More hidden consequences of ObamaCare unveiled.
The list is mounting and it should be no surprise considering Pelosi herself stated that we will only discover the inner workings of the bill after it's passage. This of course tyranny at it's finest and it is happening right under our noses. While you can be somewhat comforted knowing that a majority of Americans want this abomination of a bill repealed, it is only a short lived comfort since the majority is a paltry 58%. So far only 18 states have filed suit to preserve state autonomy, another disturbingly low number, disturbing because it is astonishing how quickly states are willing to surrender rights and freedom to the likes of Pelosi and Reid.
Today's discovery comes from a story from Arizona. One doctor is threatening to close his practice, a practice that been operational since 1976! Why is the good doctor so perturbed? It looks like the already obnoxious penalty of $10,000 for failing to comply with Medicare standards will be going up to $50,000! As the doctor points out, the amount of red tape is already suffocating, but quintupling the penalty is just too much.
According to the Joint Commission on Taxation, the middle class is looking at a massive multi-billion dollar tax hike. In less than 9 years, the middle class will be paying 3.9 Billion extra per year and this is according to the official Congressional projection. In my experience these projections are never accurate. By the time all the provisions of the bill come into play, over 15 billion dollars will be extracted out of the middle class just in the next 10 years. But I assure you, Obama will run for president in 2012 and claim that he did not raise taxes on the middle class. In the purest sense perhaps, the tax brackets will not change, but the federal government is constantly developing new and innovative ways to raise revenue. This is a tax, whether they like it or not.
So in order to achieve a socialist future, the Democrats have laced existing doctors with more threats and plan to distribute wealth out of the already hurting middle class in order to insure less than 10% of America. Not only does this fail to achieve the primary goal of health care reform, drive costs down, but this will significantly impair not only the economy (as money leaves the private sector), and damage the quality of our care.
The main culprits of runaway costs in this nation have STILL not been addressed. Medicare and Medicaid along with foolish federal subsidies for employers have completely warped and distorted the market, yet neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are willing to deal with the truth. Hopefully more people like the aforementioned doctor will bring to light that below market subsidies for 90 million Americans (Medicaid + Medicare) cannot be sustained.
We are tragically heading into the opposite direction.
Today's discovery comes from a story from Arizona. One doctor is threatening to close his practice, a practice that been operational since 1976! Why is the good doctor so perturbed? It looks like the already obnoxious penalty of $10,000 for failing to comply with Medicare standards will be going up to $50,000! As the doctor points out, the amount of red tape is already suffocating, but quintupling the penalty is just too much.
“Doctors have actually committed suicide over these things. There’s no insurance to cover it,” Scherzer said, calling the fine system “tremendously complicated and Frankensteinian.” “It’s absolutely impossible to be certain you’ve complied. I feel like when I see a Medicare patient I have the Sword of Damocles hanging over my head.”Yeah, well those are not the only surprises. As if you can imagine anything worse than doctors pursuing early retirement and creating shortages in an already strapped health care system. There is more!!
Scherzer said he hasn’t been fined but he was audited by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services several years ago and spent months awaiting their findings. CMS never contacted him with the results of the audit, but he later found out that he had not been fined.
According to the Joint Commission on Taxation, the middle class is looking at a massive multi-billion dollar tax hike. In less than 9 years, the middle class will be paying 3.9 Billion extra per year and this is according to the official Congressional projection. In my experience these projections are never accurate. By the time all the provisions of the bill come into play, over 15 billion dollars will be extracted out of the middle class just in the next 10 years. But I assure you, Obama will run for president in 2012 and claim that he did not raise taxes on the middle class. In the purest sense perhaps, the tax brackets will not change, but the federal government is constantly developing new and innovative ways to raise revenue. This is a tax, whether they like it or not.
So in order to achieve a socialist future, the Democrats have laced existing doctors with more threats and plan to distribute wealth out of the already hurting middle class in order to insure less than 10% of America. Not only does this fail to achieve the primary goal of health care reform, drive costs down, but this will significantly impair not only the economy (as money leaves the private sector), and damage the quality of our care.
The main culprits of runaway costs in this nation have STILL not been addressed. Medicare and Medicaid along with foolish federal subsidies for employers have completely warped and distorted the market, yet neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are willing to deal with the truth. Hopefully more people like the aforementioned doctor will bring to light that below market subsidies for 90 million Americans (Medicaid + Medicare) cannot be sustained.
We are tragically heading into the opposite direction.
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