Call The Health Care Bill What It Is
By Wes Keene | March 21, 2010 | In Category: Health Care
As the most important health care vote looms near, politicians on the left are pulling out all the stops to pass their bill. They say that in war the first casualty is the truth. If that’s true, the possibly the nation is at war. It’s one thing to support a destruction of insurance companies. That much can be explained by ill-founded left-wing ideology. It’s something else entirely to liken a health bill to something much more important to our country, civil rights.
Everyone from the House Speaker to lower ranking members of the House to our President have directly or indirectly likened the bill to more defensible legislation protecting the rights of black Americans. It’s a stretch to say this bill will even benefit anyone directly, except government. To compare it favorably to civil rights legislation is an outright abomination. Black Americans, and indeed, all Americans have certain human rights no one can deny them. Not included in that list is free health care. While the nation was moving in the right direction on the civil rights bill, we are most certainly moving away from freedom with this bill. It’s ironic to hear proponents of freedom restricting laws praise a bill that promised more freedoms to minorities decades ago.
So what is the bill? While no one can look you in the eye and tell you everything that 2,000 pages of legislation will do, here’s what we do know will happen between now and 2014:
- Taxes go up. Cadillac health plans pay higher taxes (if you aren’t a member of a union). You’ll also pay Medicare taxes on investment income, for the first time in our history.
- Kids will have to be accepted into insurance plans, no matter what conditions they have. That will jack premiums for children up (assuming somewhere in the thousands of pages we don’t have price controls).
- Uninsured Americans will be forced to purchase insurance or face a 2% (of salary) fine.
- Employers who don’t buy their employees insurance will pay fines. That means employers will slow down hiring or halt entirely.
In summary, we have a job killing, insurance destroying, premium hiking bill. If you support that, that’s fine. Most conservatives would think you’re wrong, but you’re entitled to your opinion. Just don’t call it civil rights, and don’t regurgitate Democrat party talking points about cost savings that no one can prove.
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