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I think it important, when two people hold opposing views, that identification is made. My profile speaks to what I hold dear, but I will further clarify. I believe in Individual Freedom, individual responsibility and self determination. I believe that the best document to achieve that end is the Constitution. I do not believe that you or I have a right to health care, education, a house or to work, but I do believe that under the Constitution you have right to achieve all these things and more. Now, perhaps, you can clarify your position.
'Now, add it all up, and the plan that I’m proposing will cost around $900 billion over 10 years.' This is an Obama quote from 2009 while addressing a joint session of Congress.
The original projected cost of the ACA, according to the CBO was just short of one trillion dollars for the first ten years, which was to be offset by revenues of 1.3 trillion generated from fees and Penalties. This was in 2010 and in 2011 the new CBO projection was 1.4 trillion and in 2012 that cost rose to 1.8 trillion. Now the CBO forecast for the same period is 2.6 trillion, per the Weekly Standard.
“Under the ACA, most legal residents must get health insurance or pay a penalty. CBO and JCT estimate that 30 million will be uninsured in 2016, but most will be exempt from the penalty; 4 million will make payments totaling $4 billion.” With this figure from the CBO, those 4 million people will have premiums of about $14,000 per year. The government will also throw in penalties for refusal to buy this insurance, which is just another tax forced tax for a product you do not want. This does not take into account new deductibles ranging on low cost policies of $9,000 and for the step up Silver policies from $2,000to $4,000 and for the top of the line, which most cannot afford, a small or do deductible.
“Moreover, the latest enrollment figures on Obamacare suggest that there may be some consumer resistance to high deductibles under the new law. Some 80% of all those who have enrolled in plans nationwide, according to federal statistics released today, have chosen a silver plan, meaning deductibles of $2,000 for singles and $4,000 for families, or gold or platinum plans, which have no deductibles. Only 18% have opted for bronze plans, which offer lower premiums, balanced by deductibles of $4,500/$9,000.” The Los Angeles Times.
You can keep your own Doctor
"Depending on the plan you choose in the Marketplace, you may be able to keep your current doctor." The bottom line is that Obamacare guarantees neither. Doctors may be only available through certain networks, just as in the current system. And only plans that existed in their current form on March 23, 2010, are even eligible to be "kept." The vast majority of plans will be new, subject to a raft of new regulations, requirements, and restrictions.
Now that Health and Human Services has confirmed that the suspicions of Obamacare opponents were justified, the Obama administration will have some explaining to do to friends and foes of the law alike. Because now everyone is finding out "what in it" The Weekly Standard
The Ebola patient was not turned away the first visit because of any insurance and he was not a US Citizen.
It is difficult to address any specific point with any degree of certainty due to the ambiguity with which the law was written. Minute portions of the law, which can have a great impact on the individual, are basically in the hands and under the authority of bureaucrats that cannot be held accountable by the tax payer. The law has been changed by Obama, illegally, several times to lessen the political impact on the Democratic Party, as well as hiding it from the voter until after the November elections.
The roll out of the ACA, as botched as it was cost the taxpayer $6 Billion dollars, seven times the projected cost, and it is still malfunctioning. News reports in the last few days indicate that the system has been hacked and the government is powerless or competent enough to prevent it.
I have only listed a few things here, but I will be happy to continue, as we have not discussed the questionable enrollment figures, that 15 million lost their insurance and only 8 million have , maybe, signed up with 20 to 30% of thos put on medicad.
