Prescription for Disaster: In-Depth Look at Obama's Health Care Plan

Here is how the Obama Administration views health care. A complex chart that shows more regulations that will affect the access and the high quality we already receive. According to the Cato Institute, the President’s plan must rest upon four distinct pillars.

1. Mandates for employers and individuals
2. Subsidies for the middle class
3. Increased insurance regulation
4. A government-run health care plan, like Medicare, that will compete with private insurance.

(You can read more here).

This means that employers would be required to provide health insurance or pay a penalty tax to the government. If a small business can not afford to pay for health insurance for two other employees, then the government would assess a tax on the business owner, which will cause for a detrimental impact for this business, possibly driving them out of business. This coverage will be universal, as most Americans would be forced to take the government approved health insurance. Even worse, the government would be managing electronic medical records, which would be intrusive on each individual’s privacy. It is not the business of the government to monitor your medical records, as the physician and patient have the exclusive rights to these records to help determine the right quality of care, treatments, etc.

So, why should we trust Obama’s solution to health care? After all, many Americans have come to see through his mistake laden stimulus plan, which has led our country into a $23 trillion deficit. Health care coverage should not be touched by the government, and after all, there will be great difficulty getting this bill passed due to public dissent. Right now, this health care plan will place more of a threat on employers (especially small businesses) and individual liberties by exposing our medical histories to the government (something that belongs exclusively to the patient and physician).