You will find that it either matches or exceeds
what you pay in rent or mortgage payments each month. Those insurance
premiums cover your vehicle, your home (or renter's insurance), life
insurance, and health insurance. Another reason for the Affordable
Care Act's failure. It does not address the issues and reasons
why health care is so costly. In the case of health care insurance,
despite its high-cost premiums – they only pay out 80%, which means
that you are not just paying too much per month for premiums, but
when having a stay at a hospital (where it costs $500 just to walk
in), you are also paying 20% of the bill.
The health care issue is more than
addressing one problem because the solution is made up of addressing
several factors. Obamacare totally falls short of that solution, and,
as we are seeing creates more problems than it fixes.
Historically, once a program,
especially one as big as Obamacare, Congress will not nullify it no
matter how bad the idea was or how badly it is not working. If they
would have been honest about its conception and did more research
instead of insisting upon rushing it through legislation, of which
many congressional members did not read (or understand) the bill
before passing it. Whatever came out and passed, BH Obama, without
being realistic or reading it, signed it – because it represented
his legacy and campaign promise. The only one he kept.
If medical personnel thought and acted
upon like politicians do, they would be charged and tried for
malpractice.
Medical doctors spend an average of six
years in educational institutions to practice medicine. An RN
must undergo at least four years of education. Politicians have no
criteria other than their talent of talking voters into voting for
them, the knack of skirting constitutional law, and making deals with
special interest groups for their support. Check and see how many
'serving' in Congress, in both the Senate and House of
Representatives that have taken any courses in Political Science, far
less with degrees in that avenue of education. Senator Dianne Feinstein (and others)
still does not understand what the Second Amendment is all about.
But voters are letting them operate their government on their behalf.
How many in Congress, and for that matter, in the White House could
pass a background check required for a top-level security clearance?
They are not required to have such a check before being qualified as
a candidate. Qualifications are secondary to political party and
personal agenda – which in turn is primary over the welfare of the
United States and its people. The national debt is beyond
imagination, but those the majority votes for are authorizing funds
(and material) to other nations without payment or any program to pay
the United States back. Meanwhile, when budget cuts actually take
place, groups like veterans suffer because they are not as important
as special interest groups and foreign nations.
Alexis de Tocqueville was correct when he stated we get the form of government we deserve. Unfortunately, the minority that does not vote for reasons
of popularity or membership in a specific political club or having
the first whatever as president, but try to choose from its limit of
choices people that are constitutionalists and their qualifications
when voting. People are also tired of having to choose the best of
the worst choice of candidates. Part of that problem lies in the fact
that too many Americans do not see how important the primary
elections are, only focusing on the final candidate elections. Big
mistake.
All of these issues and problems have
developed because of the degradation of our society, where government
and those running it determine how children are raised instead of
just focusing upon the educational principle of ensuring that our
youth is prepared to deal with life decisions and perform their
chosen careers in a manner that matches and hopefully exceeds other
nations. And, that is another area that the United States has
gradually slipped into the category of low educational standards. The
big interest in importing skilled and specially skilled workers is
because the educational system has failed despite the fact that the
United States spends more on its educational institutions than any
other nation. Why? Is anyone working on that problem?
The progressive democratic socialists
sure are not. They are more concerned with using the Marxist
principle that government control the educational system and thus
produces generations of indoctrinated citizens that will be useful
and loyal to the state. Once the educational institutions and the
media is in control, then the push towards a socialist society and
government is near complete – ready to move on to the next step in
the progress of a powerful government.
The present tax code that has been
detrimental for decades still exists – thanks to progressives and
RINOs.
Government makes changes with its
regulations and its tax subsidies, and in the process creates more
problems and hinders economic stability. Those that operate our
government have developed the practice that if expenses do not meet
the configured budget (when they actually budget), the only thing to
do is either raise taxes or create new ones – or both.
How many times have you heard the
political pundits claim that the economy, specifically cost at the
pump is because of the evil oil corporations?
Let's use ethanol as an example.
Because of regulations, passed with the promise it would decrease the
cost of fuel and make it better, ethanol was forced upon the oil
companies as an additive. In so doing, the cost of gasoline did not
decrease and ethanol destroys engines. In the meantime, corn, used
for feed and food, has risen in cost because farmers prefer to get
the higher price that ethanol manufacturers are paying than food
sources. So not only does fuel prices rise, but food prices as well
because corn and its byproducts are used extensively in the food
market; and no difference in fuel mileage - just ruined carburetor systems like photo below.
Ethanol damaged |
Obamacare is causing a myriad of
problems and those problems will get costlier as time goes on. Like
income tax, a lot of revenue will be used up in dealing with the
paperwork. Like income tax, it does not help the people it hinders
and hurts them. The income tax is hard to get rid of because too many
have the ability to cheat. If income tax was deleted and replaced
with a consumption tax, the benefits would be for both government and
the people – as long as it is a fixed rate that can only be changed
by a two-thirds majority vote in Congress.
All of these issues tie into together
and are the result of voters allowing progressives to take over and
continue its march towards destroying the US Constitution, replacing
it with something that the Founders tried to avoid.
Please read Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Economic Productivity by
Casey Mulligan, published by Hillsdale College.
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