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Obamacare: You Will Lose Your Current Insurance. Period. End of Story.
by: Bill Dupray posted: 2009-07-20 14:21:00
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Heritage has crunched the numbers on ObamaCare and it is not even debatable that you are virtually assured of losing your current health insurance under his program. These numbers are devastating and are proof-positive Obama is lying through his teeth.
“If you like health your plan, you can keep it, the only thing that will change is that you’ll pay less.” Remember that? Well, according to the new Lewin study:* Approximately 103 million people would be covered under the new public plan and as a consequence about 83.4 million people would lose their private insurance. This would represent a 48.4 percent reduction in the number of people with private coverage.
* About 88.1 million workers would see their current private, employer-sponsored health plan go away and would be shifted to the public plan.
* Yearly premiums for the typical American with private coverage could go up by as much as $460 per privately insured person, as a result of increased cost-shifting stemming from a public plan modeled on Medicare.
It is still mind-boggling how anyone, literally anyone, believes that a government-run program can provide better benefits at a lower cost than the private sector. We have all the proof we need that these things don't work with Medicare. And yet everybody in the MSM studiously avoids the elephant in the living room. We have this thing by the throat. The polls are breaking badly against it and we need to keep the pressure on Congress so that we can kill this hideous beast before it destroys us.
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- Bill Dupray - American Conservative – AP fact-checks the speech: Obama was pretty much lying through his teeth - True/Slant
- Bill Dupray - American Conservative – WaPo: By the way, Obama’s whole “If you like your plan, you can keep it” schtick is a lie - True/Slant
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Bill… this is the part in section 1233 of HR 3200 that bothers me:
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H.R. 3200
Sec. 1233. ADVANCED CARE PLANNING CONSULTATION.
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(b) EXPANSION OF PHYSICIAN QUALITY REPORTING INITIATIVE FOR END OF LIFE CARE.
(1) PHYSICIAN’S QUALITY REPORTING INITIATIVE.—
Section 1848(k)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395w–4(k)(2)) is amended
by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
(3) PHYSICIAN’S QUALITY REPORTING INITIATIVE.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of reporting data on quality measures for covered professional services furnished during 2011 and any subsequent year, to the extent that measures are available, the Secretary shall include quality measures on end of life care and advanced care planning that have been adopted or endorsed by a
consensus-based organization, if appropriate. Such measures shall measure both the creation of and adherence to orders for life-sustaining treatment.
(B) PROPOSED SET OF MEASURES.—
The Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register proposed quality measures on end of life care and advanced care planning that the Secretary determines are described in subparagraph (A) and would be appropriate for eligible professionals to use to submit data to the Secretary. The Secretary shall provide for a period of public comment on such set of measures before finalizing such proposed measures.
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Having worked in multinational corporations for decades, anytime I see the words “quality reporting”, “measures”, “metrics”, etc…. that causes flags to start going up in my head. The translation for this is that whatever metrics are adopted (notice they aren’t putting that in here right now), there will be continuous improvement metrics associated with the measurements.
So, if one of the metrics is how many seniors are essentially euthanized versus being placed on life-extending treatments, the continuous improvement will be there needs to be an ever higher percentage of seniors being euthanized over time. If a facility is not meeting the metrics for a specific time period, they will have their funding cut.
It is one thing to have a set of advanced directives in place. My wife and I already have that. I went through that with both my grandmother and my father. So, I understand not wanting doctors to keep you on some machine when there is no hope… and not placing family members in situations where they have to make the gut-wrenching decisions I never communicated to anyone.
But, with the above paragraphs, I can tell where this is heading in a government-controlled system. It is basically a way to systematically kill off the senior population.