On Mar 23, 11:43 am, JSM <ekrub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "I think that health care, over time, is going to become more popular,"
> then-White House senior advisor David Axelrod
> promised<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599798:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>David
> Gregory about Obamacare last September. That same month, the
> Health Information
> Campaign<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599799:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>,
> founded by high-profile leftist activists including former Senate Majority
> Leader Tom Daschle and former White House Communications Director Anita
> Dunn, spent $2 million on a national television ad campaign touting
> Obamcare's first insurance mandates. Now, six months after Axelrod's
> promise, and a full year after the bill was signed into law, the results are
> in: Obamacare is more unpopular than ever.
>
> Look at any poll<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599800:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>and
> you'll see that Obamacare has only gotten less legitimate. Last
> year at this time<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599800:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>Newsweek
> showed 40 percent of Americans supporting Obamacare and 49 percent
> opposing it. Today<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599801:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>,
> only 37 percent support it while 56 percent oppose. According to
> Quinnipiac<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599802:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>,
> after Obamacare passed last year, 44 percent of Americans approved of
> President Obama's handling of health care while 50 percent opposed. Today,
> only 44 percent approve while opposition has grown to 56 percent. And
> according to the Kaiser Family
> Foundation<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599803:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>,
> after Obamacare passed, 62 percent of Americans thought the law would either
> have no effect on them or make them worse off. Today that number is up to 69
> percent.
>
> The reason why President Obama and his liberal allies have failed to turn
> public opinion around is simple: The major claims made by the President in
> the effort to pass Obamacare have all been exposed as frauds, and the early
> implementation by his Administration has been a complete disaster.
>
> Center for Policy Innovation Senior Fellow and *Why Obamacare is Wrong for
> America<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599804:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>
> * co-author Bob Moffit
> details<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599805:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>just
> some of the Obamacare claims that have been exposed as fictions:
>
> - "Obamacare will bend the cost curve downward." Not according to the
> Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), whose April 22, 2010,
> report<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599806:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>shows
> Obamacare adding more than $310 billion more in health care spending;
> - "People who like their health plan can keep it." Not according to CMS,
> which estimates<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599806:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>that
> 14 million Americans will lose their current coverage if Obamacare is
> not repealed;
> - "The middle class will not see tax increases." Yes, they will. In fact,
> most of Obamacare's tax
> increases<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599807:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>hit
> the middle class.
>
> On the implementation front, Heritage analyst Brian Blase
> surveys<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599808:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>the
> early returns:
>
> - *Benefit Mandates Drove Up Costs.* The generous benefit packages
> mandated by Obamacare are not free. Insurers across the country raising
> rates at record paces and unequivocally is part of the reason why. For
> example, Celtic Insurance Company in Wisconsin and North Carolina has
> attributed half of its 18 percent rate increase to Obamacare mandates.
> - *Preexisting Condition Mandates Destroyed the Child-Only Market.* Just
> one year after Obamacare forced all insurers to sell coverage to all
> applicants—no matter what—insurers in 34 states have exited the market
> entirely, and 20 states now have no insurers that offer child-only plans.
> - *Shallow High-Risk Pools.* The Obama Administration predicted that
> 375,000 previously uninsured Americans would benefit from Obamacare's
> high-risk insurance pools. In reality, only 12,500 people (just 3 percent of
> the initial estimate) obtained coverage through this program.
>
> And the worst of Obamacare hasn't even been implemented yet. Starbucks CEO
> Howard Schultz told the *Seattle
> Times<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599809:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>
> * yesterday: "I think as the bill is currently written and if it was going
> to land in 2014 under the current guidelines, the pressure on small
> businesses, because of the mandate, is too great." Putting some hard numbers
> on that prediction, International House of Pancakes franchise owner Scott
> Womack told<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599810:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>Heritage's
> Tina Korbe: "Our average revenue per employee is $58,000. Our
> typical profit per employee is $3,000 and this legislation is going to cost
> anywhere from $7,000 to $10,000 per employee." America's businesses simply
> cannot afford Obamacare. It is, and is going to continue to be, a huge job
> killer.
>
> And our nation's taxpayer's can't afford Obamacare either. Last year, our
> nation's oldest entitlement program, Social Security, paid out $37 billion
> more in benefits than it collected in taxes. This year, it will pay out $45
> billion more than it collected. Over the next 10 years, Social Security will
> run a $600 billion operating
> deficit<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599811:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>.
> Instead of making our existing entitlement programs solvent, President Obama
> created a brand new trillion-dollar entitlement in Obamacare. This trillion
> dollars in new spending is paid for by half-a-trillion in higher taxes and
> another half-a-trillion in stolen funds from the existing Medicare
> program<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599812:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>.
> And the CBO just upped Obamacare's final price tag by 8.6 percent to $1.44
> trillion<http://links.heritage.org/ct/5599813:8339403274:m:1:147140772:B0378A0...>.
> This is simply unsustainable.
>
> Two hundred and thirty-six years ago, while making the case for Virginia to
> enter the Revolutionary War, Patrick Henry said: "Give me liberty or give me
> death!" After just one year, it is already clear that President Obama's
> failed health care policies are a betrayal of the founding sentiment.
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