Apr 02 2010
What Health Reform Does This Year
While many of the benefits of the recently-passed health care reform bill will take some time to kick in, we’ll see many of the benefits right away:
- Tax credits for small businesses to cover health care costs for employees
- Policies that forbid insurance companies from dropping people when they get sick or putting limits on care
- Preventive care provided by insurance companies at no cost
- Allowances for adult children to remain on their parents’ insurance until age 26
- Affordability adjustments for Medicare prescription drug coverage that close the “donut hole”
- Funding authorizations for community-based health centers
Be sure to check out this three-minute video highlighting the immediate benefits of health care reform.
16,500 more IRS agents needed to enforce Obamacare
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/16500-more-IRS-agents-needed-to-enforce-Obamacare-88458137.html#ixzz0kDM5F732
“Despite what the democrats and the media are saying the law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.”
“This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the Obama administration of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital.”
“If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private insurance that is not deemed “acceptable” to the “Health Choices Administrator” appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you.”
Michael Connelly
Free health care for illegal immigrants? Free abortion services? Forced participation in abortions? These are fictitious canards invented by opponents of health care reform to scare the living daylights out of the American public.
What most Americans are interested in, I think, is the fact that young adults are going to be covered by their parents’ plans until they turn 26; that seniors will get help in paying for prescription drugs; that small businesses (under 50 employees) will get tax credits for offering health benefits to their employees; that people who can’t get coverage from insurance companies now will be able to enter a high-risk pool; and that your insurance company can’t deny you coverage after you get sick (known as recission).
We don’t need to scare Americans with false information in order to bring about health care reform. The status quo is scary enough.
Michael,
You may also want to check out this article, ‘The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate:” http://www.newsweek.com/id/214254
Also check this out for a breakdown of the benefits of health care reform: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1914020220100319.
Sorry for my English, but your post touched me so that I could not remain silent. Thank you for such posts, write more often.