This is the Turning Point

This is the day that made the election of Mitt Romney a certainty! Today was the turning point in this campaign that will ignite and empower the conservative wing of the Republican Party behind Romney, which was previously a concern given his reputation as a moderate. His promise to repeal this travesty as his first act as President will propel him to a convincing win.

We already know that we have the greatest health care system in the world based on quality and access. We know that even those who are uninsured, for whatever reasons, get quality care at the expense of those who can afford insurance. We have now handed this system over to the government and they have concocted a 2,700 page description of how they will run it, and the document is totally incomprehensible even to those professionals who currently are part of it.

We have seen premiums go up anywhere from 10% - 30% in the past year as we prepare for enforcement, compared with a much smaller rise in health care costs in the previous 4 years. Also, we have seen the various “glitches” that have occurred as we try to understand it, such as the violation of our First Amendment rights related to freedom of religion. Once again we have been deceived by this President, who sold this as a mandate when in fact it was a tax increase on all Americans and he did not have the guts to admit it. He left it to the Supreme Court to say it was a tax in order to be constitutional.

What this means to us, the consumer, concerning the impact on quality and accessibility, is virtually unknown. But what we do know is that if you are on Medicare there is now $500B in benefits that you will lose, much of which will go to Medicaid under State control which will be funded by the government for the first year. States than have the option to opt-out if they are concerned about their ability to sustain that program long term. If they do, the cost will go back to federal taxpayers. Also, those who have their health insurance through their employer may lose it and be force to buy it independently at a higher premium if they want the same coverage, should their employer elect to opt-out and pay a fine if it makes economic sense.

This may be a temporary victory for Obama, but it was earned on a technicality, since the President has repeatedly denied it is a tax. He has now violated another promise to the American public and it will unseat him in the final analysis. The unbiased Government Accounting Office has said that the Affordable Healthcare Act is unaffordable, because it will cost at least $2 trillion more than originally estimated and further exacerbate our debt problem. We are now on the path of socialist Europe in healthcare. Let’s make sure we repeal it before it is implemented in 2014 and becomes an entitlement that we can’t get rid of.

I hope it makes you work harder towards unseating this Administration and electing a President and Congress that will undo this fiasco.