st, 2009 at 3:14 am
Amen…..
October 31st, 2009 at 3:16 am
Amen… and he wants to take over the world… have one world…. He wants to control it all… with help from his cronies…
October 31st, 2009 at 10:45 pm
I just want to say when you are refering to (him) please don't capitalize messiah. He definitely not a Messiah! My Lord is the only one I call my Mesasiah or Saviour.
October 31st, 2009 at 11:40 pm
well I am still waiting for him to come right out and say what the new health care plan is. Everyone in the house including him just keep beating around the "Bush"no pun intended. LOL
November 1st, 2009 at 6:13 pm
The illegal alien in office will destroy the best health care system in the world for 90% of our citizens in order to insure the other 10%. No, that's not all of it. He wants to control every facet of our lives, no matter the cost in human life. He will also sign away our soverenty in Copenhagen if he can. That's what the Nobel Peace prize was really all about. One world order, one world government, & he wants to be the boss. By collecting data on all of us, he will know who his enemies are, they will be denied health care & will die. Problem solved. Wake up America. Fight back or go under. Contact your Congressmen & make your wishes known.