Free Health Insurance – A Disturbing Myth
by Repeal the Health Care Reform Bill Editor on April 16, 2010
in In My Opinion
According to Google, almost 10,000 people search for "free health insurance" each month. The sad thing is some people actually believe there’s free health insurance coming their way since the passage of the recent health reform law. Misinformation abounds and no one wants to hear that free is never really free.
Even if you do qualify for "free" health insurance under the plan, and I don’t know what the qualifications for that might be, somebody, notably taxpayers, are paying for that free care.
Recent reports have stated that nearly half of all American’s don’t actually have to pay federal income taxes (the portion of taxes paid that will be used to fund the expenses of the healthcare law). This means that only about half of America is going to be expected to pay for or subsidize health insurance premiums for the other half of the country. That number should disturb you.
If you went into work one day and was told that half of you were going to have to pool your money so that it could be distributed to the other half of your company’s workforce, how would you feel?
Robbed is the word I’d use, and yes, that’s exactly how I feel now—and it’s probably not even that much of my money that’s going to be used because I come from a small rural community where incomes are modest by national standards and my federal tax liability last year was a meager $981 after the $800 making work pay tax credit.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want anyone else’s money unless I’ve earned it, and I know I haven’t earned it just by living and breathing.
The thing is, I would be phenomenally angry to discover that someone was stealing money out of my family money jar to pay for something for someone else, no matter the reason. This kind of forced charity does nothing but create resentment and anger, and I don’t like what it’s doing to Americans as a whole. We’re becoming angry enough not to want to give anything, because we’re sick and tired of being forced to give and give and give.
The healthcare reform law is imposing a form of collectivism and socialism on the American people, no doubt about it. Going against the founding principles of our nation is never the right thing, even though many people will tell you that giving is the right thing to do. Forced giving? How is that right?
There’s no such thing as free health insurance—just free-to-somebody health insurance.
States Suing Federal Government Over Health Care Reform
by Repeal the Health Care Reform Bill Editor on April 7, 2010
in In the News
Arizona and Nevada to Sue Federal Government Over Health Care Reform
PHOENIX -- The governors of Arizona and Nevada say their states will join 14 others suing the federal government over health care reform. Gov. Jan Brewer announced Arizona was joining the suit Tuesday night. She signed a bill April 1 that gave her the authority to skirt the state's Democratic attorney general, Terry Goddard, who declined to sue on the state's behalf. Republicans say the bill signed by President Obama is unconstitutional in part because it requires people to buy private health insurance. Goddard and other Democrats say a suit would be unlikely to succeed and thus a waste of taxpayer money. Also Tuesday, Gov. Jim Gibbons signed an executive order for Nevada to join the multistate challenge to the federal legislation. Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat, refused an earlier directive from Gibbons to join the suit.