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December 21, 2009

10 Reasons to Kill the Senate Health-Care Bill (Updated - 15 more)

I find few occasions to link to a left-wing blog, however this is one of them. FireDogLake has an excellent, CliffsNotes-style analysis of why the Senate health-care bill needs to be defeated. It points out that the Senate bill isn't a "starter home," it's "a sink hole," and it needs to die so something else can take its place. Regardless of their political persuasion, once people "understand the con job that's about to be foist upon them," they will all agree that the bill needs to be killed. FDL goes on to note that the reason behind Harry Reid and President Obama trying to jam the bill through as fast as they can is to do so before people get wise to the extent of the con job and how terrible the bill really is.

From the analysis at FDL, here are the top 10 reasons the bill must be defeated:

1. Forces you to pay up to 8% of your income to private insurance corporations - whether you want to or not.
2. If you refuse to buy the insurance, you'll have to pay penalties of up to 2% of your annual income to the IRS.
3. Many will be forced to buy poor-quality insurance they can't afford to use, with $11,900 in annual out-of-pocket expenses over and above their annual premiums.
4. Massive restriction on a woman's right to choose, designed to trigger a challenge to Roe v. Wade in the Supreme Court.
5. Paid for by taxes on the middle class insurance plan you have right now through your employer, causing them to cut back benefits and increase co-pays.
6. Many of the taxes to pay for the bill start now, but most Americans won't see any benefits - like an end to discrimination against those with preexisting conditions - until 2014 when the program begins.
7. Allows insurance companies to charge people who are older 300% more than others.
8. Grants monopolies to drug companies that will keep generic versions of expensive biotech drugs from ever coming to market.
9. No re-importation of prescription drugs, which would save consumers $100 billion over 10 years.
10. The cost of medical care will continue to rise, and insurance premiums for a family of four will rise an average of $1,000 a year - meaning in 10 years, your family's insurance premium will be $10,000 more annually than it is right now.

Except for number 4, which conservatives and opponents of government-funded abortion find acceptable, the items on the list provide more than sufficient reason to kill the bill. Surely, there are many more to follow as more is learned about Reids "vapor bill."

The background information on each of the above points is available here.

Be sure to email the above lists to your friends and family, tweet it and spread the word, write, email, and call your Representative and Senator and tell them to kill the bill, then tell your friends to do the same.

Update: TheFinancialSkinny has read Senator Harry Reid's "Manager's Amendment" to the Senate healthcare bill and has prepared his on must-read list of troubling items. In its summary, TFS points out that the federal government will become deeply involved in your medical care, will collect data on the most intimate aspects of your life, will pay your doctor based upon his adherence to their rules rather than the choices that you and your doctor make, and for the purposes of controlling costs and buying votes, will deny coverage to seniors and to very young and infirm people.

H/t - Memeorandum

Posted by Abdul at December 21, 2009 9:24 PM

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