On the Healthcare Front

Posted on Thursday, September 12, 2013 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

Another union leader has declared that if Obamacare can’t be fixed it should be repealed:

President of the Laborers’ International Union of North America Terry O’Sullivan emphatically stated if Obamacare cannot be fixed it needs to be repealed Wednesday at an AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles.

O’Sullivan warned health insurance plans for organized labor are “under siege” and it will be a “big fricken deal if our members lose our health insurance.”

Despite White House opposition, the AFL-CIO passed the resolution calling Obamacare “highly disruptive” to union health plans.

There is no way to fix Obamacare to appease the unions without giving them special privileges that won’t apply to all Americans. This is one of the many the problems with this big government solution to healthcare. One size does not fit all but with big time government regulation we are trying to fit lots of square pegs into round holes and driving the cost and inconvenience up in the process.

Free market solutions work better. News from the same publication, The Washington free Beacon, reveals that Bush’s Medicare Part D plan, written so that it utilizes market forces, IS WORKING:

The American Action Forum released a report Thursday finding the Medicare Part D program has been successful in its first ten years, with significantly lower government expenditures than projected, low beneficiary costs, and high customer satisfaction, according to an AAF release.

The success of Part D over the past decade makes it a model for future entitlement reforms, the report reads:

The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit has been an unmitigated success. A market-based approach to further federal entitlement program offers additional opportunities for controlling taxpayer costs and generating high levels of beneficiary satisfaction.

The free market works to keep costs down. The free market creates competition and jobs.

Our healthcare and social security systems would work better with the governments role cut way back to oversight using simple, succinct regulation that everybody understands.

October first the Trainwreck begins in earnest. Next years healthcare will be such an unnecessary unholy mess…keep calling, faxing, emailing, tweeting…we the people are the power IF we turn the key!

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5 Responses to On the Healthcare Front

  1. Tina says:
    Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 4:42 pm

    the folks at National Review report that employees at Indiana University will see job changes because of Obamacare:

    Indiana University, which currently spends $215 million a year on health care, will shift 50 maintenance and custodial employees to an outside contractor that will hire them and will manage their hours. According to Indiana’s WRTV, the university is doing so to avoid paying for health insurance for the workers — Obamacare will require that all hourly employees who work 30 or more hours a week be provided with “affordable” health insurance.

    Graduate students at IU have also fallen victim to Obamacare, as the university will be limiting the number of hours they can work to keep them under the 30-hour threshold as well.

  2. Tina says:
    Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 9:27 pm

    Aetna Insurance is pulling out of the ACA exchange in New Jersey and will reassess options on a year by year basis.

    There have been many stories about the states not being ready by October first. But what if October first comes and very few people apply? With so many people disenchanted with the law it’s entirely possible. What happens then?

  3. Tina says:
    Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 9:37 pm

    Barnabus Health in New Jersey announced employees will be let go because of pressures brought on by the ACA. Barnabus Health is New Jerseys second largest employer.

    Barnabas employs more than 19,000 people and more than 4,700 physicians, and is looking to expand its footprint in New Jersey. In May, it took over Jersey City Medical Center in Hudson County.

    But Barry Ostrowsky, president and chief executive officer, recently spoke of revenue pressures becoming a greater challenge, in part, because of the Affordable Care Act.

    Hospitals across the country are trying to figure out how the new law, colloquially known as “Obamacare,” will impact their revenues. The New Jersey Hospitals Association estimated that cuts to Medicare, written into the new law, will cost $4.5 billion over the next 10 years.

    There is no clear way to calculate the amount of revenue that will be realized from newly insured patients…it depends on how many sign up, how organized the exchanges are, and how much chaos ensues.

    Right now its a bit of a crap shoot and unfortunately, at least for now, more people will join the ranks of the unemployed.

  4. Tina says:
    Friday, September 13, 2013 at 9:28 pm

    Guess who’s complaining loudest about Obamacare? Who said the following:

    It will “destroy the foundation of the 40-hour workweek that is the backbone of the American middle class.”

    • It will “end up forcing millions out of multi-employer plans.”

    • It “creates unstoppable incentives for employers to reduce weekly hours for workers.”

    • Its “perverse incentives are already creating nightmare scenarios.”

    • “In its rush to achieve its passage, many of the act’s provisions were not fully conceived.”

    • And, repealing ObamaCare would “protect our employers, our industry and our most important asset: our members and their families.”

    Republicans are targeted as the bad guys but this was said by union guys who back the Dems and backed passage of the legislation.

    The article also reports on changes made to the law, and missed (unlawfully) deadlines.

  5. Tina says:
    Monday, September 16, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    In his piece, “Desperate Defenders,” Seth Mandel of Commentary points out the ludicrous way that some on the left are attempting to blame Republicans for the “for the flaws in what was a law passed by Democrats against bipartisan and public opposition.”

    He sites a USA article and a PEW poll to show how information is cherry picked to place blame on Republicans and concludes:

    Republicans have pursued their opposition to ObamaCare through the constitutional process. First, Republicans and Democrats rallied public opinion. Then they voted against the law. Then they challenged the law’s constitutionality in court. They lost. Now they are trying to pass congressional legislation to either repeal the bill or limit its harm. When they lose, they do not pretend they won; they simply redouble their efforts for another try, which is what really bothers commentators like Mann.

    This whole process, of advocating for the concerns of their constituents and then taking part in the legislative process, is a pretty basic part of congressional work. That leftists don’t seem to understand it or have patience for it is unfortunate. That they are enraged beyond reason by it is more than troubling. That some of them, like USA Today and think-tankers like Thomas Mann, have identified this democratic process as the enemy pretty conclusively demonstrates that it isn’t the Republican Party or the conservative movement whose adherents have become unhinged by ObamaCare, but the president’s increasingly desperate supporters.

    Very interesting, at least from my perspective.

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