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A (Final?) Look At The Proposed Healthcare

The Obama administration is determined to introduce a new healthcare plan for this nation, and apparently without regard to the consequences, or the pulse of the public. Something as massive, and so vitally important, as such a move should be thought out from every possible angle. Everyone, friend or foe, should be listened to carefully and all warnings or advice should be given intense consideration. Those bills now being considered have not been so handled.

Most everyone has now heard some of the things concerning the HR 3200 which contained much language totally unacceptable including the "public option" which would mean a complete takeover of our health care system by the government. It will not be the final bill to be rammed through congress. All of the proposed bills are exorbitant in cost, when we are most unable to afford them. The version most likely to be pushed through congress is the one  just finished by the Senate Finance Committee, of course it will undergo some changes yet when the Senate and House reconcile their plans.

This plan, at present does not include a public option, yet some say that it will lead to such via private co-ops overseen and subsidized by the government. However, there is exceedingly heavy pressure from the ultra left Democrats, such as George Soros' MoveOn.org group which claims to have 1 million members. People like Harry Reid, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and others are under intense pressure to get a public option into the bill. Every dirty trick  will be finagled to see that one is in the bill that is pushed through, or that it contains language which will lead to one.

But regardless of whichever one gets through, the benefits from it will not begin until 2013. But many things, to pay for it , will begin immediately. The very first two things on the agenda is many of the proposed tax increases will begin immediately as well as the cuts in Medicare expenses. Three years of paying taxes and seeing less benefits for the elderly before seeing any good results, is a pretty heavy price to pay, it seems to me. But the purpose for this is that it helps hide the tremendous cost and deficit spending. Here is an explanation for this reasoning: 

Lawmakers use a 10-year accounting window to assess new programs. Starting the Medicare cuts and some of the taxes in the early years -- and pushing the bulk of new spending into the latter years -- helps keep the cost of the health care overhaul within Obama's $900 billion limit. Bush used the same kind of maneuver to push the Medicare benefit through Congress. (Fox News: Obama's Health Plan Offers Medicare Cuts, Tax Increases First, Benefits Later- October 10, 2009)

It is of little interest what such a maneuver is for, or who did it. It in no way lessens the cost to the taxpayer in the long term. Those taxes which are to go for the sustenance of this undesirable legislation, and the cuts in Medicare which will assuredly have it's repercussions, will make for a miserable three years, not to see anything of value occurring, and unemployment figures still down the toilet, will be a period of awakening for many of the American voters. Perhaps in time to put some sanity back into the government so we can then rescind or alter this monstrous effort. There are many alternative routes health care reform could take and be a winner.

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