Make Them Own It
Here’s Drudge below-the-fold this morning.
What’s it all about? Here’s the first story from the AP, courtesy of Hot Air:
Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too. It’s a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Obama’s health care overhaul.
The charge, buried in a recent regulation, works out to tens of millions of dollars for the largest companies, employers say. Most of that is likely to be passed on to workers.
Peanuts compared to what ObamaCare is already doing to your premiums, but it’s a far cry from the $2,500 a year Obama promised to save you and your family.
This next story is especially sweet:
In a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid, 18 Democrat senators and senators-elect have asked for “a delay in the implementation” of the Obamacare medical device tax. Like most of the significant tax increases in Obamacare, the medical device tax is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2013, conveniently after the 2012 presidential election.
Each of the 18 Democrat signatories voted for or supported Obamacare in the first place. And now they want a sweetheart exemption from one of its most onerous provisions.
Screw them. The Democrats wanted power over your health care, and they took it. Now they must bear the responsibility that power entails.
Wait, what? Responsibility?
That’s the last thing they’ll ever do. The only way that word ever manifests itself is when non-party members are blamed for any ills suffered by the prols and their defenders. But actual “responsibility” is a non-starter.
We live in a world of victims and their “defenders”. Nobody bears responsibility for anything anymore.
Act accordingly.
But wait, there’s more! Not directly related to Obamacare, but another healthcare mine waiting to blow-up if we go over the fiscal cliff:
…the Medicare fees that doctors are paid for treating seniors has gotten tangled up in the same high-stakes deal-making to avert the fiscal cliff…
If Congress does nothing, doctors will be reimbursed 27% less than current rates, starting Jan. 1. That could spur thousands of doctors to stop seeing Medicare patients. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/medicare-patients-risk-without-doctors-105500355.html
I work for a major university medical center, and while, as the article noted force physicians to stop seeing Medicare patients; another ugly aspect is that, as in our case, major medical centers and hospitals will have to immediately furlough staff on unpaid leave, and downgrade availability of services to patients. If it were to continue, in our case where our patient base has a very high proportion of Medicare patients – Upland South/Appalachia, we have contingency plans to lay off staff and shut down some services all together. Oh, and lest we forget the impact on the physicians bottom line professionally and personally.
and waiting unmentioned in this disaster is, unless i missed its repeal, the onerous hill-burton act which requires hospitals to give away a certain unspecified amount of service for free. good luck with providing that when you have laid off people.
Some of us know better.
Millionaires and billionaires? Pleeeeeeeeease.
This stuff is paid for by taking from the bottom.
What happens when min. wage rises?
Teenagers’ unemployment goes UP
Cheers to our home-brewing master-in-chief for building his identity and his political clout on the backs of unemployed and underemployed teenagers and other people entering the workforce.