Easing The Pain of Insurance for Business Owners

ObamaCare Diagnosis: "Dead-on-Arrival"

6/22/2009
posted by Butch Zemar in Health Care Reform |

I would like to share with you an email I received recently.  We need to get the word out there. - Butch Zemar

Butch,

Socialized health care in America is dead (and you read it here, first).

We now know that one of the major healthcare overhaul plans on the table would cost at least $1.6 TRILLION ($1,600,000,000,000) over 10 years... yet still leave tens of millions of people uninsured!

The (nonpartisan) Congressional Budget Office (by the way, Butch, it might seem that history is repeating itself, since a negative CBO analysis delivered a devastating blow to "HillaryCare" in 1994) concluded that Senator Kennedy's much awaited (and apparently over-hyped) "plan" would reduce the number of uninsured by only a net 16 million people... and 36 million people would remain uninsured in 2017!

Some quick math: Divide 1,600,000,000,000 (dollars) by 16,000,000 (people). The answer, $100,000, is the Kennedy bill's cost to the American taxpayer per uninsured person over the next 10 years!

Too ridiculous to "reduce to the ridiculous" but here goes, anyhow: The cost of providing health care to a family of four, under the Kennedy "plan" would be a mind-numbing $40,000 per year... or $3,333 per month!

So, Butch, if you're still conscious, we're supposed to disrupt the lives of 150 million (non-elderly) Americans that are now covered by private insurance programs, in order to add just 16 million more... at a cost of $10,000 per individual per year?

Note: The government already directs almost 60% of America's health care spending (Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans' programs, etc.) and those outlays are grossly out of control... costing more than $1 TRILLION this year alone. Growing numbers of people that are eligible for government programs like Medicaid and SCHIP are refusing to enroll or are dropping out after trying it. They're telling the politicians that these programs don't work and aren't worth participating in.

So, given the fact that the Feds have done such a miserable job in the area of health care, can we really afford to hand over the rest of the country's programs to them?

Maybe the government should get its own house in order before tackling the private sector, eh, Butch?

- Mark

P.S. "If I could show you a plan that's run by the government... with the compassion of the IRS, the efficiency of the post office, and the competence of FEMA... for TEN times more than you're currently paying, would you...?"

Mark D. Goldstein
President
The Producers Alliance
www.TheProducersAlliance.net
 
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