{"id":1816,"date":"2010-04-24T07:17:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T07:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2010-04-24T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T07:17:45","slug":"problems_with_obamacare_are_be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1816","title":{"rendered":"Problems With Obamacare Are Becoming Obvious&#8211;Even Before It Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Grace-Marie Turner at <a href=\"http:\/\/healthcare.nationalreview.com\/\">National Review Online<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/22pfkq6\">report<\/a>&nbsp;from Medicare&#8217;s chief actuary, Richard Foster.&nbsp; The report lists nine problems with the healthcare reform bill:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Employer coverage will decrease&#8211;it will be cheaper for employers to pay fines than to insure employees&#8211;forcing people to enroll in Medicaid.&nbsp; This will overburden Medicaid.&nbsp; Seniors will lose Medicare Advantage coverage.<\/li>\n<li>Businesses will be faced with hugh penalties because they will not be able to afford the policies the government requires.<\/li>\n<li>The increased costs to businesses will be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices for drugs, medical devices, and premiums.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;CLASS Act&#8221; long-term-care insurance is probably unsustainable.<\/li>\n<li>National health spending will increase by $311 billion over the next ten years, increasing federal spending rather than decreasing it.<\/li>\n<li>In 2019, there will still be approximately 23 million people uninsured&#8211;5 million illegal aliens and 18 million who pay the fine instead of the cost of insurance.<\/li>\n<li>Spending reductions &#8220;may not be fully achievable&#8221;.&nbsp; Sounds like a normal government program.<\/li>\n<li>There will be fewer places that senior citizens will be able to go for treatment.&nbsp; Access to care for senior citizens will quickly become an issue.<\/li>\n<li>The increased demands on Medicaid will make it difficut to find care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I got a letter from my Congressional Representative yesterday explaining how great the healthcare reform bill was.&nbsp; I wrote him back that I would be actively campaigning for his opponent in November.&nbsp; Please join me&#8211;if your Congressman (or Congresswoman) voted for the healthcare reform bill, please donate or campaign for their opponent in November.&nbsp; We need to repeal this awful bill before it has time to do any serious damage to our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Grace-Marie Turner at National Review Online&nbsp;posted an article about the report&nbsp;from Medicare&#8217;s chief actuary, Richard Foster.&nbsp; The report lists nine problems with the healthcare reform bill: Employer coverage will decrease&#8211;it will be cheaper for employers to pay fines than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1816\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}