Health Care Reform - A Fraud!

CONGRESS IS COMMITTING FRAUD! Read below to understand how.

How can Congress pass health care reform when no one knows exactly what the plan is? Really folks, most of Congress has not read the legislation or even a detailed explanation of the legislation written in standard English. And there have been through many variations and rewrites. There is a House plan. The Senate is working a different one. The White House has not helped to explain any of this.

Basically, the people are in the dark concerning health care. YET THIS SO-CALLED REFORM WILL AFFECT ALL OF US EITHER BY RAISING COSTS OR RESTRICTING CARE!

Another problem is that the reform plan will be subject to interpretation by the courts. Since the bills run 2000 pages, there is a lot of language that is open to challenge and therefore court interpretation. So when the Congress or President says that non citizens will not be covered or subsidized, do we really know that? Don't bet on it. That's just one aspect. Who knows what possibilities exist for mischief. I would not foreclose the notion that some in Congress have put some hidden bombs in the plan that will lead to complete federal control of health care.

Yet another problem is that you and I will begin paying for this reform starting when the legislation becomes law, but the actual plan doesn't start for several years. What does that mean? It means that the reform does not break even. Honest budgeting (and I bet that I have more years of experience managing major budgets than anyone in Congress) requires that you MATCH income with expenditures, year by year.

Let's explore the budget with a hypothetical that is similar to what Congress is doing. I am simplifying this analysis mostly because neither I or anyone else can know what Congress has kept secret. Assume the following based on the news we have.

1. This is a 10 year program.
2. The program is $800 billion.
3. The services start in 3 years, so they are in effect for 7 years.
4. Payment for the services (taxes and Medicare cuts) starts immediately; that is, cuts and taxes are in effect for 10 years.
5. The program breaks even over the first 10 years.

What is the math?

1. We need $800 billion of income over 10 years. It starts immediately with passage. Assuming that it is spread equally of over 10 years, that's $80 billion per year on average.
2. We will spend $800 billion over 7 years. That's approximately $114 billion per year on average.

So we have a program that costs annually (on average) $114 billion but have only $80 billion to pay for it. It does not pay for itself! The only reason the proponents can say it does is because they are fudging the numbers, counting 10 years of income (cuts and taxes) but only 7 years of costs.

THAT IS FRAUD!

How can Congress and the President change all of our lives but not inform us before doing so? Inconscionable!