'Is everybody wrong?"
That, in three simple words, was the question a reporter asked President
Obama last week.
"Yes, they are," the president said with a straight face. "People will look
back and they'll be asking, 'What was the argument about? Why is everybody
fighting this so much?'"
Why? Well, here, Mr. President, are just a few of the many, many reasons:
• You can't keep your own health care. The president spent
the past four years assuring Americans that "if you like your plan, you can keep
it." Not so, said doubters, but he castigated them as obstructionist naysayers
playing politics.
Except they turned out to be right: You can't keep your plan. But the media
say: wrong. Companies are killing coverage they once offered to employees and
heading into government exchanges. Huge companies like Home Depot. More — many
more — will follow. What does it mean? Millions of workers will soon be forced
to choose only from government policies.
Just as bad, other giant corporations, like the country's largest drugstore
chain, are opting for private exchanges in which workers will need to buy their
own insurance. What it means: fewer choices and higher costs (as companies
likely won't raise contributions when premiums rise — as they always do).
• Your health records no longer will be private — and
neither will your sex life. "Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner,
multiple partners or same-sex partners?" That's just one of the questions you'll
soon be forced to answer.
Why? Because once the government's involved, everything is its business.
Doctors and hospitals won't get your tax money unless they comply with every jot
and tittle of the law. And the president is hiring tens of thousands of IRS
workers to police his program, so he'll have the firepower to get your data.
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Monday, September 23, 2013
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