Obama’s universal healthcare passed was put into effect today, March 23. No, I am not racist, and no, I am not a Republican. My political stance is neutral since I support who I think is best. Even so, I still don’t like this universal healthcare plan. Why? Here are 5 of my stances.
1. Our nation’s growing debt
As of the end of 2009, our debt was approximately USD 12 trillion. (This even is rounding down more money than what Bill Gates and Warren Buffet hold combined.) Apparently, approximately $100 billion a year will be spent on this act. It is estimated we will get our money back by the end of 2020, but I don’t believe this. Why?
2. More taxes imposed on higher-income people
Obama proposed this a lot earlier, too, and this will up the taxes even more. People supported his belief in this because 1) the rich (Bernard Madoff) ruined the economy, 2) the poor are getting poorer, and 3) they were in that 95%. The problem is, the higher-income people also make our jobs, etc. If the higher-income people can’t pay people to do their jobs, guess what? Outsourcing happens. Soon most jobs will be outsourced and…
3. We will lose our white-collar and middle-class jobs
White-collar jobs involve the tech support, the programmers, the manufacturing plants (they’re all in China anyways), the marketing analysts, etc. When these are gone, the people who worked hard to earn good degrees will go away.
4. The lowest 25% will lose their jobs
The people who mow your lawn, clean your house, etc will lose their jobs out of middle-class frugality. Only the rich will afford it.
5. All our money is now outsourced
It’s all in the overseas people. The businesses will eventually move overseas out of lack of consumers and we’ll all be on Obamacare. You know what, that doesn’t sound too bad. Nobody has to work! XD
Of course, this is very exaggerated. Most likely, the taxes on the rich will lose only a few jobs. At least everyone lives, right? But if taxes on higher-income people go up (which they will once Obamacare is long enough) we’ll have barely enough jobs for the people of Colorado.
So, what do you think?
If you like Obamacare, why?
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You need to also note who will be responsible in overseeing this–the IRS. Under the proposed health care legislation, they would get another assignment: checking to see whether Americans have health insurance.
The legislation would require most Americans to have health insurance and to prove it on their federal tax returns. Those who don’t would pay a penalty to the IRS.
ADDED RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the current versions of the health care bills, the IRS would oversee:
• Subsidies for low-income people purchasing health insurance through newly created state exchanges.
• Small-business tax credits to provide insurance to employees,
• Enforcement of mandate that all U.S. citizens and legal residents have insurance.
• Penalties on employers for not providing affordable coverage if any of their employees get subsidies under the new insurance exchanges.
• A tax on insurers that provide high-cost “Cadillac” insurance benefits.
• Penalties for improper distributions from Health Savings Accounts, which would increase under the legislation.
• Contributions to Flexible Savings Accounts, which would be limited.
• New requirements for non-profit hospitals to prove their charitable missions, such as doing a “community needs assessment” once every three years.
• Taxes on pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies and health insurance providers.
Source: Kaiser Health News
Why must everyone have healthcare? Lower income people have been supporting themselves for thousands of years in every way without needing the “help” of the government. All this does it take away people’s drive to succeed because they know that even if they cant afford it or maybe dont even want it, they will continue to survive in an already over-crowded world.
I agree. Have you ever realized what happens to good privately owned companies when the government takes control of them? Look at social security for example. The government almost destroyed it… The USPS: almost crashed. When the USPS was privately owned it functioned great. When healthcare is owned by the government, it becomes up to the government whether or not that person is going to be cured of their sickness, disease, cancer, etc.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_ibd-canadian_doctor_describes_how.htm
this is an interesting read… very scary prospect!
Now I don’t want to seem like an extremist in any political party, but doesn’t all of this sound strangely familiar?
Universal Healthcare was one of the building blocks of communism, as is taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor to equalize the amount of money everyone has.
I’m not implying anything about Obama, but I think the US Government needs to have a closer look at world history in the last few hundred years.
Especially what happened in Boston. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/us/16hospital.html
I’m not paying taxes so that a person that blows off all their money on drugs and alcohol etc. can have free health care and live a happy life while the rest of work hard to earn money to pay taxes that pay for their healthcare. I’m also not giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants! You realize what he’s doing by cutting medicare is KILLING OFF THE OLD!!!!
Exactly. It’s forced donation.
My God… such scaremongering in these comments.
Healthcare (a human right, mind) may well be a building block of communism. But I’d like to point out that public schools are, too and so on so forth.
Who gives a damn if someone is an illegal immigrant. You’d rather have them die?
I don’t think that’s the real issue though (unless you believe Glenn Beck). Look at the healthcare system we have in the UK. It works. In fact, it’s GREAT (ranking much higher than America’s own).
Then there’s the argument people are using… “since when has the government ever FORCED people to buy a product?” which is plain old retarded. Car insurance for example, is mandatory in the huge majority of states.
It’s called social responsibility. Bite the bullet and stop the tea-partying.
I don’t like Glenn Beck either.
The reason we are such a large superpower is because we can fund projects that progress us.
Sure, public schools build communism, but they also form a generation of new workers that can think. Read the following article on when Boston attempted this
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/us/16hospital.html