Issues on Health: The Bad, The Ugly, The Health Care Reform Bill

Inside the Health Care Reform Bill 1 the government doesn't want people to know:

On the Health Care Reform website, posted by the government, all it talks about are benefits. Well ofcourse it would only want to talk about benefits. If they talk about the down side of the bill then there us a chance more people might not like it. They want to get this Bill passed without any more debate and controversy than it already has. So lets talk about what else will come out of this supposed wonderful Bill.

Washington Times reports on how the Democrats are pushing for the IRS to deal with all the Health Care issues because of the millions if not billions of dollars need to jumpstart this bill. 2 The house and senate health care bills are both a staggering 2,000 pages long and full of new regulations that all for the IRS to gain more power over the new system. 2 A shocking statement found out by the Washington Times on January 12, 2010 sheds some light how the IRS is goingto deal with this new found power:

"A new report on the poor quality of service Americans receive from the IRS doesn't augur well for the agency's central role in government health care. With the April 15 tax day just three months away, the IRS already is warning tax filers that about three of every 10 taxpayers who phone the tax office 'will likely be ignored this year.' " 2

With all of the confusion and now more tax questions to the already complicated system, how will the American people understand this new system, when they barely understand the one now? And the questions asked of the IRS are never fully answered or, in some cases, answered incorrectly. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, can get an answer from the IRS about this mess. "Are they capable of doing it? How much more is it going to cost to do it? Do they know what the law requires?" the senator asked. "And we never got a concrete answer from the IRS." 2

The Wall Street Journal also did some investigating into the new Health Care Reform Bill. The Wall Street Journal reports that as the Obama adminstration said they will bend the cost curve but what they didn't elaborate on is that the cost curve won't be going down. Nope, thanks to the $222 billion dollar tax increase over the next ten years this curve will only continue to soar. 3

Richard Foster, the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, did a research study and found that the $222 billion dollars talked about, only about 6 of the 10 years were really accounted for. That sum is really a net figure. Foster figures that the 18 million newly insured people will be put into medicaid were provider coverage rates are well below average. These Medicaid and even Medicare costs, according to Foster, will only hurt doctors and hospitals instead of the promise of helping them. "He says many providers will be forced to stop accepting patients who are insured by the government, as opposed to those who have private coverage 'with relatively attractive payment rates.' " With all of this Foster estimates we will go bankrupt by 2025. 3

For some reason this makes me re-think about those benefits talked about by government ran websites and Micheal Moores movie Sicko. It seems like the American people are going to hurt from this. Even if there is a shed of light somewhere, there will still be economic trouble. American sure will be getting health care, but only the rich will be able to afford the health care needed for whole protection. Seems fair? Seems like the same system only with flashy lights to make people go ew and ah!

Sure there are benefits, but the cost of those benefits are great, can we really use this bill to help us, and improve our economy and more importantly our health?