Health Care - ObamaCare - A National Tragedy

This article is on the mark in that we now know what's in the ACA program, but yet we are not taking it seriously as a source of destruction for our health care system and national solvency.

Believe, nothing good can come from the (ACA) Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Any government program that requires 2700 pages to explain how it works should be warning enough for even the most unaware individual.

To stop this nightmare, all we have to do is vote out the instigaters this November. If we fail to do this, don't blame ObamaCare if you are denied care and find you have to pay much more for no care, look in the mirror.

Twelve Things Still Wrong with Health Reform

Source: Merrill Matthews, "The Health Care Dirty Dozen: Twelve Things (Still) Wrong with ObamaCare," Institute for Policy Innovation, August 14, 2012.

September 4, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court may have upheld most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ACA), but that won't fix its many flaws. Here are 12 problems that still riddle the 2,700-page law known as ObamaCare, says Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation.

•Imposes a bevy of new taxes.
•Expands a nation of takers.
•Creates a maze of cross subsidies.
•Hands control to unelected bureaucrats.
•Empowers the IRS.
•Imposes perverse economic incentives.
•Explodes health care spending.
•Enhances rationing under the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
•Allows fewer health insurance options.
•Creates more inefficiency.
•Includes pork and calls it prevention.
•Cooks the Medicare books.

What is the Affordable Care Act's greatest failure, according to Matthews? It imposes a mid-20th century health insurance model on a 21st century global economy.

•The Internet brings consumers countless products and services from countless vendors; ObamaCare provides four choices from a handful of insurers.
•Technology creates fast-paced health care changes while ObamaCare's 2,700 pages ties up almost everything in the snail-paced legislative and bureaucratic processes.
•Innovators and entrepreneurs are asking what consumers want; ObamaCare tells both patients and providers what they can and can't have. (emphasis Mine)
•The Affordable Care Act looks backward -- to the days of big-government and grand social schemes. It is the wrong policy for the dynamic and fast-paced 21st century. It is an albatross fit for 1960, not 2012.