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Rasmussen Reports
" The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows - for the second week in a row - that 60% favor repeal of the national health care law. This includes 46% who Strongly Favor repeal. Thirty-six percent (36%) oppose repeal of the law, with 27% who are Strongly Opposed.
Support for repeal has ranged from 50% to 63% in weekly tracking since March of last year.
Seventy-six percent (76%) of voters with health insurance now rate their coverage as good or excellent. Only four percent (4%) describe it as poor.
But among voters with health care insurance, 45% believe the new law will force them to change coverage, with 26% who say it is Very Likely. Forty-six percent (46%) think it is unlikely that they will have to change their coverage, including 19% say that’s Not At All Likely to happen."
From CNN the following headline rules the page:
"Health care repeal's cost: $230 billion to deficit
By Charles Riley, staff reporterJanuary 6, 2011: 4:14 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's one of the promises on which House Republicans campaigned: If elected, we will repeal health care reform.
One problem: Rolling back the law would probably increase federal budget deficits by a total of about $230 billion by 2021, according to a preliminary estimate released Thursday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The long-run outlook isn't any better. The CBO warns that long-term projections are highly uncertain, but said a repeal would increase federal deficits in the decade after 2019 by around 0.5% of GDP.
And that's a major problem for Republicans -- who also say they want to reduce the deficit and roll back federal spending to 2008 levels.
However, it's not a complete shock that the CBO's estimate predicts a debt increase if Republicans succeed in repealing the law. After all, the original legislation was predicted to lower the deficit, a key selling point for Democrats."
"The official $1.1 trillion price tag for the House Democrats' health care bill excludes dozens of unfunded programs that could drive up costs when future congresses look to fund them.
Republicans said the health care bill includes two dozen programs whose funding is listed as "such sums as may be necessary." That amounts to legislative jargon, they said, for "We'll bill you later."
The list of projects ranges from the "No child left unimmunized against influenza" project to 10 programs in the Indian health care system. There are also programs to encourage people to go into nursing and to spur states to restrain medical-malpractice lawsuits.
The tactic is far from new and has been used for years by Republicans and Democrats alike."
Washington CANNOT be trusted with Numbers EVER!
THIS IS NOTHING NEW SO WHY IN THE WORLD DO WE BELIEVE WHATEVER THE PRESS REARRANGES INTO WHAT IT WANTS THE FACTS TO SAY?
When a government report found that President Barack Obama's health overhaul would modestly raise the nation's total health care tab, the White House responded with a statistic suggesting costs would go down...It turns out that may be fuzzy math.
The head of the nonpartisan economic unit at Medicare that produced the original cost report says the White House number "does not provide a meaningful or accurate indication" of the effect of the health care law.
"The amounts quoted in the White House blog are not meaningful and cannot be used to calculate the change in health expenditures per insured person," Richard Foster, Medicare's chief actuary, told The Associated Press.
If you divide total national health care spending by a bigger number of insured people, you get a smaller per-person result. It's an interesting statistic, but it doesn't mean the problem of rising costs is solved.
"It's not that it's false, it's just that it will be a little misleading," John Allen Paulos, a mathematics professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, said of the White House number, calling it an "apples-to-oranges miscomparison."
The real truth is less interesting to liberal progressives than the facts at hand, YES we did and do need to reform a lot of things in this country BUT, I SAID BUT, we do not need a debacle like this bill laid at our feet, at no time was this nightmare ever going to "Reform" anything, it was meant to break our economic backs and it will succeed if we don't take it back and REALLY FIX it for good.
The problem is not WHAT we need to do, the problem is as it always has been, GREEDY MEN AND WOMEN whose aim is SELF over the rest of us, we cannot afford to listen to people who make up numbers to fit their agendas instead of seeing reality and caring for America instead of their coffers and pensions!
Here's an article from The Daily Beast: An eye opener!
Lenin said: "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
Congressional Budget Office additional information
about the potential effects of H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(PPACA, Public Law 111-148)
CBO Confirms Millions of Low- and Middle-Income Americans to Pay New Health Care Mandate Tax
While the news is certainly disturbing, it should not be shocking. Republicans and non-partisan experts have predicted for months millions of employees will lose their health insurance as a result of the new law.
* The Obama Administration’s own Medicare actuaries released their analysis of the Democrats’ health overhaul warning that 16 million Americans will lose employer-provided health insurance.
* The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimate predicts that 9 million Americans will lose employer-provided health insurance because of the significant changes the Democrats made to America’s health care system.
How can this be true? As Fortune.com points out, because of the way the Democrats wrote the health law, it is much cheaper for many employers to pay the tax penalty than it is to offer health insurance to their employees. For example:
* An AT&T report notes that they spent $4.7 billion on medical costs but would have been taxed a much lower amount ($600 million) for not offering their 1.2 million employees, retirees, and their dependents’ health care benefits – a savings of $4.1 billion for the company.
* Fortune estimates Caterpillar could reduce its expenses by 70% if they eliminate health benefits and instead pay the tax.
Anyone who believes this is O.K. must be delusional after seeing these facts. There is NO GOOD REASON to keep this bill intact and EVERY GOOD reason to repeal it and REALLY fix health care RIGHT!
NFIB Confirms Health Care Law Bad For Workers
Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI)
“If it is bad for small businesses, it is bad for America, and this health care law is bad for both.”
FACT # 1:
Employers are already being hit by hundreds of millions of dollars in added costs, putting the nation’s economic recovery further in doubt.
So far, some of America’s biggest companies have begun warning that the tax changes in the Democrats’ health care bill will reduce their earnings, threatening their ability to hire new workers and retain existing ones. Here is a quick look at just some of those companies, the number of workers they employ, and the added charges to earnings they will bear as a result of the Democrats’ health care bill:
Company | Number of Employees | Increase In Health Care Costs |
3M
| 74,835
| $90 million
|
AT&T
| 281,000
| $1 billion
|
Caterpillar
| 93,813
| $100 million
|
John Deere
| 51,300
| $150 million
|
Medtronic
| 41,000
| $150-200 million
|
Prudential
| 41,943
| $100 million
|
Valero
| 20,920
| $15-20 million
|
In order to protect investors, companies are required under law and regulation to report on rapid and current basis material changes in a company’s financial position.
FACT # 2:
The Democrats’ health care bill could discourage the hiring of new workers.
The health care bill does nothing to help small businesses with their already skyrocketing health care costs. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) premiums will continue to increase. Adding insult to injury, the legislation’s so-called small business tax credits could force employers to choose between hiring new workers and losing the value of the credit. Under the Democrats’ health care bill, the value of the tax credit phases out for businesses with 11 or more workers and disappears completely for those with more than 25 employees. Some small business owners may have to think twice before they seek to hire new employees out of fear they might lose their tax credit on their existing workers.
FACT # 3:
The Democrats’ health care bill could encourage employers to keep wages low.
Further harming the nation’s economic recovery, access to the “small business tax credit" phases out when a small business’s average employee salary exceeds $25,000 and completely prohibits small businesses from receiving these credits if the average employee’s salary exceeds $50,000. As a result, the legislation could give an incentive for employers to keep their employee wages low enough to receive the tax credit. No wonder the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), which represents more than 350,000 small employers, stated the Democrats’ health overhaul “could have some adverse consequences on employee wages…could lead to workers – especially lower-wage workers – seeing stagnant wages for a longer period of time.”
FACT # 4:
Nearly 90 percent of small businesses employees will be forced to grapple with higher health care costs on their own.
The non-partisan CBO estimated that 88 percent of those who get health insurance from a small employer work for a business that will not receive tax credits under the Democrats’ legislation.
Again, it is no wonder NFIB said, “the small business tax credit will do little to nothing to make purchasing insurance affordable for more small firms.”
FACT # 5:
Small businesses that provide more than one-quarter of the jobs in America are most likely to pay higher Medicare taxes.
The Democrats’ health care overhaul created a new Medicare tax. Since the majority of small businesses pay taxes at the individual level, this tax will hit the income of many small business owners. According to NFIB, “The businesses most likely to see the tax increase are those that employ between 20 to 200 workers. These businesses account for more than one-quarter of the American workforce.” This is the last thing that the 1 in 10 Americans currently out-of-work need. Congress should be looking to help employers create jobs, not adopting policies that further threaten job creation and job growth.
FACT # 6:
The Democrats' health care bill encourages underemployment.
According to recent estimates, up to 20 percent of Americans are underemployed. Yet, despite widespread underemployment, the bill encourages growing small businesses to hire only part-time workers. Under the Democrats’ employer mandate, which includes new taxes based on the number of full-time equivalent employees, only businesses with more than 50 employees are subject to the new taxes. However, part-time employees offer a way to avoid exceeding this threshold. For example, a growing small business could add several part-time employees and as long their total hours do not exceed 120 per month these part-time employees do not count towards the 50 employee threshold.
NOTE:
Camp is the author of the House Republican health care bill, which was the only legislation scored by the non-partisan CBO as reducing premiums across the board – for individuals and families as well as small and large businesses. Specifically, CBO estimated the House Republican bill would reduce premiums for small businesses by up to 10 percent or $1,930.
IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTICE HOW THE LIBERALS ARE MISSING THE GREAT BIG POINT IN FRONT OF THEM AGAIN! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OVERWHELMINGLY HATED THIS BILL THEN AS THEY DO NOW!
Read the following below then decide!
Dr. Milton R. Wolf, a board-certified, practicing diagnostic radiologist and cousin of President Obama's, addresses the President
His own relation know better!
This Doctor knows more than any CBO what it will cost us all in the end, listen to reason not progressive propaganda!