The deficit is out of control. Did you know that Medicare was underestimated by billions of dollars, and that is why the debt goes up? Haven't we learned from Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. Postal Service and Social Security, which are going broke because of poor government management, waste, fraud and abuse? Another example is Massachusetts health care.
My aunts were just told their rates for Medicare will go up substantially under this proposed health care bill because of the cuts to Medicare, not to mention rationing (Sec. 203). To do this to our elderly is a crime, period! (We won't need the Lafayette County Manor anymore. ...)
Page 297 of the bill explains the punishment for not purchasing government-mandated health insurance. If you don't buy what the government considers "acceptable health care coverage," you're going to be hit with a tax of at least 2.5 percent of your income. And if you don't pay that new tax, you could be fined as much as $250,000 and sentenced to up to five years in prison. It will tax businesses, tax insurance companies, and create a hidden tax on the young. You will have no choice at all when it comes to this federal government health care insurance mandate.
There are other ways to "reform" health care without a government takeover and violating our Constitution, especially our personal liberties. Let's get back to discussing market-driven, patient-centered, result-driven solutions like, for example, allowing people to purchase insurance across state lines, tackling existing government waste and fraud, and reforming medical malpractice laws (tort reform) to stop unwarranted lawsuits that force doctors to order unnecessary procedures just to cover themselves.
This out-of-control bureaucratic mess will be disastrous for our economy, our small businesses and our personal liberty. It will slam businesses at a time when we are at double-digit unemployment rates - the highest we've seen in a quarter of a century. This massive new bureaucracy will cost us and our children money we don't have. It will rob Americans of more of our freedom and further hamper the free market.
My aunts were just told their rates for Medicare will go up substantially under this proposed health care bill because of the cuts to Medicare, not to mention rationing (Sec. 203). To do this to our elderly is a crime, period! (We won't need the Lafayette County Manor anymore. ...)
Page 297 of the bill explains the punishment for not purchasing government-mandated health insurance. If you don't buy what the government considers "acceptable health care coverage," you're going to be hit with a tax of at least 2.5 percent of your income. And if you don't pay that new tax, you could be fined as much as $250,000 and sentenced to up to five years in prison. It will tax businesses, tax insurance companies, and create a hidden tax on the young. You will have no choice at all when it comes to this federal government health care insurance mandate.
There are other ways to "reform" health care without a government takeover and violating our Constitution, especially our personal liberties. Let's get back to discussing market-driven, patient-centered, result-driven solutions like, for example, allowing people to purchase insurance across state lines, tackling existing government waste and fraud, and reforming medical malpractice laws (tort reform) to stop unwarranted lawsuits that force doctors to order unnecessary procedures just to cover themselves.
This out-of-control bureaucratic mess will be disastrous for our economy, our small businesses and our personal liberty. It will slam businesses at a time when we are at double-digit unemployment rates - the highest we've seen in a quarter of a century. This massive new bureaucracy will cost us and our children money we don't have. It will rob Americans of more of our freedom and further hamper the free market.
