Democrats: Plans Will Reduce Health Cost. Obama’s HHS: Um, No
I have a feeling that a few folks are going to be called to the White House for a little sit down dressing down shortly
Democrats trying to push President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul plan through the Senate got a sober warning Friday that costs will keep going up and proposed Medicare savings may harm the program.
A new report from government economic analysts at the Health and Human Services Department found that the nation’s $2.5 trillion annual health care tab won’t shrink under the Democratic blueprint that senators are debating. Instead, it would grow somewhat more rapidly than if Congress does nothing.
More troubling was the report’s assessment that the Democrats’ plan to squeeze Medicare for $493 billion over 10 years in savings relies on specific policy changes that “may be unrealistic” and could lead to cuts in services. The Medicare savings are expected to cover about half the nearly $1 trillion, 10-year cost of expanding coverage to the uninsured.
In still more bad news, the report starkly warned that a new long-term care insurance plan included in the legislation could “face a significant risk of failure” because it would attract people in poor health, leading to higher and higher premiums, and eventually triggering an “insurance death spiral.”
Hmm. Rampant increase in costs, cuts in Medicare services, higher premiums, and kill insurance. Good plan!
The one bright note: The bill would provide coverage to 93 percent of Americans, reducing the number of uninsured people by about 33 million, the report said.
Great! We’ll all have crappy, horrible, expensive insurance, but, we’ll have it! Essentially, you will have the health care equivalent of a 1981 DeLorean DMC-12. Expensive (in 2007 dollars, a new one would cost $62K), underpowered, and damned near impossible to get serviced.
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Posted by William Teach on December 12, 2009 10:22 am
» Filed Under Anti-Capitalism, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Fraud/misrepresentation, Government malfeasance/misfeasance, Healthcare, House, Nanny State, News, Senate, Socialism, Stupidity, Taxes, Totalitarianism, Unconstitutional
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It is interesting that there is never a story on the news of a person who was in need of being treated at a hospital but was simply turned away. Never heard such a story. Never heard such a story.
James: The only time I have ever heard of that happening was in historical accounts of the segregated Old South, when a sick or injured black person was taken to a “whites-only” hospital. They were typically denied treatment there, and in many cases, the person died in transit to a “colored” hospital or even outside the emergency room doors of the “whites-only” hospital.