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The Service Employees Union International (SEUI), Obama's healthcare reform plan

A purple win is America’s loss



As individual citizens and taxpayers read the various healthcare bills that their legislators have not read, it becomes very clear that there are many losers in the Administration’s healthcare reform plan.

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Even the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will not support the misrepresentative claims made by the Obama administration that this reform will not increase the deficit, taxes or both. Experience with previous government healthcare programs shows that proponents of new government programs will misrepresent the cost to the public to get programs approved. When Medicare was proposed in 1965, the projected cost in 1990 was determined by the Johnson Administration to be 12 billion dollars. The real cost in 1990 was 107 billion dollars. The cost was underestimated by a factor of 9 to obtain passage of the legislation. Imagine what the real cost of healthcare reform would be in 10 years if the CBO estimate of 1.2 trillion dollars is equally under estimated. Clearly the American taxpayers are losers in this legislation. The Medicare experience shows that when inexpensive medical coverage is offered, utilization increases. The only way to prevent greater utilization is to impose rationing. If Obamacare is to have any hope of containing costs it will have to limit care to those that use healthcare most extensively. Since more is spent on healthcare in the first and last years of one’s life than all the years in between, seniors will have rationed care. To help pay for inclusion of the uninsured into healthcare, taxes will be levied on businesses that provide healthcare coverage to their employees and responsible individuals that purchase their own coverage. Clearly small businesses and responsible individuals do not benefit from this reform. However, there are groups that do benefit from this legislation. Those groups have contributed significantly to the Obama administration and the legislators drafting Obamacare. Obviously, hospitals will benefit from not absorbing the cost of providing medical services to the uninsured. In some urban areas, this can be a significant cost especially if there is a large illegal alien population. Pharmaceutical companies will have a new taxpayer funded market for their products. In early March they met with the Obama team to negotiate support for the bill in exchange for more generous prescription drug reimbursement. Insurance companies support this legislation because it will force 30 million young and healthy people to buy insurance. This is almost half of the current uninsured and represents a profitable untapped market for insurers. However, perhaps the largest beneficiary of this legislation is not quite so obvious. The Service Employees Union International (SEUI) contributed 60 million dollars and thousand of hours to the Obama campaign. Their purple shirted members have attended August town hall meetings to support Obamacare through intimidation and violence. The real prize in this legislation is the ability to organize 7.5 million new government employees that Obamacare will create. The National Health Service (NHS) in England employs approximately 1.4 million workers in a country with a population of 60 million. The voting power of those workers effectively thwarts any NHS reform efforts in that country. The SEUI has used threats and intimidation to pirate nurses and other service workers from other unions in California. It has used taxpayer funds fraudulently provided by ACORN programs to enrich its bosses and diverted member dues to subsidize ACORN’s supposedly non-partisan voter registration programs. In testimony before the Pennsylvania Legislature it recently admitted to knowingly organizing and collecting dues from illegal aliens. It has also been one of the most vocal advocates of Card Check legislation that would replace secret voting on union representation with public intimidation. In the healthcare debate, if those wearing purple win, the American taxpayer, small business owners and senior citizens will lose.


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David Nace was raised in rural western Pennsylvania. Graduated from Penn State University with an Undergraduate degree in Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration. He has managed and co-owned a construction company since 1989. Dave is active in the Associated Builders and Contractors organization on the local and national level, and is able to demonstrate the consequences of legislation and policies in concise and easily understood articles.


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