Op-ed:
Scandals abound but let's NOT forget about the nightmare that is ObamaCare
By: Diane Sori
As Howard Dean rants on national television that the GOP needs to
get out of America...after all everything to him and his ilk is the Republicans
fault...the ObamaCare 'supposed' glitches continue on as
Nevada follows Oregon (who had NOT one person sign-up though the
exchanges), Massachusetts, and Maryland, to become the fourth state to
admit its private enrollment system done though the ObamaCare exchanges
just cannot be fixed. Now leaving its state exchange behind, Nevada
will join federal HealthCare.gov...for at least one year anyway...even
though Republican Governor Brian Sandoval opposes ObamaCare.
Governor Sandoval, who rightly thought it important for Nevada to
run its own exchange, was overruled by the state's exchange board that
obviously thought otherwise, and decided to ditch the exchange as in
their opinion it could NOT be repaired in time for the 2015 enrollment
period that is scheduled to begin this November.
So as Nevada joins the ranks of the disenfranchised, here's a bit
more happiness folks...a recent Kaiser Health Tracking Poll has shown
that for every person ObamaCare has helped, at least two have been hurt
by it...translating into a mere 18% benefiting from ObamaCare, while
30+% say they have been "negatively affected" by ObamaCare (and those
numbers do NOT include those who have been cancelled under Obama's LIE, "if
you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan." And among those who have been negatively affected by
Obamacare, 54% said their health care costs increased, 9% said
it decreased their options and/or choices, and 8% said they opposed the
entirety of the individual mandate itself.
NOT good at all for Obama's signature health care law...his
'supposed' legacy...is a failure NO matter what he and his minions say
with even liberal media polls conducted by the likes of MSNBC, The
Washington Post, and USA Today all have found that more Americans say
ObamaCare has had a negative impact on their lives...on their
pocketbooks...than say it has had a positive impact.
In other words ObamaCare still stinks.
And now it's been announced that ObamaCare deductibles maxed out at a whopping $6,350 per person this year, will next year go even higher to cap out at $6,600 per person per year...NOT per family but per person. And for a family of four that translates into an unbelievable $26,400 per year...an amount forced on them by a law that they NEVER wanted for coverage they NEVER needed and CANNOT afford.
And businesses will be hit as well as ObamaCare's soon to be
enforced employer penalties will rise from $3,000 per subsidized
full-time employee to $3,120 per employee. And the fines and penalties
that were put on hold for this year, continue to grow so that in 2015,
employers with at least 100 full-time-workers will owe $2,080 for each
of those workers after an exemption for the first 30.
Talk about a job killer...and it gets even worse for the fact is that by 2016 the ObamaCare employer mandate will apply to firms with only 50 full-time-workers, with the fines going even higher.
And it gets worse. While there are ongoing serious issues currently under investigation concerning the VA and the long waits our veterans face when they need to see a doctor or get treatment, ObamaCare itself throws another wrench into the mix by increasing 'fragmentation' of care among vets who now rely solely on the VA for treatment. This means that those vets who use both VA and non-VA sources for treatment are more likely to be re-hospitalized and die within a year compared with VA-only users...and this comes from Dr. Kenneth Kizer, a former under secretary of Health for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Fact...ObamaCare also affects pre-911 disabled vets that require
24/7 care who are NOT eligible for Medicaid. Their family caregivers are
NOT covered under the Caregiver act of 2010 as only post 911 caregivers
are covered, so the cost of these caregivers health care will now have
to come out of their own pockets or the caregiver will be fined or will
have to sign a waiver and NOT be covered.
And if a veteran is only eligible for care at military hospitals and clinics and is NOT covered under certain 'TRICARE' plans this means they do NOT have minimum essential coverage as mandated under the rules of ObamaCare, and they too will be fined or required to get additional coverage. And this involves those getting care for 'line of duty only' related conditions and those vets or the family members insured under the 'TRICARE for Young Adults' plan who may now need their coverage altered to be in line with ObamaCare required coverage, especially in the area of mental health care.
And our vets under 'TRICARE' will get hit like the rest of us in their pocketbooks with 'TRICARE Prime' retirees who are under age 65 seeing an increase in the enrollment fee that they pay yearly that will be based on the amount they receive in their retirement pay from the military. And 'TRICARE for Life', the program for retirees over 65 would see increases in enrollment fees as well as changes to the catastrophic cap...the maximum out-of-pocket amount beneficiaries will pay each fiscal year.
So our veterans get the shaft by this administration yet again.
And so to date ObamaCare continues to trudge along screwing 'We the
People'...screwing our veterans and their families...in the process. All
our fears about this most grievous of laws have come to pass...death
panels, rationed medicine, NOT being able to keep the coverage or
doctors one likes or can afford, coverage mandated for things one does
NOT want or need...the list is endless making ObamaCare a fraud plain
and simple...a fraud because simply allowing people to purchase
insurance across state lines...thus broadened the base...would have
allowed premium rates to drop without doing anything else to the
insurance set-ups.
NOT good at all for Obama's signature health care law...his
'supposed' legacy...is a failure NO matter what he and his minions say
with even liberal media polls conducted by the likes of MSNBC, The
Washington Post, and USA Today all have found that more Americans say
ObamaCare has had a negative impact on their lives...on their
pocketbooks...than say it has had a positive impact.
In other words ObamaCare still stinks.
And now it's been announced that ObamaCare deductibles maxed out at a whopping $6,350 per person this year, will next year go even higher to cap out at $6,600 per person per year...NOT per family but per person. And for a family of four that translates into an unbelievable $26,400 per year...an amount forced on them by a law that they NEVER wanted for coverage they NEVER needed and CANNOT afford.
And businesses will be hit as well as ObamaCare's soon to be
enforced employer penalties will rise from $3,000 per subsidized
full-time employee to $3,120 per employee. And the fines and penalties
that were put on hold for this year, continue to grow so that in 2015,
employers with at least 100 full-time-workers will owe $2,080 for each
of those workers after an exemption for the first 30.
Talk about a job killer...and it gets even worse for the fact is that by 2016 the ObamaCare employer mandate will apply to firms with only 50 full-time-workers, with the fines going even higher.
And it gets worse. While there are ongoing serious issues currently under investigation concerning the VA and the long waits our veterans face when they need to see a doctor or get treatment, ObamaCare itself throws another wrench into the mix by increasing 'fragmentation' of care among vets who now rely solely on the VA for treatment. This means that those vets who use both VA and non-VA sources for treatment are more likely to be re-hospitalized and die within a year compared with VA-only users...and this comes from Dr. Kenneth Kizer, a former under secretary of Health for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Fact...ObamaCare also affects pre-911 disabled vets that require
24/7 care who are NOT eligible for Medicaid. Their family caregivers are
NOT covered under the Caregiver act of 2010 as only post 911 caregivers
are covered, so the cost of these caregivers health care will now have
to come out of their own pockets or the caregiver will be fined or will
have to sign a waiver and NOT be covered.
And if a veteran is only eligible for care at military hospitals and clinics and is NOT covered under certain 'TRICARE' plans this means they do NOT have minimum essential coverage as mandated under the rules of ObamaCare, and they too will be fined or required to get additional coverage. And this involves those getting care for 'line of duty only' related conditions and those vets or the family members insured under the 'TRICARE for Young Adults' plan who may now need their coverage altered to be in line with ObamaCare required coverage, especially in the area of mental health care.
And our vets under 'TRICARE' will get hit like the rest of us in their pocketbooks with 'TRICARE Prime' retirees who are under age 65 seeing an increase in the enrollment fee that they pay yearly that will be based on the amount they receive in their retirement pay from the military. And 'TRICARE for Life', the program for retirees over 65 would see increases in enrollment fees as well as changes to the catastrophic cap...the maximum out-of-pocket amount beneficiaries will pay each fiscal year.
So our veterans get the shaft by this administration yet again.
And so to date ObamaCare continues to trudge along screwing 'We the
People'...screwing our veterans and their families...in the process. All
our fears about this most grievous of laws have come to pass...death
panels, rationed medicine, NOT being able to keep the coverage or
doctors one likes or can afford, coverage mandated for things one does
NOT want or need...the list is endless making ObamaCare a fraud plain
and simple...a fraud because simply allowing people to purchase
insurance across state lines...thus broadened the base...would have
allowed premium rates to drop without doing anything else to the
insurance set-ups.
So when we retake the Senate in November (like
my positive thinking) repealing ObamaCare must become a number one
priority for there was NOTHING wrong with America's top-notch health
care system to begin with. This most miserable of presidents turned
health care into a political issue for NO other reason than to win (steal) an election, assure a
new generation of Democratic voters, and to increase the existing
Democratic base of those tied to the government teat for their mere
existence.
And so ObamaCare continues to be the stuff of nightmares that we still seem unable to wake-up from...sad isn't ithttp://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2014/05/op-ed-scandals-abound-but-lets-not.html
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