What is the Healthcare Bill?

There are more people than makes me comfortable who know nothing about what’s going on in Washington these days. Many sit back and let everyone around them tell them what’s important. Why seek out important news when you can let it come to you?

In fact, I’ve taken that attitude many times in my own life, until more recent years. The passing of the Healthcare Reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was my wake up call.

For those who are just waking up to the mess that was the passage of the healthcare reform bill back in March 2010, here is the answer to my title question, what is the healthcare bill?

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

According to Healthcare.gov, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act healthcare reform bill "have brought an end to some of the worst abuses of the insurance industry."

"These reforms have given Americans new rights and benefits, by helping more children get health coverage, ending lifetime and most annual limits on care, allowing young adults under 26 to stay on their parent’s health insurance, and giving patients access to recommended preventive services without cost."

But that’s not all.

"More rights, protections and benefits for Americans are on the way through 2014."

The truth about Obamacare and the healthcare reform bill as it stands now though is that most real experts believe it will lead to even higher costs and yet still leave millions uninsured.

If you really want to learn about the new health insurance legislation, then follow that Healthcare.gov link above and read what the government has to say about the healthcare law, but when you’re done with that, be sure to look at some other sources for information, sources that won’t give you a whitewashed version of the alleged benefits of Obamacare. The book, The Truth About Obamacare, is a great place to start.

The Truth About Obamacare: Sally C. Pipes Reveals Just How Bad it Could Get

If you’re concerned about the coming problems resulting from the passage of the The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, then this book is a great place to start reading and learning about the law.

Buy The Truth About Obamacare at Amazon

Available formats include paperback, Kindle ebook, audio CD, and MP3 audio book.

The Truth About Obamacare outlines what you need to know about the impact of this law, how it will affect you and your family, your doctor, and your cost for healthcare. It also explains how the health care law will affect the health care industry and America’s economy.

If you’ve been wondering what the big deal is about the current health care reform, The Truth about Obamacare is a book about the new health care law that will open your eyes.

Product Description

The Truth About Obamacare

In her new book, The Truth About Obamacare, Sally C. Pipes—president of the Pacific Research Institute and an acknowledged expert on health care reform—reveals what Democrats in Congress and President Obama don’t want you to know: Obamacare is even worse than most critics suspect. Debunking the myths that the current administration has touted, Pipes shows exactly what the new health care law will mean for you, your family, your doctor, and your wallet. She also reveals how, contrary to its promises, Obamacare will make health care more expensive, limit your options, lead to deteriorating medical care, and weaken America’s already frail economy.

From the Bookcover’s Inside Flap

This is going to hurt.

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law a bill that will lead to the largest expansion of government in the history of the United States. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was more than 2,400 pages long and will reportedly cost a cool $1 trillion over ten years, give or take a few hundred billion.

But sticker shock is just the beginning. In The Truth about Obamacare, Sally Pipes shows how Obama’s health care “reform” will crash into our economy and culture with a tidal wave of regulations that, taken together, will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and see our doctors. How will all those changes affect you, your family, and your fellow Americans? Pipes goes over the bill with a fine-tooth comb, laying out the specifics of how and why Obamacare:

• will drive the country’s health care bill ever higher, according to the government’s own economists 
• empowers bureaucrats to deny coverage of cutting-edge medicines in order to save the government money 
• will exacerbate our nation’s shortage of doctors—and in fact, is already causing many to close up shop 
• will make health care less affordable by forbidding insurers from offering inexpensive, bare-bones policies 
• ratchets up Medicare payroll taxes—and adds brand new taxes on income—interest, capital gains, and dividends 
• achieves every penny of its supposed “savings” through a series of legislative and accounting gimmicks 
• creates a huge new enforcement bureaucracy—including 16,000 new IRS agents and an astounding 159 new boards and commissions—to hound taxpayers, businesses, hospitals, doctors, and insurers into compliance 
• will still leave 23 million Americans uninsured by 2019, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Is it too late to stop Obamacare? By no means, argues Pipes—who shows how Americans can, and must, force its repeal. Then, she offers ten principles for real reform that would make health care accessible and affordable for all without destroying individual freedom, quality treatment, medical innovation, and the economy.

Sally C. Pipes doesn’t stop with giving us a breakdown of what’s wrong with Obamacare. She discusses how we can fix the system we currently have that will not lead us down the path toward government run health care.

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Free Health Insurance – A Disturbing Myth

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.