Families With A Special-Needs Member Will Suffer Under Health Care Reform Bill
Posted: Friday, November 27, 2009
by Joel Hendon
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The administration's efforts to put forth a comprehensive health care reform plan is recognized as being an extremely expensive undertaking. And regardless of what they say concerning it being deficit neutral, that is a bunch of malarkey...and they all know it. Their claims that they can find savings from Medicare, Medicaid and other areas, first of all, will not do the trick, and if it should...it would destroy those programs. They know that also. In the Harry Reid' bill it also has a provision to limit pre-tax dollars being set aside for special-needs out-of-pocket monies to $2,500.
The expectation here is that it will bring in about $15 billion dollars in extra tax payments over a decade. That with an estimated $400-500 billion from cuts in Medicare, plus fines for those who refuse to buy insurance and taxes on other items is expected to furnish enough to cover the fallacious estimate of under $1 trillion cost of the plan. Every price quote they give out is a miserable effort to pull the wool over the eyes of the voter.
The federal debt has been growing without pause since 1969. As the years progress, it is gaining momentum. The interest we now pay on our exorbitant indebtedness is our second largest annual outlay, behind only Health and Human Services. More than our defense expense. Just consider what we could do if that were eliminated. But on the flip side, consider the burden when it doubles!
We are now at the point where our creditors are beginning to seriously question our ability to repay our debts. And, so do I. It is projected that we will face deficit spending of about one trillion dollars per year for the next decade. Wrong! The way we are heading, it will be much larger than that. And much longer than that. The healthcare reform proposal will furnish that much and our other wild spending and taxation levels will slow the economy...causing much less GDP, will very probably cause two to three trillion deficit per year. We now have in excess of twelve trillion on which to pay interest. It is very possible and quite likely that this will more than double in the next decade unless our proposals are changed. When our interest itself becomes the largest annual expense we have, and it lacks very little being there, we will face severe consequences. The dollar, which is falling in value steadily, will become worthless and a new world standard will be in place.
Our healthcare reform aspirations may be noble, but they are cost prohibitive and should be basically laid aside until we are in a more stable financial condition. Some regulations could be instituted which will cost very little and which will rectify some of the ills in our present system. I urge you to put some pressure on your legislators.
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)Good work Joel. Keep putting out the word on this disaster.Thanks Jim, for reading and commenting. I plan to do just that.
Nice job, Joel; We went from a surplus of three trillion under Clinton to a five trillion deficit under Bush.That's Eight Trillion reasons enough to avoid Republicans like the plague.(Does this 'special needs' category include children who suffered permanent injury from childhood beatings about the head?)You are in for eight trillion whuppings boy.And, I never had a beating around the head. That's beatings. Where I was hit, is called whuppings. I got one punch on the jaw in my whole life, hard enough to make my nose bleed. (that was while in the army--not from parents.) I didn't even hit the drunk back. It made me so mad, I just flew.And, I'll tell you something else. Any success Bill Clinton had, can be traced straight to Hillary for upsetting the people so, with a healthcare plan similar to this present one, which put the congress full of good budget balancing Republicans. Newt Gingrich is responsible for the budget balancing spurt. Then it started down and George Bush inherited the down trend. Just to keep the record straight. It certainly takes a lot to keep you straight.Clinton was the only President to have a balanced budget.Five trillion in the hole when Clinton was ahead Two trillion says it all for Bush.You're correct in one respect with reference to 'special needs'; we should be very proud of our nation, a country that gives such equal treatment under the law that a Republican with both drug habits and Down's Syndrome was elected to be the Commander-In -Chief.The Republican party is the party of BAD ideas and the Democratic party is the party of NO ideas; the only thing that's worse is when these pinheads work together.Newt Gingrich is merely a Republican recipe for a ginger-flavored salamander dish clearly unsuitable for anyone's palate.If Hillary had truly done her job Monica Lewinsky would have never stepped up to the plate to pinch hit.Aren't there ANY redneck Democrats, down yonder?The south was called the "Solid South", democratic from 1932 until about 1960. Most are still registered as Democrats but vote against abortion, big government.And, Clinton would never have had a balanced budget had Hillary's plan, which he backed, had passed. He, and you, can thank Newt, whether or not you like him, for the balanced budget. If you'll check back and study the situation, you'll see that I am right.But your next to last sentence is 100%.
O personally feel we need to make sure that Sarah takes up on behalf of WE the PEOPLE - how does that sit with you? Reading her book....MarijoHi Marijo, thanks for commenting. I haven't read her book, I would personally like to see some person with more good conservative background than her. But she stands for the correct principles and she did well as governor in putting a stop to a bunch of corruption, some of which was within her own party. About all the liberals give her credit for is her daughter's out-of wedlock baby. Shows both their intellect and their decency.I was totally in favor of Alan Keys....ah, well, MARANATHA for sure!!!Thanks Marijo. I wish he could have won.Somebody I was talking to the other day said he was too good (pure?) to be an American president... sad times.
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18 fans. Follow efoghorjos on twitter!Every noble idea without a proper foundation will end up causing more harms than the intended good. Thanks for your write-up.Thank you Efoghor, for reading my article and commenting. Also, welcome to Searchwarp
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