Beware: ObamaCare’s now reality

[Valin]

NY Post:

 

BETSY McCAUGHEY

11/13/12

 

President Obama’s re-election and Democratic gains in the US Senate end any possibility of repealing the Obama health law. It will roll out as written, imposing major changes soon on you and your family. If you are uninsured because you can’t afford it, help may be on the way. But if you are one of the 250 million Americans with coverage, there are big problems ahead.

 

If you get your health insurance through a job, you might lose it as of Jan. 1, 2014. That’s when the new “employer mandate” kicks in, requiring employers with 50 or more full-time workers to provide the government-designed health plan or pay a fine. The government plan is so expensive, it adds $1.79 per hour to the cost of a full-time employee. That’s incidental if you're hiring neurosurgeons but a hefty increase for hiring busboys and sales clerks.

 

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If you’re a senior or a baby boomer, expect less care than in the past. Cuts to future Medicare funding pay for more than half the Obama health law. Hospitals, for example, will have $247 billion less to care for same number of seniors than if the law had not passed. Hospitals will spread nurses thinner. California nurses already are striking over the increased workloads.

 

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I read an article discussing the coming fight between the 20 to 65 year olds on Obamacare versus the 65 year olds on Medicare. Thinking is Medicare crowd is going to lose political influence as politicians have to focus on keeping the much longer living Obamacare and rapidly growing base on the new program.

[Valin]

I read an article discussing the coming fight between the 20 to 65 year olds on Obamacare versus the 65 year olds on Medicare. Thinking is Medicare crowd is going to lose political influence as politicians have to focus on keeping the much longer living Obamacare and rapidly growing base on the new program.

 

Speaking as someone who is 64 I've got some real serious profound issues with that.