Health Care Deform

The train wreck of Massachusetts health care provides a daunting vision of how Obamacare will play out across the nation over the next few years:

• Millions of people will get nearly free medical coverage. The Feds will mandate employer benefits.
• Insurers will be forced to raise rates, the government will impose price controls and the current, mostly private system will steadily deteriorate. As many as 160 million employees who now enjoy private insurance will get Medicare-like coverage.
• An entire industry of insurance professionals (brokers, insurers) will be replaced by government bureaucrats.
• Instead of becoming public employees, doctors will retire early, kick back or look elsewhere for income.
• More demand and less supply will lead to long delays and rationing for medical treatment. ER rooms will get more crowded.
• Boutique medical services will sprout up for those who can afford the expense. More Americans will travel to Asia for medical procedures. The U.S. will no longer be the health safety net for Canada and the rest of the world.
• States will cut other essential services, or go bankrupt, under the mounting Medicaid burdens. Federal debt and unfunded promises will soar even higher.
• Research and development for drugs and prescriptions will decline dramatically.

The American people have been hoodwinked into thinking that Obamacare would cover the uninsured without increasing costs or disrupting the services we enjoy today. Those who voted for the legislation could not have understood the details because they are still being written. Some Congressmen made side deals, others were okay with letting future generations deal with the consequences.
Obamacare is another back-door redistribution of wealth, another setback to the American standard of living. The system needed repairs, not a lobotomy. Democrats have thrown the baby out with the bath water.
We must elect a new Congress in November and reverse this nonsense.