Are We To Suffer Obama Medicare and Huge Taxes?

Have you asked your doctor if he’s for the Health Care Reform bill?

After my recent eye exam, I commented to my optometrist that Health Care Reform seems like a big Medicare plan. My optometrist agreed, said she thinks Health Care Reform is a bad idea, and relayed stories of friends who live in the U.K. but come here to the U.S. for some medical treatment, because they feel medical care in the U.K. is not good enough.

We’ve all heard of the Canadians who come to the U.S. to obtain medical care, because the wait for treatment can be so long in Canada. And when it’s your health at stake, does one want to wait for months?

Now, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has unequivocally stated that the Health Care Reform bill will mean “quality and affordable health care for all Americans.”

What’s more, Gibbs states that the Health Care Reform will not add to the deficit. Now, that’s a statement we can take to the bank, right?

No wonder some Democrats were so dismissive of the Congressional Budget Office, which came out with a ‘preliminary’ analysis of the Health Care bill on June 15, and mailed a letter with that analysis to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Here are excerpts of that letter:

“The attached table summarizes our preliminary assessment of the proposal’s budgetary effects and its likely impact on insurance coverage. According to that assessment, enacting the proposal would result in a net increase in federal budget deficits of about $1.0 trillion over the 2010–2019 period.”

Hey Gibbs! Didn’t you say that the Health Care Reform bill will not add to the deficit? Here we have the CBO stating that our deficit will increase by $1 trillion from 2010-2019. Hmmm. In order to not increase the deficit with a $1 trillion health care bill, that must mean we will be paying a lot more in taxes.

“Once the proposal was fully implemented, about 39 million individuals would obtain coverage through the new insurance exchanges. At the same time, the number of people who had coverage through an employer would decline by about 15 million (or roughly 10 percent), and coverage from other sources would fall by about 8 million, so the net decrease in the number of people uninsured would be about 16 million.”

Wait a New York second! So we’re going to pay oodles of money to fund Health Care Reform, the cost of which is unknown, increase our deficit by at least $1 trillion by 2019, pay lots more in taxes, and all that will still leave millions of Americans uninsured? Read the CBO report yourself here.

Anyone else thinking of this Health Care Reform as a boat with too many holes to sail? Or will Congress plug the boat enough for it to sail, only to sink with our money in it, later?