Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
September 24, 2013
As a presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama promised : “In an Obama administration, we’ll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year….. We’ll do it by the end of my first term as President of the United States.”
Last July, President Obama spoke this week at a press conference at the White House, to defend the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare), saying that rebates to Americans makes it cost effective.
Obama said: “Generally speaking, what we’ve seen is that health care costs have slowed drastically in a lot of areas since we passed the Affordable Care Act. We have a lot more work to do, but health care inflation isn’t sky-rocketing the way it was.”
Claiming that there are those who want the legislation to fail, Obama advised: “You’re getting better protections. You’re getting more value for each dollar that you spend on your health care.”
Obama remarked: “I bet if you took a poll, most folks wouldn’t know when that check comes in that this was because of Obamacare that they got this extra money in their pockets.”
Surrounding the president at the press conference were people who had received rebates from insurers. This way Obama could give the impression that his healthcare law was working in favor of the people.
Obama stated that “even people who haven’t received rebates are benefiting from the law because it has helped slow the cost of health care.”
In reality, Obamacare will cost $621 billion to American citizens by current estimations.
It has been reported that “healthy consumers could see insurance rates double or even triple when they look for individual coverage under the federal health law later this year.”
Indeed, as time goes on, Obamacare costs will increase to astronomical heights – leading to an annual cost of $784 by 2022 for the average American family.
On October 1st, an estimated 25 million Americans will be covered under Obamacare which will insure 7 million Americans currently without health insurance.
At the beginning of 2014, Medicaid programs for low-income families will be expanded.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says that it needs more than 4,000 new agents to assist in enforcing the mandates of Obamacare and $300 million dollars in infrastructure needed to force Americans to purchase government issued healthcare.
The IRS claims it needs the exorbitant amounts of money to “continue the development of new systems and modifications of existing systems required to support new tax credits.”
It is more likely that the IRS will use these funds to spy on Americans who refuse or fail to purchase Obamacare health coverage with the intention of fining US citizens.
Another justification for the large budget plan for the IRS is to require tanning facilities, health salons, health clubs, beauty parlors and businesses alike to pay a tax similar to those attributed to alcohol and tobacco.
This 10% tax will require the use of 81 agents according to the IRS.
Perry Pugno, president for medical education for the American Academy for Family Physicians (AAFP) explained: “It’s like we’re handing out bus tickets and the bus is already full. The shortfall of primary-care access is not an insignificant problem, and it’s going to get worse.”
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) will not be reporting a complete list of health insurance plans until October 1st.
Confusion between states that are “running their own [healthcare] exchanges” and those that are “letting the federal government handle that task” is compounding the problems that are quickly mounting in preparation for America’s first socialized medicine.
The Obama administration has released guidelines that will be implemented by January 2014 and explain what type of programs employers can use as incentives to make sure their employees get healthy.
According to the get healthy guidelines:
- Employers can charge employees 30% more to cover group cost plans
- Employees that quit smoking, lose weight, lower cholesterol and lower body mass index (BMI) can receive a cessation of up to 50%
- Employers can monetarily punish employees for unhealthy habits and reward those who try to change their ways
- Employees can be told to attend a health education seminar
Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA commented that: “These rules will help ensure that wellness programs are designed to actually promote wellness, and that they are not just used as a backdoor way to shift health-care costs to those struggling with health problems.”
Pollack continued : “Wellness programs have become an increasingly popular component of job-based health coverage [and] provide a number of essential consumer protections that will limit employers’ ability to use wellness incentives as a subterfuge for discriminating against people with certain health conditions by charging them higher health care costs.”
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