OBaa Baa Sheep People

I'll never understand the Obama sheep. The primary problem with the healthcare system according to Obama is the rising cost of healthcare insurance both to Americans and their employers. OK. So he passed this "revolutionary" healthcare bill. Now what? Healthcare will not be cheaper for individuals OR for employers. There's absolutely nothing in this bill that forces insurance companies to lower or cap their rates. But now, it's law that you have to buy this expensive insurance. Give the man a pat on the back. He's smarter than we think. He just bent over America and told us all to grab our ankles - and half the mindless sheep are applauding him for it. How smooth is that? I mean, he could've at least bought me dinner first.

The only winners in this new healthcare bill are the insurance companies. They made two very small sacrifices (eliminating re-existing conditions and lifetime caps), and in return we hand-delivered some 26-30 million new customers. Not only that, but they now get to influence and control your end-of-life care decisions. (As if that tidbit is not insulting enough to the elderly in our country, he canceled some of the healthcare benefits they are currently receiving in order to pay for it. ) Your insurance company and the government get to decide when you should stop fighting to live.

Does this healthcare plan "save jobs" as he has also claimed? I can't see how. He failed to do anything to control the cost of insurance premiums. He's planning to levy an insurance "luxury tax" on any employers who offer you a better plan that what the government outlines as acceptable, which means that employers who decide to provide their employees with the benefit of better insurance will pay a 6% payroll tax penalty. It means some employers will actually be forced to downsize staff to get themselves under the small business cap that will exempt them from providing insurance to all of their employees.

It is true that a few people will benefit from this change. But that vast majority will not. Since when did this country become about sacrificing the good of many to advance a few?

If you don't feel violated and let down enough, just brace yourself. Key democrats are already speaking out about making amendments to this bill so that it will include coverage to illegal immigrants - something that over 70% Americans have repeatedly and loudly voiced that opposition to. Apparently, the voice of the people no longer matters. The ONLY acceptable amendment to me right now is for the Congress to pass an amendment that eliminates the exemptions that were handed out to unions and government employees - including themselves. The outrageousness of those exemptions is one thing that ALL Americans seem to agree on (except for those who were gifted exemption of course).

I wonder how much fleecing Obaabaa's sheep-followers are going to endure before they take off their rose-colored glasses and start seeing real life...