You are hereUnless you are a political supporter Mark Begich and Barack Obama aren't interested in you
Unless you are a political supporter Mark Begich and Barack Obama aren't interested in you
By Dan Fagan
Publisher
The Alaska Standard
The party that proclaims to be for equality and fairness in reality promotes anything but.
As most of you know Obama and his little friend Mark Begich are proposing as one of the many Obama Care taxes a tax on so called Cadillac health care plans. Being socialists, Obama and Begich believe possessing things that are too nice makes you greedy and they are here to help you with your greediness.
So they will levy on all of us a 40 percent excise tax on all "Cadillac" health-care plans. 40 percent! That’s a big tax by even liberal Democrats standards.
The idea is Obama and Begich need this gigantic tax along with many others to pay for their trillion (more like ten trillion when it is all said and done) bureaucracy burdened government run health care plan.
Well these guys probably mean well and at least they are spreading the pain around for their foolishness and not giving their political supporters any special breaks. Right?
WRONG!!!!
Obama and Begich are exempting Big Labor from the 40 percent Cadillac plan tax. Why? Because Obama and Begich have been bought and paid for by the labor unions.
Just like they’ve been bought and paid for by the trial lawyers. Hence the reason there’s no tort reform in Obama care.
The sweetheart deal Big Labor hammered out behind closed doors, will save union employees at least $60 billion.
New York labor leaders -- who had initially campaigned against the Cadillac tax, favoring instead a surcharge on the wealthy -- said they are thrilled.
"We can live with it. We have an agreement that nothing will be taxed until 2018," crowed George Boncoraglio, regional president of the Civil Service Employees Association.
Officials said the deal was thrashed out over more than 15 hours of negotiating at the White House that ended after midnight Wednesday.
One source reports powerful unions were well-represented around the bargaining table. More like they were sitting on both sides of the negotiation table.
When you check the White House visitor log the most frequent guests have been Big Labor bosses. Just like Big Labor ran the city of Anchorage when Begich was in charge, it now runs the country with Obama as president.
The bottom line to all of this is Mr. Obama and Begich are not interested in doing what’s right by the nation and it’s people. They are committed to doing what’s right for their financial and political supporters. Namely Trial lawyers and labor union bosses.
The rest of us. We are stuck with trillions in new debt, big new tax increases and a health care system that will resemble the shattered one currently in use in Europe.
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Man, what is the remedy for an inflamed plebeian? Europeein' healthcare really sounds like just the prescription. This inflamed plebeian doesn't want to pay a dime for DavARob's healthcare. Mark St. Begich and BO have no money of their own to pay for my healthcare or DavARob's. They must steal it from someone else.
Now, if DavARob wishes to freely associate with others and share the risks and costs of his/her medical needs he/she should be free to do so. Imagine, if cigarette smokers were allowed to be part of a "smoker's health insurance fund" paid for by cigarette taxes how much money would be available for their healthcare! Instead, tobacco taxes are pissed away by liberal special interest hacks.
Of course getting sick will never be advantageous to individuals or societies. Neither will earthquakes or hurricanes or oppressive governments. Placing know-nothing political hacks in charge of healthcare is a proven failure and is no solution to the inevitable costs and burdens of sickness. Perhaps those who think they can control the climate think that they can deliver healthcare better than actual doctors and nurses.
I had not been trying to tout one healthcare system over another in my previous comment, I see a lot of challenges to be met no matter what kind of system we have. I was simply trying to address two fallacies, one that the nations of Europe have some singular overarching system of healthcare, and second that it is 'shattered,' as if the system is non-functional and people are dying in the streets.
On a separate tact, I wonder why everyone feels like a tax, which will provide you healthcare is stealing, when it is not going to be an additional cost, simply replace what you are already paying for. You are paying for healthcare now already, and if the government is in charge of managing the healthcare system you simply pay them, instead of BlueCross/BlueShield, Kaiser, or whomever your employer sends your contributions for your healthcare. That is unless you are already on Medicare, in which case you already are in government healthcare.
Finally, this idea that the government, should they even manage to pass any healthcare legislation, will have more beaurocrats involved in healthcare than insurance companies already do. Healthcare Insurance Companies are not run by doctors who act in the role of CEO's and the Board of Directors. It is business executives, marketing gurus, and corporate cost-cutters who tell hospitals what they'll pay for and tempt consumers with ideas that pseudoscience and quakery are worth paying extra for to be covered under your insurance. The government, actually, has a higher level of accountability to put medical professionals, such as the Surgeon General, or any numerous members of the Department of Health and Human Services in charge of decisions which constitute beneficial healthcare.
Now I will give my opinion in regard to these two ideas: I would prefer to put elected officials, whose jobs I have at least some nominal say over, incharge of the institutions I must put in charge of my health rather than profit hungry, corporate entities, whom I have absolutely no direct input in.
PS - In the last 8 years, it was not liberal special interest hacks who have been spending the 'sin-tax' money collected on 'decadent activities' it was a conservative president who increased government spending to previously unprecedented levels and decided it would be a good idea to, at the same time, lower the amount of money the government was actually taking in.
Big Oil and Big Business, or Big Labor and Big Government. Someone always is getting paid off by politicians and that won't change until you level the playing field and take all special interests out of politics. That, of course, can't happen without the will of politicians, who are themselves ruled by special interests. Complaining about it, inflaming the plebieans, and demonizing a system doens't help to change it, instead only cultivating anger or apathy and disillusionment.
One other comment I had is on the reference to Europe's 'shattered' health care system. Lumping all of Europe, and their approach to Health Care, is an ignorant argument. There are problems and challenges with health care no matter where you go.. In France people pay less in tax towards their healthcare, the government will only cover somewhere between 60-80% of healthcare costs, and the people are free to privately purchase supplemental insurance to cover additional costs. In Britain people are taxed for their healthcare, provided by the government, but may opt out if they prefer to purchase their own insurance. This means that the wealthy are able to see doctors who purchase the newest machines and perform all the newest tests, and can pass the price onto their patients, while middle and lower class, whom are already paying a greater portion of their income on healthcare compared with the wealthy, must see doctors who may be overworked, and have more modest facilities.
Lets not forget the United States, though, here, the government provides only for the poor or elderly (and chlidren in many cases), in a partially privatized system rife with fraud, or people must pay up to fifty percent of their wages to get coverage for healthcare, which often will still not cover the namebrand medications they see ads for on TV and doctors and hospitals get kickbacks for prescribing. That is if they don't simply go without healthcare, and the proper advise on how to stay healthy, pop into the emergency room when their health inevitably (or accidentally) fails them. In the latter cases they can either spend years paying off medical debts (time which they cannot be better participating in the economy as a whole) or they may declare bankruptcy, shunting the costs of their treatment (double what similar treatments costs in Europe and other developed nations) onto hospitals. Those costs, of course, do not get passed onto large insurance companies with huge banks of patients with powerful lobbying strength. Instead they get passed onto smaller insurance companies who simply cannot say, 'We won't send our insurees to your hospital any longer.' Say what you want about having to get on waiting lists to see a doctor, since here in this country multiple studies have been done that show that the uninsured have statistically worse healthcare outcomes than the insured.
Really! It's either big oil and big deficits with the Repulicans or big labor and big taxes with the Democrats! As for your dislike of most democrats, get over it! They're no worse or no better than what we had the prior eight years. Quit complaining and start doing something positive. Either become an Independent or join the Tea Party. For god sakes! Do you know that the conservative base of the Republican party loves and supports Palinista???? When are you going to figure it out. As for your distain for Begich, unlike you and many of your groupies, he actually cares about Alaska and was born and raised her. I can't wait for the oil to be sucked dry. All of it! Then all of you whiners can pack up and leave and go find another state with oil reserves. Really!
Where are you from, anyways??
P.S. I forgot to mention big multi billion dollar wars that most of our taxes pay for!!!
Very. Just look at NJ, Virginia, Mass. Wait until they see the next march on Washington.
Just a big bunch of bribes and lies. Nelson can't even go out to eat in Nebraska.
Kennedy seat? No way. Scott Brown made that clear.
Now it's time to get rid of Harry, Barry, and Scary.
And Alaska needs to get rid of Begich.
I have been told by local politicians that it is not necessary to provide funds to support them. They are obligated to represent the members of the community they were elected in. It was not even necessary to have voted for them.