Thursday, September 10, 2009

What's wrong with obamacare?

An easier question would be: What is right with obamacare? The answer is easy: just about nothing.

As for what is wrong with it, well that could fill hundreds of pages. Here is a condensed summary:

  • Too expensive
    This thing is huge, unwieldy, and insanely expensive, particularly now given the current economic conditions. There is no way to pay for his proposals. He will likely print money (which he is already doing to try to cover the other insanities he is pushing through), which will only serve to bankrupt the country in the long run and drive inflation through the roof. Even the Congressional Budget Office said it is too expensive and will put the nation in much deeper debt. It is simply unsustainable.
  • Based on lies and bad information
    One of obama's favorite "talking points" on healthcare is "47 million uninsured Americans". What a load of pure crap. 10 million of those people are illegal immigrants, which makes that "47 million Americans" statement an outright lie. Another 15 million+ of those people make enough money to buy insurance but choose not to. So a REAL number of uninsured Americans who need insurance is about 20 million, tops.
  • It will provide free insurance to millions if illegal immigrants
    The simple fact that obama includes them in his number of uninsured says that he intends to insure them, on our dime no less.
  • It is a government takeover of healthcare
    Obama and the liberals can lie all they want and say it isn't true, but obamacare is a government healthcare program. They use different terms like "public option" to try and fool everyone, but it is still a government takeover nonetheless. This alone should and has made people question the sanity of this proposal. Aside from the military, name one well-run government program. You can't, because it doesn't exist. The liberals like to say medicare, medicaid, and the postal service are all well run government programs. They are all broke. The government couldn't run a lemonade stand without going broke, poisoning people, or having to raise the cost of lemonade to $50/glass.
  • Rationing
    Because it will be government run, and the program will be broke before it gets off the ground, rationing will be required. For the liberals who continue to deny this, do you really think that the government will provide for expensive procedures when the program is broke and the government employee making the decision is pressured to cut costs?
  • Death Panels
    Obama and the libs still lie and deny this too, but they are there. They give it a warm-n-fuzzy name like "end of life counseling", but it is death panels. As a result of the program being broke and the rationing, older Americans will be denied life saving treatment and be "counseled" and forced to take a pain pill and go home to die. Even as they continued to deny the existence of the death panels, they rewrote that portion of the bill to try and remove them. Why would they have to remove something that didn't exist? Damned liars.
  • Abortions funded by taxes.
    We all know that the liberals love abortions. This program will make abortions government provided, paid for by taxes. Obama and the libs lie and deny it, but it will.
  • Quality will decrease
    Look at any government healthcare program in the world and compare it to ours. No contest, our free market system provides better quality healthcare. In stanford's recent study of healthcare, the numbers are staggering. Americans have much better survival rates for common cancers. Americans have much better access to treatment for chronic diseases and preventive cancer screenings. Americans enjoy a much shorter wait time. Citizens of other countries with government controlled healthcare are less satisfied than U.S. citizens are. Americans have more access to new healthcare technologies. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all healthcare innovations. If obamacare is passed, all this will be reversed. Obama and the libs like to lie about this too. They claim that most Americans are dissatisfied and most Canadians and europeans love their helthcare. Like most things, they are completely backwards on the facts.
  • Costs will increase
    This is easy. Any time the government gets involved with anything, costs go up. Duh. Even the Congressional Budget Office says that obamacare will increase costs.

Now with all that said, I and most people are not saying our current system is perfect and in no need of reform. It is far from perfect, and needs improvement. But for obama and his commie cronies to push something like this through is definitely NOT what we need. The outcome will be terrible for all of us.

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