As Barack Hussein Obama’s plan for health care reform heats up, Republicans in Congress are setting in motion their own plans to defeat the bill.
The Obama administration feels a “public option” government-run health insurance program is the best option to reform health care and drive down medical costs.
But Medicare and Medicaid are proof that the government has no business running health care.
Medicare and Medicaid aren’t even fully funded by the government — the programs are subsidized by taxpayers!
How many times have you had services — or even applications to Medicare and Medicaid denied?
The Wall Street Journal blog breaks it down for you:
…a public option will undercut private insurers and pass the tab to taxpayers and health providers just as it does in existing government-run programs. For example, Medicare pays hospitals 71% and doctors 81% of what private insurers pay.
Who covers the rest? Government passes the bill for the outstanding balance to providers and families not covered by government programs. This cost-shifting amounts to a forced subsidy. Families pay about $1,800 more a year for someone else’s health care as a result, according to a recent study by Milliman Inc. It’s also why many doctors limit how many Medicare patients they take: They can afford only so much charity care.
The reason the Obama administration is pushing so hard for socialized medicine is so they can drive private insurance companies out of business, which will result in a government monopoly on insurance. Doctors will be left with no choice but to accept money from the government — money that Obama has already said the government does not have.
Therefore, the only way to pay for Obama’s health plan is by raising taxes — another promise soon to be broken by Barack “Flip Flop” Obama.
