The Liberals-Progressives-Socialists-Leftists Democrats (whatever name they are hiding behind) are trying to divert attention from the corruption in passing ObamaCare and the government destroying of private health care. Obama and his cronies in the media and in Congress are whining about some phony charges of Republicans and Tea Party members inciting violence. This diversion is the usual trick used by Leftists; instead of answering factual objections to ObamaCare, the Leftists change the subject and resort to name calling. With this tactic, the Leftists don't have to do any actual thinking and don't have to deviate from their standard talking points which avoid the truth and are much easier to just parrot.
Here are some real issues that Obama and his puppets never address:
1. The Democratic Senate modifications to the Democratic ObamaCare have further increased the tax hikes to $620 billion and the Medicare cuts to $530 billion over ten years. Obama has never addressed the "double counting" of savings brought to light by Rep Paul Ryan or the decline in care that must occur with Medicare cuts of that magnitude.
2. ObamaCare only gives token attention to the $50 to $60 billion per year in Medicare and Medicaid fraud; which would be $500 to 600 billion cost cutting. Why hire 16,000 agents to go after that fraud instead of looking for those that don't want to buy insurance.
3. ObamaCare still has no allowance for buying health insurance across state lines; so while Obama demagogues about the insurance companies, he secretly is helping them by limiting competition; the result will be premium rate hikes for everyone.
4. ObamaCare has no provisions for meaningful tort reform; the outrageous lawsuit awards some get are only the tip of the iceberg in cost. The big savings would be from reducing unnecessary expensive defensive tests ordered by most doctors and hospitals
5. Remember the pledge for no tax increases on those making less than $200,000 per year? Well ObamaCare alone has the following taxes that hit about 72 million who are making less than $200,000/year.
-A tax of 2.9% on medical devices, conveniently starting in 2013 after the next presidential election.
-A tax amounting to $4.8 billion per year on prescription drugs starting in 2011 when full impact will not be understood until after the next presidential election.
-A tax on health insurance starting in 2014 amounting to $9 billion per year and increasing in 2017 to $10 billion per year; if paid by insurance companies this will be passed along to all insurance policy premiums. Again, conveniently starts after the next presidential election.
-A tax on so-called "Cadillac" policies of 40% over some threshold premium amount; so if you have a great private policy you will be taxed. If the employer agrees to pay this, then it will be passed along to affect raises, bonuses and hiring.
-A reduction in the allowable deduction for medical expenses by raising the threshold for deductions from the current 7.5% of your adjusted Gross Income to 10%' so if you have some unusually high medical expenses you get penalized in deducting the expenses from your income tax no matter what your income level.
-A tax on employers who provide health insurance of $3000 per employee who qualifies as from a"low income family". This will discourage hiring of people from "low income families" or affect wages and other benefits or encourage employers to not provide insurance and simply pay the fine.
-6. Obama claims this is not a takeover of the health industry, but ObamaCare creates 58 government bureaus or agencies and hires 16,000 new IRS investigators; this sure smells like a government takeover.
It's obvious that Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the Democratic leadership has lied and most of the media and hard core Democratic voters are playing along.
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