Summary of What is needed in Health Care Bill

With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people’s money. These deficits are simply not sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new taxes and inflation, or they will bankrupt us.
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:
• Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs).
• Equalize the tax laws so that that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits.
• Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines.
• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover.
• Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
• Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost.
• Enact Medicare reform.
• Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren’t covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Health Care plan will allow federal dollars to pay for abortions!

Non-partisan entities like the Associated Press, FactCheck.org, and Time have confirmed that ObamaCare will allow all abortions to be covered by the public plan and by federally-subsidized private plans. The government will collect the necessarily-higher premiums (which we will be required to pay), receive bills from abortionists, and then send the abortionists payment checks from a federal treasury account.

"Triggers," the latest twist in ObamaCare

In order to get ObamaCare enacted, Democrats are now proposing a “trigger” to create a single payer option if private insurers fail to pass specific benchmarks in the economy of health care. Democrat bureaucrats will specify those benchmarks; and they will very probably be impossible for private insurers to meet. So…this is just another ploy to get a single payer system in place for our health care.
Every version of ObamaCare being considered will turn private insurers into subsidiaries of Congress. H.R. 3200 would appoint a “health choices commissioner,” who will have the final say about premiums, deductibles, and copays. That commissioner will, no doubt, have the final say so about rationing of health care dollars, too.

Health insurance cooperative?

The recently touted discontinuation of the “public option,” and its replacement by federally chartered insurance cooperatives is only a way of replacing the “public option” with another federal government grab by controlling money flow through a new agency placed between the federal government and the private insurers. The feds will still control the money under this kind of arrangement by setting up an insurance Fannie Mae system of money control.