Investor's Business Daily has a great series of articles on Obama's health care fiasco filled with eye-opening facts that may send you into cardiac arrest. (Have your attack quick before rationing kicks in!) I'll post a few quotes to give you a small taste of what's there. Pass the information on to those who have swallowed Obama's rotten fish whole.We have a health care crisis.
"No, we don't....85% of the population, or 258 million people, polls show high satisfaction with the current coverage. Indeed, a 2006 poll by ABC News, the Kaiser Family Foundation and USA Today found 89% of Americans were happy with their own health care.As for the estimated 47 million not covered by health insurance, 20 million can afford to buy it, according to a study by former CBO Director June O'Neill. Most of the other 27 million are single and under 35, with as many as a third illegal aliens. When it's all whittled down, as few as 12 million are unable to buy insurance — less than 4% of a population of 305 million. For this we need to nationalize 17% of our nation's $14 trillion economy and change the current care that 89% like?"
It's been tried and it doesn't work!
"Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted a law that required every resident to have medical insurance. Commonwealth Care was created to subsidize those who couldn't afford to buy their own. It didn't take long for the program, which never achieved coverage for everyone, to run into trouble.
"Costs soared from $158 million in the first year to $630 million in 2007, then doubled in 2009 to $1.3 billion. Enrollment in the program has also surged. It stands at roughly 181,000, up from 165,000 in the early spring, and is projected to reach 212,000 next year."
Not enough incubators or beds under Canada's socialized program.
"In 2007, a Canadian woman gave birth to extremely rare identical quadruplets — Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia Jepps. They were born in the United States to Canadian parents because there was again no space available at any Canadian neonatal care unit....In 2007, there were at least 40 mothers and their babies who were airlifted from British Columbia alone to the U.S. because Canadian hospitals didn't have room. It's worth noting that since 2000, 42 of the world's 52 surviving babies weighing less than 400g (0.9 pounds) were born in the U.S....in Canada roughly 900,000 patients of all ages are waiting for beds, according to the Fraser Institute."
If you needed the best health care in the world, where would you go to get it? The facts say:
• "Survival rates in the U.S. for common cancers are higher, and in some cases much higher, than in Europe and Canada.
• "Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed nations and spend less time waiting for care than Canadians and Britons.
• "Americans have more access to new medical technologies than Canadians and United Kingdom residents, and are responsible for most health care innovations.
• "Americans are more satisfied with their care than their counterparts in nations with socialized medicine."
Get Ready for a Middle Class Tax Hike!
"Read the bill's fine print. Those earning less than $250,000 will be hit with new taxes, too. Those who don't sign up for health care, for instance, will be taxed up to 2.5% of their income. Small businesses that don't have health plans will have to pay up to 8% of their payroll as a 'fee.' These new taxes will have a devastating effect on the economy. According to the National Tax Foundation, the top total tax rate on Americans — that is, state, local and federal taxes — will top 50% in 39 states.
"Will entrepreneurs and small businesses expand and create new jobs if they know more than half what they earn will be taken by government? Not likely.
"Two million jobs have been lost this year. If you think that, and 9.5% unemployment, is bad, wait till health reform passes."
And finally -- Why the Rush?
"A pattern is emerging for this new presidency. The more radical and far-reaching the plan, the less time the public gets to debate it. Is this due to ambition or fear of push-back?...Where is Ross Perot when we need him? The eccentric Texan got a few things wrong in his political career, but he got at least one thing right with one of his favorite sayings: Measure twice, cut once. This is wisdom that the Obama administration and the Democratic leadership in Congress seem totally to have forgotten."
Take a look at this great series of articles. When you finish, you'll have the facts at your fingertips to refute the myths and outright lies coming out of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid spin machine.
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