Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Despite a majority of Americans showing consistent opposition to Obamacare, according to poll results from Real Clear Politics, it has been passed and signed into law. This means that 35 million more Americans are going to be insured, parents can keep their children on their insurance plans up to the age of 26 and insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for preexisting conditions.
At this point, many people who operate on talking points and emotional appeals rather than reality are sold. However, others seek more information: Sounds great, but what price do we pay to receive these benefits?
We are told we will see the largest middle class tax cut in history. Not only is it deficit neutral, but it will actually reduce the deficit by $100 billion over the next decade and more than $1 trillion in the second decade. It will also rein in waste, fraud and abuse in the system.
Anyone who will take a second to stop and think, rather than be swept along by eloquent rhetoric, can understand that this is too good to be true.
But with a media that sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil when it comes to Obama, the gimmicks rule the day. Pulling off this kind of swindle makes Bernie Madoff look like an amateur.
Since when does a massive government entitlement program reduce the deficit? How can 32 million patients be added to the system without rationing care, especially at a time when doctors are already in short supply?
Is ensuring universal coverage at the expense of the entire healthcare system worth it? The system is broken, yet our government is about to guarantee 35 million more to the ranks of the insured. Obamacare isn’t going to help the uninsured. Rather, it is going to force those who already have insurance to rely on a system that is broken — essentially uninsuring the insured.
Doctors are already denying Medicaid patients and they are beginning to deny some Medicare patients as well. What is going to be different about this much bigger government program?
Add Social Security to Medicaid, Medicare, the post office, Amtrak, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and you get a track record of consistent government failure. There is no successful test case of our government running any business and making it more efficient or better quality.
But the unwavering faith the left has for the government to solve everything they deem to be a “social ill” is quite astonishing.
The audacity to pass this legislation with complete disregard for the public sentiment that was clearly against it and the manner in which it was forced through with blatant and shameless bribery and loaded with broken campaign promises will haunt the Democrats this November and for elections to come.
For many, the decision to ignore the people and vote for the 2,300 page monstrosity was a decision to walk the plank for the Obama presidency.
Democrats may have won this battle, but they are certainly losing the war.
Compton is a senior from Wichita in political science.
— Compton is a senior from Wichita in history and political science.
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The liberals on here never provide evidence either, dude. It's an op/ed.
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Umm...the liberals did provide evidence, which was confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office. Mr. Compton cited this evidence before deciding he just doesn't believe in it. That's fine--if the facts don't fit your beliefs, don't believe in those facts.
Compton: Win the battle, lose the war
For evidence you have to connect the dots; the CBO is only concerned with the cost not the constitutionality. Their INITIAL report says that the cost of the bill will come in under 1 trillion dollars and save 138 billion over the FIRST decade. It was designed to come up with those numbers because this is what they could not or would not report on; the first four years of the decade would be about collecting taxes to offset the following six years of benefits. There are next to no benefits paid for by government the first four years. Any benefits are MANDATED by the government to be picked up by the insurance companies. If you average out the entire ten years and compare it to the following ten years then the bill bust the bank by being over 1 trillion dollars. This was reported by the CBO in a follow up report and they noted that a "fix" was necessary to make things work. The "doctor fix" was required to be added to the bill and the cost of that was 250 billion dollars. So the final cost of the bill is more like 1.3 trillion dollars and that is called a budget buster. FYI the CBO has never got one of these things right. They always miss on the downside so expect this bill to cost a few trillion dollars. Do you happen to have that money on you? Better hope so because you will be paying for it for the next 60 years.
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