Obama Health Plan
Another Mistake for America?

Obama Health Plan is another Bill the administration is trying to shove through congress. What's the rush? Maybe they don't want us to see how well government has done with health care so far.

The current health care system, even though, in need of adjustment is the Best Health Care System in the World. Unlike the Obama Health Plan Model which has failed both here and abroad.

Soaring costs put decent health care for the less fortunate CITIZENS out of reach. There are OTHER, inexpensive ways to correct the system. We can start by giving American CITIZENS the ability to shop health care across State lines and create, what this Country was founded on, a competitive free market. Competition is what brings price down. Representatives thinking of tweaking the Obama Health Plan should consider this type option.

The key to the above statement is the word citizens. With the Government's grace, Illegal Immigrants have devastated State and Federal health care systems across the nation. But when approached on this topic Government officials avoid addressing the issue at all cost. Dealing with the issue would free up hundreds of millions of dollars in health care for tax paying Americans.

Doesn't ILLEGAL mean a law has been broken? Why won't anyone in Washington step up and recognize the issue and deal with the problem.

The longer Americans look into the Obama Health Plan's 1000 page rats nest, the more bad things are being discovered on a daily basis. No wonder they are trying to jam this through like the UNREAD, PORK LADEN, NO POSITIVE RESULTS YET, STIMULUS PACKAGE. Fool us once shame on you, try to fool us twice it won't be good for you. Get those resumes ready!

Obama Health Plan has all the makings of a major medical and a financial disaster. At a bloated cost of over 1.5 TRILLION dollars over the next ten years and increases after that, the Plan increases tax payer burden for inferior medical service. Didn't they say, "lower cost to Americans"? The Government's own Congressional Budget Office considers the Bill a financial disaster. Plus, anytime the Government gives a cost projection it's usually way off target, most times by over 100%.

Two examples of Government run Health Plans are the Veterans Administration and the Massachusetts Health Care Plan, which is the model for the Obama Health Plan. Great!

The Veterans Administration Hospital system is in shambles. It can sometimes take months for a Veteran of our Armed Services to receive an EMERGENCY MRI. The red tape is ridiculous and Patient care is minimal at best. If the Government fails to take care of the Heroes of our Country, does anyone believe they will do better with this plan?

If you want to see how well the Government handles health care, do your own research. Start with V A Hospital Problems.

The Massachusetts Healthcare Plan is a very scary look into our healthcare future if the Obama Health plan were allowed to succeed. Following this piece is the best article we’ve found on this subject. It was written by Phyllis Schafly. A more in depth article on this subject and others can be found by following her link after the article.

After researching the Obama Health Plan for yourself, contact your Representatives and let them know how you feel. Here' the complete list of Government contacts.

If you have trouble composing letters to the government, the Vote for Business website does most of the research and composing for you. You can tweak the letter as you like and it automatically sends it to your specific Representatives.

For Political and Business issues, like the Obama Health Plan, this is a great organization to hook up with on a regular basis.

The Obama-Kennedy health plan is modeled after the Massachusetts plan which, when adopted, many applauded as innovative and destined for success. In fact, the Massachusetts plan has been a massive failure and is a model for what not to do.

It has increased costs. It has wasted taxpayer dollars. It has limited patients' choice. It has hurt small business. It has failed to achieve its goal of universal coverage. Most objectionable, it has created shortages and waiting lists.

Promoters predicted that the Massachusetts plan would lower health-care costs but, so far, costs are moving in the opposite direction. State government spending on health-care programs in Massachusetts has increased by 42 percent since the plan was adopted in 2006, and currently is 33 percent above the national average.

Advocates promised that the Massachusetts plan would make health insurance more affordable but, according to a Cato study, insurance premiums have been increasing at nearly double the national average: 7.4 percent in 2007, 8 to 12 percent in 2008, and an expected 9 percent increase this year. Health insurance in Massachusetts costs an average of $16,897 for a family of four, compared to a national average of $12,700.

The Massachusetts plan incorporates a system of middle-class subsidies called Commonwealth Care to help pay for insurance for families with incomes up to 300 percent of poverty level ($66,150 for a family of four), and also expanded eligibility for Medicaid.

The Massachusetts Connector, a new bureaucracy that was supposed to increase patient choice, has become an overbearing regulatory arm of government that has decreased competition by prescribing benefits insurance must offer. The Connector is evidently unpopular with patients, since only 18,000 people have used the Connector to buy insurance during the past three years.

The Connector has imposed regulations that add to the cost of insurance and limit consumer choice, such as requiring prescription-drug coverage and preventive-care services, restricting high-deductible policies, and putting limits on annual or per-sickness policies. Complying with the Connector's rules means changing from your current insurance that you like.

The costs to the taxpayers are rising, too, and one tax increase has not satisfied the appetite of the hungry plan. The prospect of huge deficits has elicited discussion of cuts in reimbursements to providers and the imposition of a "global budget," which is a euphemism for rationing.

Even though Massachusetts has more doctors per capita than any other state, the Boston Globe reports that waiting periods to see physicians have grown. The average wait is now 63 days to see a family doctor, 50 days to see a specialist, and the second trimester of pregnancy to see an obstetrician-gynecologist.

If you want to see the busiest, most popular physicians, the wait can be up to a year. The longer waits are the result of thousands of newly insured residents coming into the health-care system.

Massachusetts has reduced the number of uninsured, but there are no reliable figures on how many are still uninsured since some statistics are based on telephone surveys that don't reach significant groups of people who lack landline telephones (such as young people and illegal aliens). Cato estimates that 200,000 are still uninsured.

If the number of uninsured had been measurably reduced, that should be reflected in the use of hospitals' emergency care facilities for uncompensated care. But hospitals don't confirm this effect.

Small business is hurting, too. The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council ranks Massachusetts last of all the 50 states for business-friendly health-care policies.

A June 21 front-page article in the New York Times reported that one cancer unit in a Philadelphia Veterans Administration hospital bungled 92 of 116 prostate cancer treatments over six years (requiring these patients to undergo a second operation) before the errors were discovered. The real problem is that the government cannot run health care safely (or cheaper).

Canada is another model of what not to do. It's fortunate that Canada is so close to the United States because Canadians rely on American medicine for serious surgery.

De facto rationing in Canada is practiced by waiting lists rather than by using its realistic name. The Globe and Mail reports that the physician shortage is so acute that some towns hold lotteries to win a ticket granting access to the local doctor, and that Ontario sent 160 patients to New York and Michigan for emergency neurosurgery between 2006 and 2008.

Although President Obama told the American Medical Association that single-payer (government-controlled) health care works "pretty well" in other countries, no government has ever been able to run a health-care system as well as private enterprise. Less regulation of health care, not more government control, is the way to healthier Americans and lower costs.

You can Find more on this and other Hot topics at the Phyliss Schlafly Report on the Obama Health Plan

GOD BLESS AMERICA