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Obama Remains Defiant With His Health Care Proposal

ARParty : February 22, 2010

Mr. Obama, what part of "NO to health care reform" do you not understand. Mr. President wake up! Sixty percent of the voting public spoke and said they DON'T want any plan and to leave their health insurance alone. Seventy percent want you to focus your efforts on economic issues and recovery. Only forty-two percent of the people think your doing a good job on all the issues. Finally, sixty-two percent of the people said they wouldn't even elect you again. When will you 'Get It' through your thick head. When will you stop acting like a child who hasn't learned to take NO for an answer. The Health Care Reform debate is over, done, DEAD. Mr. President, you're now old enough to understand, NO means NO to Healthcare Reform.

This president must either be deaf, doesn't understand English, is a slow learner or has a hidden agenda. We suspect the latter! But that's just our opinion.

President Obama continues to remain defiant and condescending while he crams down the throat of the American people his agenda for government run or illegally mandated Health care insurance coverage. Monday, the president finally released his, highly touted but never before disclosed, version of a Health Care Reform Bill. He claimed his version offers a compromise of ideas, concepts, approaches and concerns shared and endorsed by both Democrats and the Republicans who previously prevented the bills passage. (Well we know that's a bunch of bull crap because he couldn't get the bill passed when he had a Super Majority of Democrats in both houses)  

Purely to patronize our President's position, below is a brief summary of Mr. Obama's proposal which we have reviewed. To quickly summarize our perspective after reading his proposed bill we can assure you that, neither the president nor his advisors have any understanding of the insurance industry or how insurance works. This proposal is full of misleading facts, figures and assertions. Just look at the arrogance in the very first sentence of his below overview. He proposes to put "American families and small business owners in control of their own health care", someone please tell this man that we are already in control.  He professes to make insurance and its cost more affordable by providing "the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history" when in fact he is merely giving us back some of our tax money so we can pay it back into a government run & controlled insurance system. This is just another version of re-distributing money and wealth. He claims it will "end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions" where no discrimination actually exists. Insurance companies will insure pre-existing conditions but at a much higher premium, which the American people will now have to absorb. So much for lower insurance costs.

We can  go on an on showing you where his plan is riddled with misleading statements and facts but we will publish our complete analysis in a future article. Suffice it to say that, what Mr. Obama is proposing could never achieve its gaol because it is un-realistic, defies all basic economics, insurance underwriting principles, logic and common sense. 

 

 

 

The President’s Proposal puts American families and small business owners in control of their own health care.

  • It makes insurance more affordable by providing the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history, reducing premium costs for tens of millions of families and small business owners who are priced out of coverage today.  This helps over 31 million Americans afford health care who do not get it today – and makes coverage more affordable for many more.
  • It sets up a new competitive health insurance market giving tens of millions of Americans the exact same insurance choices that members of Congress will have.
  • It brings greater accountability to health care by laying out commonsense rules of the road to keep premiums down and prevent insurance industry abuses and denial of care.
  • It will end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions.
  • It puts our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit by $100 billion over the next ten years – and about $1 trillion over the second decade – by cutting government overspending and reining in waste, fraud and abuse.

The President’s Proposal bridges the gap between the House and Senate bills and includes new provisions to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse. 

It includes a targeted set of changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Senate-passed health insurance reform bill.  The President’s Proposal reflects policies from the House-passed bill and the President’s priorities.  Key changes include:

  • Eliminating the Nebraska FMAP provision and providing significant additional Federal financing to all States for the expansion of Medicaid;
  • Closing the Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” coverage gap;
  • Strengthening the Senate bill’s provisions that make insurance affordable for individuals and families;
  • Strengthening the provisions to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid;
  • Increasing the threshold for the excise tax on the most expensive health plans from $23,000 for a family plan to $27,500 and starting it in 2018 for all plans;
  • Improving insurance protections for consumers and creating a new Health Insurance Rate Authority to provide Federal assistance and oversight to States in conducting reviews of unreasonable rate increases and other unfair practices of insurance plans.

 

 

To read Mr. Obama's complete plain (Click Here)

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