By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--July 27, 2009
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In short, the Obama platform would mandate extremely full, expensive, and highly subsidized coverage — including a lot of benefits people would never pay for with their own money — but deliver it through a highly restrictive, HMO-style plan that will determine what care and tests you can and can’t have. It’s a revolution, all right, but in the wrong direction.Among the things that Tully reveals is that we’d lose the freedom to chose what sort of plan we’d like to pay for and what care options we’d like to have, we’d lose the ability to chose our own doctors, and nearly all of us would lose our existing healthcare plans, whether we have them through our employer or not, within a year of Obamacare’s passing. For his part, WSJ’s Fund informs us that young people would lose the freedom not to even have health insurance if they don’t want to and will be forced to pay the high prices for government coverage that they don’t want, can’t afford, and will likely not use. Fund also talks of the lie that people will be able to keep their current plans if they like them and that the costs will be “revenue neutral.”
While Democrats on Capitol Hill dispute claims that individuals will lose their existing coverage under their reform plans, on other issues many Democrats privately acknowledge some people will indeed get whacked to pay for the new world of government-dominated health care.Fund also shows that small business will lose the freedom of structuring their business they way they want to as government will force all sorts of mandates upon them in order to fund the healthcare scheme. Additionally, millions will lose their health savings accounts (HSAs), and Medicare users will find massive cuts in services. Fund also says that elderly patients will find their costs skyrocketing as they are forced out of Mdeicare Advantage and back into the regular system. So, instead of improving healthcare, Obamacare does far more to dismantle what actually does work only to replace it with scaled back freedoms, massive bureaucracy and sky high taxes. Such a deal. (Crossposted at HealthcareHorseRace.com.)
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.