The features of ObamaCare.

In spite of what Obama says these are the features of the proposed health care.

1. Compulsory. Everyone will have to have health insurance.

2. Eventually, it is a single payer system. If you belong to a private plan, you have five years after which you have to join the single payer (government) plan. If your insurance changes before the five years is up, you have to join the government plan.

3. Health care will be rationed. The Economic Stimulus Bill (what I referred to as the Porkulus bill) set up the Center for Cooperative Effectiveness Research at a cost of 1.1 Billion dollars/yr. It is this Agency that will construct the basic blueprint of what treatments doctors will have to use for what illness. How you will be assigned doctors is not clear now, but doctors will not be permitted to treat you outside of guidelines and you will not be allowed to shop for doctors.

4. Will there be "death panels?" In reality, YES. Local Committees will decide if health care can be given to people. One of the principles identified in ObamaCare is the evaluation of whether the proposed care is cost effective in relation of the economic productivity and age of the patient. Denying care for the aged is in reality a death sentence. So is the denial of care to the mentally ill or intellectually retarded. In fact, it is precisely these panels that delay care in England and Canada, because it takes time to make these decisions. In many cases, even the delay can cause death.

5. Will ObamaCare save money? No. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the cost of this plan as an additional trillion dollars per year.

6. Will Medicare and Medicaid survive? It is hard to see how. The way I see it, everyone over 65 will be forced into the single payer system.

7. How about Congress and the POTUS? The political class will have their own plan.

8. Are Congress and government workers now covered by a government plan? NO. Government workers have private plans that are subsidized by the government as part of their pay.