Your taxes and Obamacare

[Destroyer]

Franco, great post
Unfortunately that's an opinion, not facts, written by a blogger (Mr. McCarthy), about his take on the health care bill. Truthfully, since I have not read all 2000 pages of the bill, I cannot, for the most part, say where what he says is truth, fiction, or something in between. I can say with certainty that his last sentences on the tanning booth tax are factual, (since I just read that part of the bill this afternoon).

It's true, everytime you go to a tanning booth you're now going to be charged an additional 10% of the total bill as a "tanning tax" for exposing yourself to the possibilities of getting skin cancer sometime in the future. It's just another new tax hiding under the disguise of "making people pay for their fair share" I wonder what's going to be next.. a users tax when you go to the beach? (Because after all, you get a tan there also...so you should have to pay for exposing yourself to skin cancer there as well) They are going to tax you in ways you haven't even contemplated yet, all under the guises of "protecting you" and "it's for your own good".

But his opinion that over the next decade, the drug companies and medical device makers will need to be taxed to help pay for the extra business they’ll pick up, selling their products to 30 million newly-insured Americans, is nothing short of pure rubbish. (And more than a little confusing). WHY will the drug and device companies need to pay new taxes if they get new customers and HOW will new taxes "help pay" for new customers? What's the matter with the taxes they are already paying? (Oh, don't worry, there will be new taxes all right, since the government wants and needs the billlions of dollars in new revenue). Just remember CORPORATIONS DO NOT PAY TAX!!!!..they simply increase the price of their goods to the consumer by the amount of the additional tax. It is we, the consumers, that pay any new tax on a business. This notion that there will suddenly appear 30 million new customers is complete garbage. It's estimated that only 27 million people are without health insurance in the US right now, and over 60% of them are without insurance willingly. So where are those 30 million people going to come from? That's implying that 30 million people right now do not buy drugs or medical devices. Which of course is complete rubbish. No one in the US is denied health care right now, no one is denied drugs or medical devices BY LAW. So where do they get that 30 million new people figure from? It's smoke and mirrors.

Mr. McCarthy also states that health insurers also stand to gain millions of new customers as a result of reform. Again, that's pure Obama propaganda bullsh_t. Obama has stated in both his books and publicly when he was a Senator that he favors a single provider health care plan.. In other words, he wants the US government to be your health care provider.... and everything he has done so far is working towards the goal of putting all the private insurers out of business.

The health care bill will NOT raise revenues from these companies to the tune of about $67 billion over ten years....in fact it will destroy them. Several companies have already told their employees that they will not be providing them with private health care coverage starting in 2012.. the most notable one being McDonalds. They are moving their employees into the public health care program. As time goes forward, you'll see more and more of that happening as companies seek to avoid the additional taxes that are being placed on them for the private insurance they are providing to their employees. And as that happens, the small private insurance companies will, one by one, go out of business.

My opinion is that Mr. McCarthy's opinions are biased, nonfactual and should be taken with a grain of salt. He's simply touting the far left party line.