Pelosi Health Care: Lessons Unlearned

Watching Nancy Pelosi gleefully parading her 2000 plus page House health care bill made me literally sick to my stomach, especially in light of the overwhelming public opposition to this type of bill. Do you really think that any government bill consisting of 2000 pages will result in anything good for you?

It is a left wing socialist’s dream. They aren’t even trying to hide what it does anymore. Even the left wing media agrees it does the following

1) It cuts $500 billion from Medicare. Do you really believe they are going to cut that amount from fraud and waste? My God! If they haven’t done it yet, it can’t be done. What they are going to cut is services and medical procedures to seniors. It eliminates Medicare Advantage programs. That is a direct increase in costs to seniors and their proverbial fixed income. It points those folks to AARP insurance, which will charge the seniors substantially more money for a less comprehensive supplemental policy. That is a fact.

2) It will force all citizens to purchase a health care policy, and not the catastrophic type of policies that are attached to health savings accounts and are affordable. No, you will have to buy one of the Pelosi defined policies, and will cost between $3,000.00 and $5,000.00. If you don’t buy, you get fined, or worse, go to jail. This will affect primarily young people. That is a fact.

3) It will raise premiums and taxes on everyone else in between, not to mention cut services. Don’t believe them when they say otherwise. Do the math. If you are able to maintain your insurance, you or your boss, will pay much more. Most likely, your employer will eliminate the policy, and you will be forced into the public plan that Congress says is so wonderful yet won’t use it for themselves. They are sticking up you’re a--.

4) It requires at least one plan to pay for abortions. That, in turn, is funded by a surtax on your premiums for the public plan.

5) The Congressional Budget Office has said that this will insure at least 2.5 million illegal aliens. There is no enforcement mechanism to prevent it.

6) The Cost Effectiveness Board is still in place. This will determine whether or not you are too old to receive the best treatment available. Folks, this is the real death panel.

7) It creates over 130 new government bureaucracies. Who do you think is going to pay for all of those new government employees? And if you think they can do such a great job at handling your health care needs…try to get a flu shot.

I never thought I would see this day where a small cabal of leftists, making up about 20% of the population, hijacks our country.

The leftist leaders in Congress and the White House are ignoring the lessons currently being taught in New Jersey and Virginia. There will be hell to pay for Pelosi, Reid, Obama and Democratic Party in the next election, unless they try to stack the ballots, which is a possibility. That is how they operate. But read the article written by Fred Barnes on the main web site, and truly try to understand the consequences when the government ignores the wishes of the majority of the population in pursuit of ideological purity. It leads to tyranny, and to violence.

God Bless America.