As of today, there are 45 days until the most
consequential election in American history. This is what they say about
many past elections, but this is really it. For if the Democrats seize power –
control of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate and the Presidency – and doing it by
hook or by crook (the justifies the means, you know) America as we know it will
be forever changed. America envisioned and created by the Founding Fathers will
disappear into the shadows of history.
The ungodly secular-humanists/Marxists slow
march through America’s institutions over the last 100 years or so will have
reached a crescendo – fulfilling Mr. Obama’s fundamental transformation of
America. Never again will the demonic Democratic Party relinquish its grip on
political power and control of the masses.
Envision with me what a Socialist Democratic
Party, takeover, a bloodless coup, a regime change, would look like. This is
one in a series of daily articles leading up to the 2020 General Election
THE Democrats want government run healthcare,
call it ObamaCare, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare-for-all or whatever.
The Republicans want more choices than one managed by a Bureau of Motor
Vehicles like bureaucracy. Death panels are the inevitable end of
government-controlled healthcare system. We will look at some of the basic
tenets of both the Democrats and the Republican health care policies.
Democratic
Party Platform – Health Care
FoxNews.com
commented in an article when the Democrats announced
their 2020 Party platform, “While it’s described as the most progressive
platform in the Democratic Party’s history and pushes the party to left on many
issues including health care reform.”
Forbes.com discussed in an August article
some of the specific items in the Democratic Party Platform related to health
care, these included:
Ø “Giving everyone the
option of choosing a public health insurance option like Medicare.”
Ø “Proposes lowering the
Medicare age from 65 to 60, for those who want to enroll earlier than they can
today. That would benefit early retirees, whether they were laid off or
voluntarily left employment, perhaps to start their own businesses.”
Ø “The lowest-income
Americans would be automatically enrolled in the public option without health
care premiums; they could opt out at any time.”
Ø “For people losing
health insurance coverage due to lost jobs resulting from the pandemic, the
federal government would pick up 100% of the cost of COBRA (the federal law
extending employers’ health insurance for workers who lose it).”
Ø “And there are several
ideas to lower prescription drug costs that Democrats have pushed for years —
including some Trump has supported.”
Ø “Medicare would be free
to negotiate prices with drug companies; makers of Medicare-covered
prescriptions wouldn’t be allowed to raise prices by more than inflation and
consumers could legally buy prescription drugs from other countries.”
Ø “Cap out-of-pocket drug
costs for seniors…”
Ø “Create a
Public Health Jobs Corps to mobilize at least 100,000 people and help identify
those at risk of contracting or spreading infectious diseases.”
President
Trump and the Republican Party
Ø “Oppose
universal healthcare coverage but is expected to continue to try to drive down
healthcare costs by pressuring insurance companies into interstate competition,
international drug makers to stop price gouging in America, and hospitals to
make their prices transparent…” (1)
Ø Getting rid of Obamacare -- “Rolling back the 2010 health care law, an
effort he supported in his first year in office when Republicans pushed it in
Congress. His administration is currently asking the Supreme Court to overturn
the entire law, and he has repeatedly called for repeal of its provisions in
his annual budgets. (2)
Ø Provide consumers with a
wide variety of options based on affordability -- “Trump administration issued regulations that
allow health insurers to avoid consumer protection mandates in the health care
law that require health plans to cover a basic set of benefits. That move has
led to the proliferation of short-term plans that are sometimes cheaper for
people who qualify — mostly those who are young and healthy — but which offer
skimpier coverage.” (2)
Ø Tighten requirements for Medicaid --
“The
president has also consistently backed major cuts to federal health care
programs, including Medicaid. His administration has proposed hundreds of
billions of dollars in reductions in Medicaid and tighter restrictions on who
can get coverage, saying that the benefits currently offered cost taxpayers too
much and discourage people from seeking work.”
Ø Continue to try to reduce cost of medicines
-- “With many of his
initiatives on drug prices still unfulfilled, the president recently directed
his administration to make it easier to import cheaper drugs from other
countries and to limit the rebates that middlemen, known as pharmacy benefit
managers, can receive when they negotiate prices with drug makers on behalf of
health insurers. Those new efforts would not take effect until well after the
election, if then.” (20
Ø Abortion is not health care and pull any health care funding for it. -- “The Trump
administration has strongly backed initiatives to restrict access to abortion,
to block funding for Planned Parenthood and overseas aid groups that counsel
women about abortion and to lift the rules that require health plans to cover
contraceptives for women.” (2)
(1)
https://www.godvoter.org/Republicans/Donald-Trump-platform.html
Medicare and Medicaid Fraud
The Republican Party would be more likely to deal
with Medicare and Medicaid fraud than the Democratic Party. As is true for
almost all aspects of government there is a great deal of waste built in it. Waste and programs that no longer work must be
identified and eliminated.
Insurance
Industry
The Democrats want
government-run healthcare and see no need for insurance companies. The
Republicans would like to see competition and choice expanded and offer
customers more options. The Republicans prefer to see more private sector
involvement and less direct government control.
Pharmaceuticals
The Democrats want
to see medicines under the ultimate manufacture and control of government. That
would stifle innovation. That would eliminate competition. That would regard
new therapies. The Republicans are more supportive of a competitive pharmaceutical
industry allowing the free market to pick winners and losers and not the
government.
Veterans’
Healthcare
President Trump inherited
a mess from the Obama Administration and has worked to improve it. He has
introduced some private providers to serve some of the veterans.
Rationed
Healthcare
Ultimately under any government-run health care
system, which is supported by the Democratic Party. The results will include
death panels, rationed care and like in Canada and other countries with
socialized health care there are extensive wait times for some services. Not
far behind will be more calls for increased abortion and euthanasia of the elderly
and disabled.
The Decision
Do you want government bureaucrats determining
your treatment plan and options? Do you want to wait in line or be denied
services because of age or disability? Then vote for Harris-Biden.
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