Rep. Steve King Pushes Plan to Defund Obamacare

Your whole comment is pretentious. Your president wants full disclosure of obamacare. Barry has promised to explain it and Pelosi did (?) after passage of obamacare.

In our great Country we are allowed to express opposing viewpoint.

I am inclined to believe my opposition to obamacare is more persuasive than your wanting to exclude my evidence about obamacare.

“bogus links” is absurd.

“pornographers post ” ridiculous.

“gibberish conservative pandering. ” hardly.

Fred of OK your dislike is how well the two comments disputes obamacare. Explains WHY polls are against obamacare. You will see those comments often when discussion here is obamacare.

ENJOY…

Bill Hedges of MO 8:22AM February 12, 2011

"Obama Administration Report is a Devastating Critique of ObamaCare"

April 26, 2010

"Here are the salient findings (with page numbers in the Actuary’s report)":

"Health care costs will go up, not down. National health expenditures will increase from 17 percent of GDP now to 21 percent under the new law and will be higher than without the legislation. [Page 4] Net federal spending on health care will also increase.

Health care shortages are “plausible and even probable.” Because of the increased demand for health care, “supply constraints might initially interfere with providing the services desired by the additional 34 million insured persons.” [Page 20]

14 million employees will lose their employer coverage. Employees of small firms are especially at risk (despite small employer tax credit subsidies)". [Page 7]

"2 million employees who lose coverage will have to enroll in Medicaid. [Page 3]

A Medicaid insurance card is not a guarantee of care. An estimated 18 million people will be added to Medicaid. [Page 3] However, because there is no corresponding increase in the supply of caregivers, “it is reasonable to expect that a significant portion of the increased demand for Medicaid would be difficult to meet, particularly over the first few years.” [Page 20]

One in ten insured workers will see their health benefits taxed. By 2019, more than 10% of insured workers will “be in employer plans with benefit values in excess of the thresholds (before changes to reduce benefits) and this percentage would increase rapidly thereafter.” [Page 13]

Higher taxes will lead to higher premiums. The new taxes on medical devices, prescription drugs, and insurance plans “would generally be passed on through to health consumers in the form of higher drug and device prices and higher insurance premiums.” [Page 17]

"There are more than one-half trillion in Medicare cuts. The new health law cuts “$575 billion” from Medicare." [Page 4]

"Medicare cuts would threaten almost one in every seven hospitals. About “15 percent of Part A providers would become unprofitable within the 10-year projection period.” [Page 10]

"Overall access to care for seniors would go down. Because of the law’s payment reductions, “providers for whom Medicare constitutes a substantive portion of their business could find it difficult to remain profitable and, absent legislative intervention, might end their participation in the program." [Page 10]

"7.4 million people will lose access to Medicare Advantage plans. Enrollment in MA plans will be cut in half (from its projected level of 14.8 million under the current law to 7.4 million under the new law)". [Page 11]

More in link...

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/obama-administration-report-is-a-devastating-critique-of-obamacare/ ,

Bill Hedges of MO 3:39PM February 11, 2011

“The CBO is required to "score" the numbers presented to them by congress no matter how unrealistic.”

“The party in power at the time (Democratic Party) makes believe that the CBO's forecasts are carved in stone. All the score really shows is that politicians have rigged the budget rules to hide the true cost of entitlements.”

“How did gaming the CBO budget scores make President Obama’s healthcare act seem to save money?”

1. “President Obama’s healthcare law uses 10 years of taxes to fund six years of subsidies.

2. Social Security and Medicare revenues are double-counted to the tune of $398 billion.

3. A new program funding long-term care frontloads taxes but backloads spending.

4. The law pretends that Congress will spend less on Medicare than it really will, in particular, through an automatic 25% cut to physician payments that Democrats have already voted not to allow for this year.

5. President Obama had the law shift the government doctor fix out of the healthcare budget.”

“These are just a few of the tricks used by President Obama to get the CBO to score his healthcare reform budget neutral.”

“Richard Foster, the chief Medicare actuary separately published analyses of the Medicare and Medicaid spending that would have be devastating to President Obama’s healthcare law. He revealed the true cost . His report was not widely covered by the traditional media.”

“Doug Holtz-Eakin, a former CBO director and an economist has pointed out that ObamaCare creates an incentive for businesses to drop employee coverage. Employees will be forced into the private insurance market using after tax dollars or Medicaid. This was obvious to me from the start. The results will explode the federal and state deficits far more than the CBO projects. It will also result in a decrease in access to care as well as rationing of healthcare.”

http://www.wellsphere.com/healthcare-industry-policy-article/entitlements-do-not-save-money/1334204

Bill Hedges of MO 2:56PM February 11, 2011

Oh, but it would create jobs alright ....more government jobs, which, in turn, makes our government even larger (which most of us citizens do not want, and, not to mention just how big government has bungled enough "government businesses")!

The unemployed and underemployed are just going to have to continue to go to public assistance and the public health facilities that have been set up decades ago by the states.

What? You say public health dosen't cover enough?

...you should have been writing your state congressperson!

Super Power Play of CA 12:06PM February 11, 2011