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July 27, 2009
5 key freedoms you lose under Obamacare
Topics: Political News and commentariesIn a must read article on health-care, Fortune magazine identifies five freedoms that you have now that the Democrats in Congress intend to take away from you. These are in the actual legislation (Hat tip - Eric Erickson):
A close reading of the two main bills, one backed by Democrats in the House and the other issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy's Health committee, contradict the President's assurances. To be sure, it isn't easy to comb through their 2,000 pages of tortured legal language. But page by page, the bills reveal a web of restrictions, fines, and mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage.The 5 key freedoms you will lose under Obama's and the Democrats' plan are:If you prize choosing your own cardiologist or urologist under your company's Preferred Provider Organization plan (PPO), if your employer rewards your non-smoking, healthy lifestyle with reduced premiums, if you love the bargain Health Savings Account (HSA) that insures you just for the essentials, or if you simply take comfort in the freedom to spend your own money for a policy that covers the newest drugs and diagnostic tests -- you may be shocked to learn that you could lose all of those good things under the rules proposed in the two bills that herald a health-care revolution.
In short, the Obama platform would mandate extremely full, expensive, and highly subsidized coverage -- including a lot of benefits people would never pay for with their own money -- but deliver it through a highly restrictive, HMO-style plan that will determine what care and tests you can and can't have. It's a revolution, all right, but in the wrong direction.
1. Freedom to choose what's in your planContinue reading.
2. Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs
3. Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage
4. Freedom to keep your existing plan
5. Freedom to choose your doctors
As Erickson suggests, call your Congressman now. Tell him or her to vote no on H.R. 3200, the Democrats' healthcare legislation.
Posted by Richard at July 27, 2009 9:09 PM
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