Originally Posted by
scambo1
"ObamaCare Explained"
Let me get this straight . . . ...
We're going to be "gifted" with a health care
plan we are forced to purchase and
fined if we don't,
Which purportedly covers at least
ten million more people,
without adding a single new doctor,
but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,
written by a committee whose chairman
says he doesn't understand it,
passed by a Congress that didn't read it but
exempted themselves from it,
and signed by a President who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who
didn't pay his taxes,
for which we'll be taxed for four years before any
benefits take effect,
by a government which has
already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,
all to be overseen by a surgeon general
who is obese,
and financed by a country that's broke!!!!!
'Is there something
WRONG with
this picture?'
Yes, there's no single-payer or public option.
This is Romneycare, or old BobDoleCare, or NixonCare (except he wanted the mandate placed on the employer). A healthcare mandate has always been a republican idea.
However, in the law, each state has the power to adopt their own plan if it's better/more efficient, etc, to cut costs. But no state, even Texas, has been able to introduce their own plan. If any state does propose and implement their own plan, it'll probably be Vermont, and that'll most likely be single payer.
Republicans shouldn't be upset with Obama, Liberals should be the ones upset. Since he's been in office he's more of a moderate-republican than a liberal-progressive. Republicans have gotten more of what they wanted than Democrats. They just won't admit it because it's tanking the economy.
Now most of the FAA is shutdown. The government ran air traffic control system is funtioning though so planes don't solder themselves in the sky and completely shutdown commerce. Though the Tea Party would love to see that get shutdown too since Hamilton didn't write the Air Traffic Control System in the Constitution.
Are ticket prices cheaper now that the FAA isn't collecting taxes to pay for maintaining the navigational equipment that you rely so heavily on and trust, or to pay for runway you land on, or lights, or is someone making sure your company is maintaining your airplane to the minimum standard that is (actually, i think most inspectors are still on the job, just without pay. You try that.) ? No, now the airlines raised fares and are just pocketing the money. (Maybe they're saving the extra cash so they can restore your pension.)
(The Social Security Trust Fund being bankrupt is misleading. SS brings in more money than it shells out (had some $2.5trillion surplus.) It's in the red cuz it's full of IOU's to pay for wars, wallstreet, tax cuts, etc.)