The Lies and Deception of National Healthcare

The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, AKA; "Obamacare." 
What's the real reason for Obamacare? Is it really to provide care to those few million people who can't get insurance due to a preexisting health condition? Or for those who just can’t afford it? Or is it for "the children"? NO, those are just the sales pitches designed to make you feel bad for all those people who are being "denied" their "rights" and to make you believe that this government program is going to make healthcare MORE AFFORDABLE for EVERYONE. Those promises are ALL LIES. It's even called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). That sounds like it's going to be good for you, right??? WRONG! It has nothing to do with making Health Insurance “Affordable” or “Protecting Patients.” Here is what this is REALLY all about, it’s about Cost Containment, plain and simple.  
 

Back in 1989, the Federal Government commissioned a study, a study on the rise in the cost of Medicaid spending due to nursing home costs.  People were spending through their own assets paying for nursing homes because Medicare and Medicare Supplements don't cover Custodial Care (non-medically necessary care).   This is the type of care most people need toward the latter years of their lives.  As people reach their 70s, 80s, and 90s, things, as my grandmother used to say, just wear out.  They need help with what is called the "Activities of Daily Living"  (dressing, bathing, toileting, transferring, etc.) Or they need round the clock supervision due to Alzheimer’s, Dementia or another cognitive disease.   Now when people run through their own assets and are no longer able to pay for this type of care from their personal savings,  they end up going on to what is called Medicaid.  

Medicaid is a joint Federal and State program that pays for care for those who can't afford to pay for their own care.  Well back in 1989,  the study the Feds had commissioned said that statistically, 1 out of every 3 men and 1 out of every 2 women would end up needing care in a nursing facility sometime between the age of 65 and mortality. The study also said that the average stay in the facility would be 2.5 to 3 years, and that the average cost (at that time) would be $3,000 per month and that on average the person entering the facility would run through their assets and qualify for Medicaid within 3 to 4 months of entering the facility.  This meant that Medicaid would be on the hook for somewhere between $81,000 and $99,000 per patient.   The average stay in a nursing facility is now between 3 and 4 years, and in 2017 the average cost of a semi-private room in a nursing home in the U.S. is over $6,235 a month, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  A private room in a nursing home averages $6,965.  Medicaid pays about 70% of the retail cost.  So, the average price the Feds must pay for the average patient for the average stay in a semi-private room is now between $144,028 and $209,496. 

Soon the Feds determined (based on the HUGE numbers of "Baby Boomers," who would be going on to the Medicaid expense rolls when they reached their 80's) that by 2030 the vast majority of money coming into the Treasury would be going out in care costs for Medicaid and Medicare recipients.  President Obama even referred to this stat in a speech he did back in 2009 when first proposing his plan, he said " . . . Medicare and Medicaid expenditures are on a collision course with the revenue stream”, In other words; UNSUSTAINABLE EXPENSE GROWTH.  

Well, that just can't be allowed to happen so what does the Government have to do to control those costs???  How do you keep all those "Baby Boomers" (10,400 per day turning 65 right now) from going onto the Medicaid rolls???  Simple, you must put everyone under one system where they (the government) controls who gets life-extending care and who doesn't. That is why they wanted to pass a "Single Payer" system that would be completely controlled by the Federal Government (just like Medicare), but there wasn't enough support for that, so they went with the PPACA plan, to begin with. I say to "begin with" because "Single Payer" is their ultimate goal.  

Why do you think that Obamacare is so messed up?  Why can't people figure out how to get into a plan?  And if they do get into one, why is it usually more expensive (unless they are getting a subsidy) than their old plan?  Why are they being forced into higher Deductibles, higher Stop Losses and why do the premiums keep rising at an astronomical rate?  Why???  It's intentional, they want to make you so mad at the system that you DEMAND they change it, and what will they offer to fix it ??? Why "Single Payer" of course.  Which is TOTAL CONTROL.  Why do they want total control of who gets life-extending care and who doesn't?   Think about it, let's say you're 75 years old and have a significant health issue. Now if you don't get that Bypass Surgery or that Liver Transplant or that Cancer Treatment, the chances that you'll live long enough to need Long-Term Nursing Care, at the average cost of $209,496, are dramatically reduced, aren't they???   

My grandfather is a perfect example of why the government wants total control of your health care.  He needed quadruple bypass surgery at the age of 76.  He got that surgery and lived to be 86.  He spent the last 6 months of his life in a nursing facility; fortunately he was covered by Nursing Home Insurance which covered the cost.  Now think for a minute, if my grandfather hadn’t received that bypass surgery, he wouldn’t have lived more than 6-12 months and guess what, the government wouldn’t have had to pay him Social Security and Medicare expenses for 10 years.  So, can you think of any reason for the government to have approved his quadruple bypass surgery if they would have had the power to deny it???

Understand this:  THIS HEALTH CARE PROGRAM IS NOT ABOUT PROVIDING MORE PEOPLE WITH BETTER CARE... IT'S COST CONTAINMENT, IT'S ABOUT GETTING RID OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE A DRAIN ON THE SYSTEM.  THEY ONLY WANT TO PROVIDE CARE FOR THOSE WHO WILL BE CONTRIBUTING TAX DOLLARS TO THE TREASURY.  IF YOU'RE ON SOCIAL SECURITY, BORN HANDICAPPED OR BECOME DISABLED, YOU ARE A DRAIN ON THE SYSTEM AND THE SOONER YOU DIE, THE BETTER.  

Now if you're thinking:  "Oh they would never do that," ask yourself this question:  If I am no longer able to be a productive taxpayer and to keep me alive is going to cost a lot of tax dollars...   what is the Government's incentive to keep me alive?  Well ??? Can't think of anything, can you? Well neither can they, that’s why there is a “Death Panel” in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. What? You didn’t see it buried in the 2,500 pages of the bill? OH, it’s there, and it is called the Independent Payment Advisory Board or IPAB. The Board is a 15-member panel of unelected federal employees; its members to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The law does not require the IPAB to be bi-partisan in structure, as is required for almost all other “independent” agencies. Its mission is precisely to restrict payments to doctors and hospitals through pricing regulations.  This is especially true for Seniors.  See Section 3022 of the PPACA.

Now, let me ask you something.  How many of the younger generation, who have been indoctrinated to believe that aborting a baby is ok because it would be a “hardship” on the mother, will not conclude that being forced to pay EXCESSIVE TAXES to keep you alive is a “hardship” on them and that YOU should be aborted?  Well ??  Are you thinking now ??? Also, notice that the Congress, the Executive Branch, and Federal Government employees are not going to be part of this plan... oh no, they have a much, much better plan.  WAKE UP.   This Elitist Political Class now thinks of themselves as being so far above us; that they should now decide who lives, and who dies . . .  for the good of “The State" of course.   Welcome to the brave new world "Comrade."  I am Whamm, may those with wisdom hear.