Republicans Telling the Truth

Republican concerns regarding Healthcare Reform are legitimate despite recent claims by letter writers.
Many Americans don’t like this bill because the name itself, “healthcare reform,” is terribly misleading. There’s nothing in the bill that lowers healthcare cost or makes it more accessible, nor is there anything that reduces insurance premiums. It doesn’t reform healthcare. It reforms health insurance, the cost of which is directly related to the underlying cost of healthcare. To reduce health insurance premiums, you must lower healthcare cost.
This legislation is inarguably fiscally irresponsible. You don’t spend money that you don’t have when you’re already massively indebted and underfunding current liabilities. Additionally, per the heads of the Congressional Budget Office and Medicare, the bill absolutely double counts $500 billion in cuts from Medicare and considers it revenue to fund the expansion of health insurance. It’s the same as transferring $5 from your left pocket into your right, and claiming you’re $5 richer.
The government will ration care. Medicare currently declines/rations more claims than the top three private insurance carriers combined. The larger concern is the lack of Dr. and insurer choice and increased waiting times, if/when private physician practices and private insurers are forced out of business due to insurance reforms like “just in time” insurance purchasing and escalating Medicare payment cuts to providers.
It’s a colossal government overreach. I pray that most readers agree that it would be better if the law f
Regardless of the truth, many people believe our President’s claim that “employer premiums will be reduced 3000%”. If the average premium is $8,500 per employee, the premium savings is $246,500 per employee. If liberals truly can’t see that this is bull, there is little hope for the future of our union.
True healthcare reform that fosters universal healthcare should start with four steps:
1. Tort reform to lower wasted claims cost from defensive medicine and the overhead cost of malpractice insurance.
2. Education funding for future Dr’s and RNs not salaries for IRS Agents.
3. Enforce our immigration laws and deport illegals or at least don’t provide them healthcare. This may reduce cost by 20% while opening jobs for legals that need them.
4. Eliminate costly benefit mandates that help a few at the expense of all, i.e. New Jersey’s 42 mandates add 25% on to everyone’s insurance premium.
VAUGHN REALE
Margate