This article walks through all the incentives in the health care bill to drop coverage. To employers who don’t currently provide health insurance, the new law is a 2,000 dollar per emplyee tax – yet another reason for them to hire as few people as possible.  To employers who do provide health insurance, the bill is an incentive to drop the coverage they do have,  because that coverage very probably costs them less than the tax.  My concern is that once the practice of dropping coverage, and shifting people on to the government program, begins in an industry, it will spread rapidly.

In August, Missourians sent a strong message to Washington, D.C.  They couldn’t have been more clear: “We are opposed to the federal takeover of our health care system.”  Washington didn’t listen.  In November, voters across the country are going to send yet another message to Washington.  I hope Republican leaders are listening and will bring up and hopefully pass a repeal of the health care bill.  If we can’t get a full repeal, they should consider defunding the implementation or repealing the most egregious portions.

The government has grown while the private economy has shrunk. Note that in the 2.5 year period from January, 2008 until July, 2010, private employment shrunk by almost 7% while federal employment increased by 10%.  Since the private sector pays for the public sector, that fact explains the huge deficits during the same period.  We have no choice but to put government on a diet while growing the private economy.  But our leaders in Washington haven’t figured that out yet.

Now we see what Obamacare means: price controls. They don’t seem to understand that if you artificially control prices, you get artificial shortages. So “progressivism” actually means reactionary tendencies: a retreat to the policies of the 1930′s, before we understood how economies work. They mean to tell us what insurance we have to buy, what medical care we are supposed to want, and what prices we have to pay. And how many jobs in the insurance business will this cost us?

The need for entitlement reform is undeniable. The programs can not be sustained as the are currently being run. Those who are not for reform are therefore supporting the end of the programs.

During the debate over Obamacare, the President said, if you liked your health care plan you could keep it. We knew that wasn’t true six months ago, and we are seeing the impact today. Over the summer, I partnered with local physician Dr. Charles Willey and the Heritage Foundation to sponsor a question/answer session on Obamacare. More than 500 seniors attended and they were frightened about the changes to Medicare and Medicare Advantage that will be coming. They should be afraid.

In the real world, millions of people are being hurt because the President wanted to socially reengineer America and was too inexperienced to realize how much he didn’t know.

While our leaders in Washington are interfering in health care and running up the debt, they are not confronting the real issues of national security, like the threat posed by China.

The Heritage Foundation’s, Mike Franc gets it right in this OpEd for National Review.  He understands the genius of the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit that has made this country great.  Our President does not.

The Republican Study Committee has released a month by month recap of what the country has found out about the health care legislation since it passed.  It’s devastating.  Take a look.

http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/UploadedFiles/PB_092310_6_Months_of_Obamacare.pdf

Various provisions of Obamacare go into effect today, and just yesterday the President made a statement that he didn’t do a good job explaining the benefits of the bill. Here’s where he is wrong again – Americans understand the bill, they just don’t like it. Business owners understand the bill, they just don’t like it. Medicare recipients understand the bill, they just don’t like it. And why should anyone like a bill that increases the deficit, raises taxes and health care costs, reduces competition, shifts millions of Americans from private insurance to the public dole, and forces people to change their health care? No amount of “explaining” will change the underlying facts.