Ok, this has to be written about. If you are NOT political you better listen up. How would you like to be made by LAW to pay an extra $100-$200 a month for healthcare?
Before I get into this, let me make it clear, I am a registered democrat. But, I cannot support mandated healthcare. Here is why:
1. I was an insurance agent for 17 years. Auto insurance is LAW is it not? However, every person that buys auto insurance pays for "uninsured motorists coverage". Why do you pay for this if having insurance is LAW? Because people that should be buying insurance don't!
2. The same thing will happen with mandated healthcare. Let us just say that healthcare becomes LAW. You are FORCED to pay for insurance for your family of four for the nominal fee of $100 to $200 a month. How many families CANNOT afford this? The answer is MANY. Therefore, EVERYONE else will be charged for these people PLUS we will take their bare minimum tax refund checks that they use for LIVING. Thus perhaps increasing the amount of people on public assistance.
3. On top of all of this, with the new families added to the healthcare plan, it will take YEARS for doctors and hospitals to catch up. You will wait for months for simple procedures simply because of the new backlog of recipients of the health system. Care will be sub par and you will pay MORE.
I am infuriated by Obama's insistence that he be the one that instigates healthcare. Look, I voted for the man, but there is a reason this has not been able to become a national mandate. It is NOT prudent. It helps no one. A fine imposed because you don't have healthcare? You can't afford healthcare so here is a fine that you furthermore cannot afford. Are we then going to imprison those people? A new debtors prison? This is not feasible.
Please, rethink your legacy President Obama. This is NOT the right thing. I am not the smartest person in the world, but I do know this is no mensa members healthcare plan either. It is NOT true that any healthcare plan is better than none.
This is all spoken by a true Democrat. God please let this blog reach the White House!
Malicious Extrapolation
9 years ago
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interesting stuff. you need to get the signs made and start marchin' !!
ReplyDeleteLori:
ReplyDeleteGood post!
What bothers me is the back room, out-of-sight work that excludes all of us from meaningful debate.
We hear President Obama talk about "my plan", but don't get much of the detail, other than the emotional issues that dominate our press coverage (insurance for non-citizens; public funding of abortion; etc.)
I always thought our Representative Democracy would be more uplifting than this.
Was not the LAW going to be that children must be covered? I do not recall that people were going to be forced to pay for insurance premiums if they cannot afford it?? What is the source on this? Taxes we ALL pay was going to support this, and better this than all the other stuff tax dollars are wasted on. Cut back on $$ we send other countries and start focusing on our own.
ReplyDeleteAs for point #3, managed health care ALREADY force people to wait for needed care (sometimes desperately needed) while they deny, deny, deny and you are forced to fight for the care you need. I do not believe the government will cause more delays but it will take out some of the insurance companies desire to deny care to increase profits.
Finally, Obama had mentioned a system that would treat people who need insurance as a "group" thus making it far more affordable. Has this changed?