What's Wrong with Obamacare?
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mentioned landmark case, Obama vs. Citibank, a root cause of the Great Recession. The leftist media blamed President Bush, to help elect Obama president, and ignored his ACORN past in the 90’s.
Healthcare is 1/5 of the US economy, and Democrats wanted a permanent majority. Jesse Jackson tried first, in 1988, with “Putting People First”. Hillarycare was next, in 1992. They got raving reviews from socialists, however Congress dismissed them as radical and expensive. Democrats passed Obamacare in 2010, amid protests from a new Republican Tea Party, that backed down when accused of taking healthcare from the poor. In 2012, Rep. Mit Romney ran for president, on the platform of repealing Obamacare, but the liberal media branded him as out of touch with the 47% who collect public assistance. In 2014, Senator Cruz was abandoned by Republicans when he tried to defund Obamacare. A majority of Americans opposed Obamacare. It became law on advice from Dem. Nancy Pelosi that we “had to pass it to see what’s in it”. As healthcare prices rose, and reality of the IRS at our doors set in, people grew more angry, but President Obama, and the leftist media, presented the rosy scenario that 30 million Americans |
had new coverage. Actually, they already had free care at emergency rooms. Then, as a gesture for compassion (or illegal votes), he opened our borders, and emergency rooms flooded with illegals. He expanded Medicaid, but 54% of doctors don’t accept Medicaid patients, so even more visited emergency rooms. Obama claimed people with pre-existing conditions weren’t covered. They were. To get re-elected in 2012, he said costs would be reduced and you can keep your doctor. That was the lie of the year. More people are covered, but rising costs of hospitals, drugs, and deductables make care less affordable. Americas’ last hope for repeal was Donald Trumps’ election in 2016.
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in 2007, but did nothing.
On April 30, 2014, CNN ran a story of 40 veterans who died waiting for treatment, at a Phoenix, AZ veterans hospital. First, the VA got a facelift by replacing Secretary Shinseki. Then the media denied veterans had died waiting for treatment. As in the IRS scandal, the VA cooked their books in response to investigation, and it appears union employees were instructed by Obama VA officials to obstruct Congress. It would be better if veterans simply saw their own doctor, but unions would lose jobs, and Democrats their PAC money, so veterans continue to suffer. Senior Care was a target for Obama, who vowed to punish political enemies. Most vote Republican. They are the wealthiest age group, and need the most healthcare. Seniors don’t want a bureaucrat to choose their doctor, and most doubt that government, with its waste, fraud and corruption, can provide affordable care. They opposed ACA 14 to 1, after Obama raided Medicare of $700 billion coverage. But they had a "senior moment" and were betrayed. Obama awarded AARP contracts to sell seniors $1 billion Medigap coverage over 10 years, in exchange for their support of ACA. Seniors would pay more for drugs, by a treaty between Pacific Rim countries (TPP), that ends Medicare drug discounts, and gives Big Pharma protection from competition. No competition means higher prices. TPP was cancelled by President Trump. |
Public healthcare is less affordable than private care. The political goal of a bureaucracy is to perpetuate itself, and healthcare funds Democrats. Government has never done anything as efficiently as the private sector. Rising health costs will be paid by higher taxes. Waiting times will increase. Americans pay more than twice what europeans pay for comparable health services. Our public union employees earn twice as much as private sector counterparts. They get early retirement, free Obamacare paid by taxpayers, and leave little in the budget for people with legitimate needs. Their fat pensions left Stockton, CA bankrupt, Their strikes disrupt government operations, and they gain concessions without regard for economic limits.
The IRS collects personal info from Obamacare applicants. IRS Director Koskonen said it had layers of protection from political targeting, but former director Lerner defied them by auditing tax returns of Tea Party donors. The core problem is that the IRS is infiltrated by the National Treasury Employees Union, NTEU. 96% of their political spending funds Democrats. They buy corrupt politicians and media to shill for them, and know the public will eventually forget scandals. Death Chambers- Too many seniors die from superbug infection in unsanitary hospitals, and nobody hears them. Too many end their lives penniless, drugged and warehoused. The problem is too many patients and not enough funds. |
In China, adults are forced to visit aging parents, but in the USA, children raised by liberal media and teachers hate and ostracize their conservative parents, or they are on welfare and can’t help them.
Health prevention and promotion, on TV could lower healthcare costs. 2/3 of healthcare spending could be saved just by preventing obesity. Instead, we create more by feeding the poor free processed food, and food producers protect their markets with donations to crony politicians. Media ads curbed smoking, so why not obesity? Dr Otto Warburg earned a 1931 Nobel Prize for discovering alkalinity kills cancer cells. The same results can be produced with regular exercise, a diet of dark green vegetables, and fasting. Instead, doctors prescribe radiation that kills you. 38,000 died in road crashes, in 2015, and 2.35 million were injured or disabled. Many of us would prefer travel by bicycle, on safe bike paths, as in Europe. Instead, they are opposed by car and road builders. 90% of violent crimes are committed by dark skinned people. One factor is the disorder SAD, caused by lack of sunlight. SAD statistics could be improved by raising the RDA for vitamin D, but the left has a massive bureaucracy that agitates blacks and attributes their violence to racism. www.message4u.weebly.com |
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