The ObamaCare Cheat Sheet
If you want a very good brief summary of the Democrats’ first attempt at a massive nationalized health care plan, you should read Keith Hennessey’s post on the subject. His summary is as good as you’re likely to find anywhere, including anything that will come from the White House.
Here’s the very first point he teased out of the proposal.
The Kennedy-Dodd bill would create an individual mandate requiring you to buy a “qualified” health insurance plan, as defined by the government. If you don’t have “qualified” health insurance for a given month, you will pay a new Federal tax. Incredibly, the amount and structure of this new tax is left to the discretion of the Secretaries of Treasury and Health and Human Services (HHS), whose only guidance is “to establish the minimum practicable amount that can accomplish the goal of enhancing participation in qualifying coverage (as so defined).” The new Medical Advisory Council (see #3D) could exempt classes of people from this new tax. To avoid this tax, you would have to report your health insurance information for each month of the prior year to the Secretary of HHS, along with “any such other information as the Secretary may prescribe.”
It only gets worse from there.
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My current plan is the "Fly to Thailand when You Get Sick" plan. So I'm not entirely keen on this. But what's rare in this case is that there's an Angel in the details. That detail is that the government plan MUST cover me at minimal additional costs. That works for me. I keep healthy and am not a big risk. Except for genetic predisposition to a lot of cancers and a neck that is so messed up that few doctors believe I can walk. But those two issues make it impossible for me the get insurance from anyone but extremely expensive specialty insurers. And they want $75K a year.
If the government can insure me, I'll gladly take that. And take me to the VA for care, they do good work. Easier than flying to Thailand. And you get American service! Well, don't get too excited. The American doctors are a little better than the Thai. But the Thai nurses are the best in the world. And, no, they don't give "special services." Once a Thai women can make a legitimate living, she'll keep doing it. Yeah, she'll do her best to marry up, but she'll settle like everyone else. At least she isn't sleeping with stinky Americans anymore (that's how you pay for nursing school). We smell like beef and cheese, and they hate those smells. The stinky comment is literal, and it takes months of a different diet to change it.