Health Care Bill Passes Senate..Freedom Dies, We are Screwed!!!

Senate passes $871 billion health care reform bill

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Senate passed a potentially historic $871 billion health care reform bill Thursday morning, handing President Barack Obama a Christmas victory on his top domestic priority.

The bill passed after months of heated partisan debate in a 60 to 39 party line vote. Every member of the Democratic caucus backed the measure; every Republican opposed it.

CtPatriot… They don’t care what I think… They dont care what YOU think … Our Government wants to Control US… every aspect of our existence. Do you think your life is going to be the same? the way it was? Ha… Sucker… All of our lives and our Childrens lives will be reduced to that of a 3rd world nation. How long before WE are waiting in line for State approved Toilet paper???

ObamaCare: No exit

Escape only open to the super rich

By SCOTT GOTTLIEB
December 21, 2009

Perhaps the most common question I’m asked about ObamaCare is: “Will I be able to buy my way out of it?” The answer is: “Not unless you’re very rich.”

The plan before the Senate creates a set of 50 state-based insurance “exchanges” that are established as markets for health plans. Consumers must buy policies from their employers or through the exchanges — but, either way, their choice of coverage is limited to one of four basic insurance plans that the government sanctions.

Private insurers will still compete to offer policies but must model their coverage on one of these four templates. In short, the Senate bill explicitly standardizes health benefits and then establishes elaborate mechanisms (including subsidies and penalties) to pay for them.

Here’s the rub: While these four plans vary from low- to high-cost options, the benefits offered under them are pretty much the same. The difference between the cheaper and pricier plans is mostly the amount of cost sharing (e.g., you pay less for insurance if your co-pays are higher).

In effect, the plan creates a single national health-insurance policy. Consumers’ only real option is to trade higher co-pays for lower premiums. But we’ll all get the same package of benefits established by a series of new agencies and an “insurance czar” seated in Washington.

Once the exchanges are in place, the individual market — the ability to go directly to an insurer and buy a health-care policy — will disappear. You’ll have only two places to buy insurance, in the exchanges or through your workplace.

As for health plans offered by employers, “no health-insurance policies could be issued (other than grandfathered plans) that don’t meet the actuarial standards set for these plans” sold in the exchanges. The government will “define the essential health benefits” that all plans must eventually offer, not only those sold in the exchanges but also plans offered by employers. But like other elements of today’s private coverage, the grandfathered plans also disappear in short time. While the bill allows some employer plans to continue as they are today, that’s only so long as the policy doesn’t change — and natural market forces will ensure that most such policies must change within a few years after the bill becomes law.

All of which brings us to the question of whether you’ll be able to spend extra money to add benefits that exceed the government’s basic package or opt out of that plan entirely. The bill doesn’t address this question directly — yet I can say with great confidence that it will be costly and in some cases impossible.

The bill leaves these issues in the hands of the bureaucracies that will write the law’s enabling regulations. And it’s clear both what the spirit of the Obama plan and the habits of these bureaucracies will produce.

The overriding goal of this reform is to turn health insurance into a more “egalitarian” benefit that’s the same for everyone, regardless of income, personal preference or need. So rules written under President Obama to implement the Obama plan are a sure bet to intentionally curtail anyone’s ability to wrap around this national coverage with a supplemental policy or to contract privately with doctors to pay your way out of its limitations.

This is exactly what the bureaucracy’s done with Medicare. Doctors accepting Medicare can’t contract privately with Medicare patients to bill for services that Medicare doesn’t cover. Nor can patients buy added coverage to help plug Medicare’s gaps. (The “Medigap” that many seniors now buy are tightly regulated by the government to limit how much they expand on Medicare’s basic benefits; they mostly just help defray co-pays.)

In short, beneficiaries are trapped inside the Medicare insurance scheme, just as they’ll soon be trapped inside the ObamaCare exchanges. Doctors can’t offer benefits not covered by the government plans, and patients can’t buy extra insurance to make up for many gaps.

These restrictions were designed into Medicare for a reason: Progressives don’t want it to be easy for rich seniors to buy their out; they fear that if the well-off can leave the federal plan, it will become a lower-end benefit. That is, it will wind up like Medicaid, whose enormous problems are largely ignored by politicians because poor Americans don’t have the political power to force improvements.

The very rich, of course, will be able to buy their way out of ObamaCare. Many of the best doctors will go cash only, opting entirely out of the Obama program, to cater to a wealthy clientele. But only the truly affluent will have the cash to escape.

The vast rest of us will be locked inside the new system — stuck with the same collection of government-decreed medical benefits.

CtPatriot… Check this out see whats in store for us “normal” folks…

Obamacare To Cost Middle Class Families $15,000 A Year

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Families struggling in the midst of a deep recession who earn a combined total greater than $88,200 and don’t have their health care covered by their employer will be hit with a mandatory annual fee of about $15,000 according to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the final Senate Obamacare bill.

As we highlighted yesterday, the health care bill would introduce a raft of new taxes that would inevitably lead to higher costs that would be passed on to the public. A Boston Globe analysis revealed that there were at least 19 new taxes contained in the legislation which is set to be passed on Christmas Eve.

On top of this, a CBO analysis identifies five facts about the bill that will financially devastate families with an annual income greater than 400 percent of the federal poverty level.

Under Obamacare, Americans will be forced to buy government-approved health insurance and anyone earning a middle class wage will have to pay for it out of their own pocket. Federal subsidies will only be provided for people who are not offered coverage by their employer and earn below the 400 percent poverty level.

CtPatriot… Ok so say they Pass this hunk of crap TAX increase into Law… Then What???
The Democrats know they will Lose bigtime In the 2010 mid-term elections… If there are mid-term elections. It’s obvious they know America doesnt want this and we will show it at the polls… So what could the End Game be??? They are too Power Hungry to let go of power. Will there be an ” Event” say Collapsing the Dollar? To prevent New Elections? From what Iv’e seen they will stop at Nothing to get Control of us Sheeple… Why does it make so much sense???

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