A joint multi-state lawsuit has been filed challenging the health care reform bill passed by the Obama administration earlier this year. A federal judge approved the lawsuit to go forward and called the defense of the Democrats an “Alice in Wonderland” argument.
Pawlenty told CNN this week, “I think Obamacare is one of the worst pieces of legislation passed in the modern history of the country, “I’m doing everything I can in Minnesota to stop, delay or avoid implementation in my state, including signing an executive order saying we’re not going to participate unless required by law or approved by me.”
Minnesota has been ordered by Pawlenty to ignore discretionary grants that come from the new health care legislation as well as oppose enrolling more people in Medicare via a federal offer.
The lawsuit is scheduled to move forward on December 16 which is the scheduled trial date. A collection of state attorney generals and governors hope to bring this lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court. The possibilities of this happening are very real.
In my opinion, it may almost be better for the GOP to lose this lawsuit. A win without a solution could be used in political rhetoric in the 2012 campaigning by the democrats. The desperate-crats are looking for anything to campaign on besides their record. Smart democrats will point to the gridlock of this lawsuit as a reason to keep them in power and move forward with four more years of Obama care.
In the end it is just the usual game of political game of checkers with the American people being used as pawns. Millions of Americans believe that the health care legislation was crap. Yet at the same time, millions of Americans do believe that there should be reform. Doing something is not better than doing nothing. I just hope that if the states do win this lawsuit that there is a plan B here because just stopping the health reform without a solution is going to do nobody any favors.
Especially republicans looking to take back the office in 2012.
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However, today, they may have to pay even more careful attention. This is because of the Obama health care reform plan. Regarding this plan, there are quite a few things that they will need to know about. Here are the things:
• The health insurance service providers in existence will no longer have the power to keep away from having to insure those people who come up to them with some pre-existing conditions.
• In order for the small business owners to be able to make a purchase on their insurance plans, they will be handed over some tax credits. These tax credits are planned to reach an amount of up to fifty percent of the premium rates that they will have to pay for their insurance plans.
• Senior Medicare citizens with expenditure exceeding $2700 will be given more coverage in the health insurance plans they have signed up for.
• The youths will be able to make use of the insurance plans of their parents until they happen to reach the age of 27 years old.
• There will no longer be any limit of the amount that the health insurance service providers can pay the insured parties when this Obama health care reform plan becomes effective.
• Every single insurance plan will have to use preventative care.
• The reform plan will ban insurance service providers for cutting the sick people.
• Customers, or the insured parties, will have the capability of appealing coverage decisions. This may sound like quite a good thing for the customers.
• The health care reform plan will demand a tax of as many as 10 percent on indoor tanning which will then be used for the purpose of funding such as small business subsidization, treatment on serious diseases such as cancer and still a lot of other things to name.
• The insurance companies may well have the ability to decrease expenses. This is possible because there will be new procedures to help the companies keep themselves away from insurance fraud.
• Rural areas may obtain some benefits. Medicare is planned to reach the more rural areas with this healthcare reform plan. It is often the case that at the present time most rural areas do not have any access to insurance.
• Eighty five percent of what NPO spends their money on will be checked to find out if the percentage of the money goes along with the procedures.
• Every restaurant will have to reveal health care information such as the percentage of fat, calories and so on.
• The government will sponsor a website that will help customers find insurance in an easier way.
• There will be credit from the government for the companies looking for new preventative care treatment.
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Moody’s Investors Service broke the news that states will see increased costs with federal health care reform. States will be hit hard on Medicaid. The report only bolsters critics of health care reform feel tax payers will be paying for the health care agenda of the Obama administration.
Starting in 2014, the report indicates that Medicaid changes will hit states the hardest. According to reports, Medicaid accounts for 20 % of state’s budgets in its current state. The obvious math here means that Medicaid expansion will increase costs. States in the midst of a budget crisis like California are in some serious trouble once these health care changes come into play in 2014.
Michigan, another troubled state is already warning tax payers of increased fiscal demands related to Medicaid expansion. Reports indicate that Michigan will wind up paying over $200 million annually in new costs. Indiana is also warning their tax payers of increased financial demands.
My biggest issue with health care reform has been the secrecy when it comes to new costs. Nobody has given any definitive answers as to how much this will cost the taxpayers. While health care reform is necessary, it needs to be done correctly. For every analyst that tells me it won’t increase my costs, another two tell me it will. I fear that the rash changes will cripple any economic recovery seen over the last year plus. I hope I am wrong, but I just don’t see where the money is going to come from to cover these increased costs.
Thanks to financial-planning.com for the tip.
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