Misconceptions About Obamacare, Part 2
For my first time readers I will reinterate, "I completely affirm that health care is a human right. Everybody should have the right and access to health care. With this being said, there are many misconceptions about the Obamacare law."
There is a misconception that with the recent Supreme Court ruling that Obamacare will immediately go into effect. This is not true; the Obamacare law will not go into full effect to cover individuals until the year 2014. However, certain portions of the law do go into effect or already have gone into effect. There has already been money set aside for the Obamacare law. As a matter of fact, one of the debates was if the Obamacare law was struck down what is going to happen to the money already collected? Obviously, there's no need to discuss that matter. Since Obamacare is costly, it's clear money is having to be allocated ahead of time. Thereby, when Obamacare does take full effect in 2014; the tax hike won't seem as enormous as it really will be in the next year after it's been in place. The government loves to try and slowly ease citizens into complete takeovers which leave them with no other options or ways of dismantling a poor system already in place.
The Obamacare law has been emphasized to lower premiums on health care insurance. However, with the new evidence coming out by insurance companies right now; this statement is indeed false. Currently, some colleges and universities have already dropped insurance coverage for their students because insurance premiums have already doubled. Imagine how much health care is going to cost when the full Obamacare law goes into effect in 2014; when insurance companies are already doubling premiums now. Therefore, it's clearly obvious that Obamacare does not lower health care insurance premiums; it's raising premiums.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/15/catholic-university-drops-student-health-insurance-cites-obamacare/
The Obamacare law will give a tax credit to small businesses for providing health insurance to their employees. Unfortunately, the Obamacare law will hurt small businesses and employees of small businesses anyways. Let me explain. The Obamacare law requires business that have 50 or more employees to provide them with insurance coverage. If the employer does not provide insurance, then they will have to pay a tax penalty. With the doubling of insurance premiums, small businesses will not be able to afford to give insurance coverage to their employees. Therefore, small business owners could choose not to hire more than 50 employees, leading to less job creation. Also, small businesses could decide to let go of some employees so they have less than 50, leading to a rise in unemployment. Another possibility is that small businesses decide to go ahead and pay the penalty tax because even with the tax credit, providing insurance coverage for their employees is still too unaffordable.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1711204840001/what-does-health-care-ruling-mean-for-small-business
The Obamacare law expands medicare and medicaid to illegal immigrants as well. However, this is at the cost of cutting health care to these individuals. The expansion of medicare and medicaid actually have nothing to do with assisting U.S. citizens who currently do not have medical coverage. The expansion of medicare and medicaid in Obamacare is made to fund medical coverage for illegal immigrants. Make no mistake, I believe immigration reform needs to happen on a bipartisan level and I don't believe in discriminating against anybody based on immigration status. The point I am trying to make is the expansion of medicare and medicaid was not meant to cover more U.S. citizens. The expansion was made to cover illegal immigrants who will fall 133% below the poverty line. Thus, U.S. citizens will see cuts in their medicare and medicaid services at the expense for paying for illegal immigrants.
The problems in health care reform that both political parties believe need to be changed is unjust insurance company policies. The political parties agree on the fact that insurance companies need to cover people with pre-existing conditions, should not have the right to drop somebody due to a pre-existing condition or current health condition, and insurance coverage should be provided to dependents through the age of 25. The problem in the health care reform issues between the parties consist of the financial and freedom issues. Obamacare infringes on individual freedoms, raises taxes, insurance premiums, provides less coverage to U.S. citizens to support illegal immigrants, forces individuals who are not 133% below the poverty line to buy insurance they cannot afford, forces small business to buy insurance coverage they cannot afford or let employees go, forces individuals in health care to participate in abortions regardless of their religion or conscious rights, and forces insurance companies to provide abortion care regardless of their religion or conscious rights.
Romney, however, has experience in dealing with the health care system through Romneycare and knows how to reform it better. Romney believes in repealing obamacare in order to put into place a better system. A system which doesn't cut heath care coverage to medicare and medicaid or raise taxes. Granted Romneycare does have major flaws, but the fact remains is that Romney has more experience in implementing and fixing a health care system than Obama. Romney is for a health care system that doesn't infrige on the individual's rights and freedoms in the first amendment. If we want a fair and just health care system that doesn't cut medicare, medicaid, raise taxes, or infringe on our freedoms; then Romney is our guy. As far as his anti-gay stance is concerned, that's the reason why gay republicans, such as myself, exist.
There is a misconception that with the recent Supreme Court ruling that Obamacare will immediately go into effect. This is not true; the Obamacare law will not go into full effect to cover individuals until the year 2014. However, certain portions of the law do go into effect or already have gone into effect. There has already been money set aside for the Obamacare law. As a matter of fact, one of the debates was if the Obamacare law was struck down what is going to happen to the money already collected? Obviously, there's no need to discuss that matter. Since Obamacare is costly, it's clear money is having to be allocated ahead of time. Thereby, when Obamacare does take full effect in 2014; the tax hike won't seem as enormous as it really will be in the next year after it's been in place. The government loves to try and slowly ease citizens into complete takeovers which leave them with no other options or ways of dismantling a poor system already in place.
The Obamacare law has been emphasized to lower premiums on health care insurance. However, with the new evidence coming out by insurance companies right now; this statement is indeed false. Currently, some colleges and universities have already dropped insurance coverage for their students because insurance premiums have already doubled. Imagine how much health care is going to cost when the full Obamacare law goes into effect in 2014; when insurance companies are already doubling premiums now. Therefore, it's clearly obvious that Obamacare does not lower health care insurance premiums; it's raising premiums.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/15/catholic-university-drops-student-health-insurance-cites-obamacare/
The Obamacare law will give a tax credit to small businesses for providing health insurance to their employees. Unfortunately, the Obamacare law will hurt small businesses and employees of small businesses anyways. Let me explain. The Obamacare law requires business that have 50 or more employees to provide them with insurance coverage. If the employer does not provide insurance, then they will have to pay a tax penalty. With the doubling of insurance premiums, small businesses will not be able to afford to give insurance coverage to their employees. Therefore, small business owners could choose not to hire more than 50 employees, leading to less job creation. Also, small businesses could decide to let go of some employees so they have less than 50, leading to a rise in unemployment. Another possibility is that small businesses decide to go ahead and pay the penalty tax because even with the tax credit, providing insurance coverage for their employees is still too unaffordable.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1711204840001/what-does-health-care-ruling-mean-for-small-business
The Obamacare law expands medicare and medicaid to illegal immigrants as well. However, this is at the cost of cutting health care to these individuals. The expansion of medicare and medicaid actually have nothing to do with assisting U.S. citizens who currently do not have medical coverage. The expansion of medicare and medicaid in Obamacare is made to fund medical coverage for illegal immigrants. Make no mistake, I believe immigration reform needs to happen on a bipartisan level and I don't believe in discriminating against anybody based on immigration status. The point I am trying to make is the expansion of medicare and medicaid was not meant to cover more U.S. citizens. The expansion was made to cover illegal immigrants who will fall 133% below the poverty line. Thus, U.S. citizens will see cuts in their medicare and medicaid services at the expense for paying for illegal immigrants.
The problems in health care reform that both political parties believe need to be changed is unjust insurance company policies. The political parties agree on the fact that insurance companies need to cover people with pre-existing conditions, should not have the right to drop somebody due to a pre-existing condition or current health condition, and insurance coverage should be provided to dependents through the age of 25. The problem in the health care reform issues between the parties consist of the financial and freedom issues. Obamacare infringes on individual freedoms, raises taxes, insurance premiums, provides less coverage to U.S. citizens to support illegal immigrants, forces individuals who are not 133% below the poverty line to buy insurance they cannot afford, forces small business to buy insurance coverage they cannot afford or let employees go, forces individuals in health care to participate in abortions regardless of their religion or conscious rights, and forces insurance companies to provide abortion care regardless of their religion or conscious rights.
Romney, however, has experience in dealing with the health care system through Romneycare and knows how to reform it better. Romney believes in repealing obamacare in order to put into place a better system. A system which doesn't cut heath care coverage to medicare and medicaid or raise taxes. Granted Romneycare does have major flaws, but the fact remains is that Romney has more experience in implementing and fixing a health care system than Obama. Romney is for a health care system that doesn't infrige on the individual's rights and freedoms in the first amendment. If we want a fair and just health care system that doesn't cut medicare, medicaid, raise taxes, or infringe on our freedoms; then Romney is our guy. As far as his anti-gay stance is concerned, that's the reason why gay republicans, such as myself, exist.