Bloomberg reporting on the "health care overhaul" that is going on under your nose but being hidden behind the Sotomayor farce.
President Barack Obama may rely only on Democrats to push health-care legislation through the U.S. Congress if Republican opposition doesn’t yield soon, two of the president’s top advisers said. “Ultimately, this is not about a process, it’s about results,” David Axelrod, Obama’s senior political strategist, said during an interview in his White House office. “If we’re going to get this thing done, obviously time is a-wasting.” ...House Democrats today unveiled legislation totaling about $1 trillion that would expand health care to millions of Americans over the next decade by raising taxes on the wealthiest households. The Senate has yet to agree on a bill as Democratic lawmakers struggle to get Republican support.
The AP reported on how they are going to slam it through, without partisan support or even the knowledge of everyday Americans. Transparency be damned.
House Democratic leaders, pledging to meet the president's goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and the wealthy."We cannot allow this issue to be delayed. We cannot put it off again," Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, said Tuesday. "We, quite frankly, cannot go home for a recess unless the House and the Senate both pass bills to reform and restructure our health care system.The legislation calls for a 5.4 percent tax increase on individuals making more than $1 million a year, with a gradual tax beginning at $280,000 for individuals. Employers who don't provide coverage would be hit with a penalty equal to 8 percent of workers' wages, with an exemption for small businesses. Individuals who decline an offer of affordable coverage would pay 2.5 percent of their incomes as a penalty, up to the average cost of a health insurance plan.If this isn't socialism I don't know what is. Let's force people to pay for insurance even if they don't want it? It doesn't make sense for some people. There is a reason some small business owners don't have it now, and there will be those who don't want to support such a mockery of Democracy, but will be essentially forced to or get their money confiscated by Big Brother. Besides that, when government health care is soon to be all that's available, they're going to just pay for private clinics anyway, just like Canadians.
The liberal-leaning plan lacked figures on total costs, but a House Democratic aide said the total bill would add up to about $1.5 trillion over 10 years. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private calculations.The 1,000-page bill is unlikely to attract any Republican backing, and business groups and the insurance industry immediately assailed it as a job-killer.Yes, another thousand page bill. Do you honestly believe any member of Congress is going to read this travesty? Oh, and another 1.5 trillion dollars will be spent. Where are we going to get that kind of money? Not from the meager taxes imposed upon the "wealthy", that's for sure. And if you really think the Democrat-reported cost figure is at all accurate then you've got another thing coming.
This is the same government that can't even hand out driver's licenses without making it complicated. Look at the state of our public schools. Who wants that in your health care? And just in case you're still not convinced, here's a diagram of the bureaucratic nightmare that is government run health care: (click on the link for a PDF)
http://docs.house.gov/gopleader/House-Democrats-Health-Plan.pdf
