Obama's Health Care Plan

Okay, let's get down to it. Obama has been touting his health care plan for a while now. The gist of it is:

"to expand government provided health care and create a form of “managed competition” originally developed by Alain Einthoven. Obama supports expanding SCHIP and Medicaid eligibility. Although Obama does not support a health insurance mandate for adults, he does support a mandate for children and young adults (any one 25 or under). Obama’s goal to increase health care access, he would support a “pay-or-play” mandate. All but the smallest employers would be required to provide health insurance; those who didn’t would be compelled to pay into a national fund covering these uninsured workers. The mandate would likely require a minimum benefits package. Overall, Obama is pushing towards more government provided health care and more regulation" (1).

What does this mean? Government will take the reins of health care. If you are 25 you MUST have health care or else you will be fined, which by the way, is completely unconstitutional. When did we lose our constitutional right to be left alone- as long as we are not causing harm to ourselves or others?

All medium-large businesses would be REQUIRED to provide health insurance OR pay into a fund to cover uninsured workers. Either way, these businesses will have to now divest profits into health care. One wonders then, what will happen to workers? If companies HAVE to spend more money on health care, less money MUST be spent elsewhere. This leaves 2 legitimate choices for companies: cut worker pay OR fire employees in order to compensate for the increased expenditure. Unemployment then goes up, leaving these newly unemployed people without insurance, right? So tell me how is this a good thing?

Also, quality control would be a big part of his plan. He wants to make sure we all receive quality health care. The government and health care companies would have to hire people to ensure everything is going well. Who pays for them? That's right, we do. Also, government is getting bigger- more employees will be needed for this.... ah the expansion of government bureaucracy!

Tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I don't want government spending my money. They are easily the worst spenders in our nation, and I don't want them to control more things than is truly necessary... and health care is definitely not necessary.

(1) Healthcare Economist http://healthcare-economist.com/2008/08/18/obama-vs-mccain-health-care-policies/