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Text Box: providers. And, of course, this would be funded by some Nine Hundred Forty-eight Billion Dollars in tax increases and service cuts, in addition to the Six Hundred Thirty-five Billion Dollars in tax increases and service cuts Obama has already announced. If an employer provided health insurance to its employees, even if the employees were required to pay part of the premium, the portion paid by the employer would be taxed to the employee, and not allowed as a cost deduction to the employer. And any individual who did not participate in the government insurance program, would no longer be allowed to deduct any health care costs from income - none at all. Every citizen would be required to obtain health insurance - either from a private insurer, their employer, or from the federal government’s program. An additional Obama proposal would allow tax deductions for employee union associated health insurance program premiums. These factors, combined with a low premium for the proposed government health insurance program because it is subsidized by tax dollars, will coerce individuals to change from commercial insurance to government sponsored health insurance. Simply by using Obama’s own words, it is obvious his plan would reduce the level of health CARE currently received or available to Americans, while increasing the cost every individual pays for health care. Obama says his intention is to provide health INSURANCE to every American. The deception is that while every American may wind up having health INSURANCE under the Obama plan, the level of health CARE will drop drastically, while the COST will dramatically increase. Within this process Obama proposes to standardize and computerize health care records. His stated purpose is to facilitate individual health care. The

Text Box: DECEPTION A SIN AGAINST THE COMMAND TO NOT LIE And often a self-contradiction. Examples as practiced by government from proposed medical care to removal of inspectors tasked with preventing abuse, misuse, and downright theft of government funds and assets (tax payer property). Those who deceive are not trustworthy. HEALTHCARE: America has an health care system which in practical application takes second place to none. While private insurance provided by employers, the insured, a combination of both, or other systems provide varying levels of health coverage, the federal government, through various programs, and many state governments, through their own programs or in conjunction with the federal government, also provide such coverage. The current Medicare and Medicaid programs provide medical care to millions of retired and millions of poor Americans. The benefits include office visits to physicians for consultation and treatment, treatments provided in hospitals, surgery from the most mundane such as removing callouses to the most complex coronary and brain procedures, nursing home care, and medication. Medicare provides a basic level of health coverage which the insured is well advised to bolster with a supplement policy for which the insured pays. Medicaid is a government funded program, and Medicare also is basically a government funded program - meaning both are supported by tax money.

Text Box: There also are well enforced laws which require most hospital emergency rooms to provide medical assistance to those in need without regard to the patient’s ability to pay for the services rendered. Partial reimbursement is provided by some federal funds, with the paying patients being charged more than the cost of their own treatment to make up the difference. While the foregoing is very simplified, it is basically accurate. The reality of these programs is such that virtually every American citizen who is unable to provide for his or her own healthcare usually has basic and often very sophisticated healthcare available to them. President Obama wishes to implement a program or programs which will provide health INSURANCE, or otherwise make such insurance available, to every citizen. But since health CARE already is available, Obama’s stated intention is redundant. What is more amazing is an integral aspect of Obama’s plan. Obama intends to cut Three Hundred Thirteen Billion Dollars ($313,000,000,000.00) from Medicare and from Medicaid, over the next ten years, to assist in funding his program. Very simply, Obama intends to cut two programs which already successfully provide health care to American citizens who are retired or are unable to provide health care for themselves, so that he can provide health insurance to those individuals so that they can obtain health care through health insurance. Perhaps Obama’s proposal is merely stupid. But it will result in millions of individuals who currently receive health care, being deprived of health care. Obama would also cut One Hundred Six Billion Dollars from federal payments to hospitals which provide treatment to uninsured individuals. He also would cut Seventy Five Billion Dollars in Medicare prescription drug payments, as well as One Hundred Ten Billion Dollars in Medicare payments to hospitals and other, similar, healthcare

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