HEALTHCARE
- Jan 1, 2010 - President Obama, in attempts to push his controversial healthcare reform bill, has continuously claimed the number of uninsured Americans who can not afford health coverage to be at 46 million people.
F: Obama must do a better job with providing Americans the true and accurate number of uninsured. Is President Obama being misleading by using this statistic just to support his healthcare reform bill? The facts show 46 million is highly inaccurate. The true extent of the uninsured is much less than what the President claims. After counting illegal immigrants (10 million), those who can afford it but choose not to- salaries over $50,000/year (17 million), the temporarily uninsured (9 million), and those who choose professions that pay off the books. (These people sacrifice health coverage in exchange for not paying income taxes), the number is astoundingly lower. The true count of uninsured Americans is an estimated 8 million...a far cry from 46 million.
-Feb 4, 2009 - President Obama signed a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children. This is Obama's first step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge to provide insurance for all Americans under universal health care. The children's health bill calls for spending an additional $32.8 billion on SCHIPI, (created more than a decade ago to help children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private coverage) which now enrolls an estimated 7 million children. This plan will be paid for with higher cigarette taxes.
C : The good news is that 4 million uninsured children will now have health coverage. Ensuring that all children have health insurance is a must. And supporting this program while also attempting to deter people from smoking dangerous cigarettes (by taxing cigarettes) is a good intention. However, there are some downsides to this plan. First, it should be known that none of these current uninsured American children would ever be denied medical assistance due to lack of insurance coverage. In America, that is illegal. Second, this is another spending bill that America can not afford. It is going to cost American tax payers another $32.8 billion dollars. Third, this move takes the program beyond it's original intent by now encouraging some parents to utilize this free health care entitlement program instead of putting their children under private health insurance. Fourth, this move puts America's health care system that much closer to universal healthcare which will be run by the government instead of the people. Universal healthcare currently exists in socialists countries and results in higher taxes, decrease in patient options, mandate doctors' flexibility leading to poor patient care, many patients would curb their doctor visits and pharmaceutical drugs and instead use the free government services leading to overall increase in doctor visits and pharmaceutical drugs for everyone else .
F: Obama must do a better job with providing Americans the true and accurate number of uninsured. Is President Obama being misleading by using this statistic just to support his healthcare reform bill? The facts show 46 million is highly inaccurate. The true extent of the uninsured is much less than what the President claims. After counting illegal immigrants (10 million), those who can afford it but choose not to- salaries over $50,000/year (17 million), the temporarily uninsured (9 million), and those who choose professions that pay off the books. (These people sacrifice health coverage in exchange for not paying income taxes), the number is astoundingly lower. The true count of uninsured Americans is an estimated 8 million...a far cry from 46 million.
-Feb 4, 2009 - President Obama signed a bill extending health coverage to 4 million uninsured children. This is Obama's first step toward fulfilling a campaign pledge to provide insurance for all Americans under universal health care. The children's health bill calls for spending an additional $32.8 billion on SCHIPI, (created more than a decade ago to help children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private coverage) which now enrolls an estimated 7 million children. This plan will be paid for with higher cigarette taxes.
C : The good news is that 4 million uninsured children will now have health coverage. Ensuring that all children have health insurance is a must. And supporting this program while also attempting to deter people from smoking dangerous cigarettes (by taxing cigarettes) is a good intention. However, there are some downsides to this plan. First, it should be known that none of these current uninsured American children would ever be denied medical assistance due to lack of insurance coverage. In America, that is illegal. Second, this is another spending bill that America can not afford. It is going to cost American tax payers another $32.8 billion dollars. Third, this move takes the program beyond it's original intent by now encouraging some parents to utilize this free health care entitlement program instead of putting their children under private health insurance. Fourth, this move puts America's health care system that much closer to universal healthcare which will be run by the government instead of the people. Universal healthcare currently exists in socialists countries and results in higher taxes, decrease in patient options, mandate doctors' flexibility leading to poor patient care, many patients would curb their doctor visits and pharmaceutical drugs and instead use the free government services leading to overall increase in doctor visits and pharmaceutical drugs for everyone else .
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