Who is going to pay the
estimated $940 billion this Healthcare Bill is going to cost? It looks like
those with the money will once again be dishing out more cash. What happened to
American principles? If you work hard you should get to keep what you make and reap
the benefits of all the effort you put in. Apparently this no longer exists, as
free handouts are seen as a solution to the problem. We’re digging ourselves a
deeper hole; handouts may work in the short-run, but in the long-run we’re
simply making the problem worse. The American Dream is dying! But don’t worry,
under the new Healthcare Bill it can get all the care it needs. That is, if the
care it needs is available, there aren’t too many people in line and the
resources haven't completely used up.
Our unemployment rate has
been hovering around 10% (give or take) for a while now. What’s the best way to
get more people in the work force and bring down that unemployment rate? The
answer is raising taxes, of course (sarcasm). If companies who haven’t been
providing healthcare must now provide coverage money they will simply hire less
people, or pay their employees less money and take the cost of healthcare out
of their salary. Small businesses will go bankrupt and individuals who provide
their own health insurance will be forced to put a large sum of their earnings
towards their newly inquired and unwanted health bills. Any subsidies “promised”
by the U.S. government have to come from somewhere if the budget is ever going
to actually one day balance. Where, you might ask? I’ll give you one guess:
taxes! America is in debt and we don’t have the money to fund this Healthcare escapade.
Therefore the Medicare Payroll Tax will be increasing to include unearned
income which will largely affect the upper middle class citizens of this
country, and an Excise Tax will be added into the mix which will hurt insurance
companies. And we thought it was hard to find decent insurance before the
Healthcare Bill… think again.
I agree those without
healthcare coverage should have coverage; one’s health is extremely important.
But I do not agree with forcing people to do something they do not want to do. Also,
if our citizens have healthcare it does not mean we will all the sudden be a
healthier country. The Healthcare Bill is just another way for the rich to provide
more handouts, for the unemployment rate to increase, for small businesses to
suffer, for politicians to continue making false promises, for our right to decide
for ourselves to be taken away and for taxes will go up. But don’t worry; it’s all
Constitutional! At least that’s what we’re being told.
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ReplyDeleteI agree completely. I was shocked when the Affordable Care Act was passed. I am also deeply bothered by the precedent that this decision has established—that it is constitutional to deny individuals’ freedom of choice. Or should I use the terminology of the bill?—it is constitutional for the government to “penalize” Americans for making a certain choice. It seems to me that we have taken a step backwards in approving this legislation.
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Lauren – You make an excellent point. Now that our freedom of choice has been taken away, who knows what the government will do next. Looks like they’ll just start issuing monetary penalties to anyone who wants to do something not in line with what the government wants. This doesn’t sound like much of a democracy if you ask me.
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