Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
January 8, 2014
Obamacare is a Trojan horse designed to whittle
away the middle class with pernicious taxes. Especially hard hit will be seniors
and Baby Boomers.
Rep. Michele Bachmann: Obamacare is Deathcare for seniors.
The government tried to sell its taxation scheme
folded into Obamacare by saying only tanning salons and so-called “Cadillac”
high-end insurance plans would feel the crunch. As it turns out, many if not
most of the taxes will fall on a middle class reeling from a debilitated
economy.
The taxes will be hidden in levies exacted on
health insurance companies, especially those with large market share. The fees
will be used to compensate insurers who take on the most expensive
policyholders, according to a report posted by Politico. In short, Insurance companies will pass the fees on
to consumers.
Other taxes and fees on hospitals and caregivers
will hit the middle class hard.
“Many of those [hidden] taxes, especially those on
hospitals, insurers and medical device manufacturers, will ultimately be passed
on through higher health costs,” Michael Tanner, an expert on Obamacare, told Money Morning. “According to most experts, Obamacare will
create a total of twenty new taxes or tax hikes on the American people.”
The Obama administration skirted the normal
appropriation process to give the IRS $500 million to beef up its taxation enforcement. According to
the Government Accountability Office, the transfer outside the purview of
Congress and the American people was legal because other government agencies
have set a precedent of violating the Constitution.
“New federal health insurance taxes, both premium
taxes and excise taxes, will also affect older workers and retirees,” writes Alyene Senger. “The higher taxes on prescription drugs
(effective in 2011) and medical devices (effective in 2013) will affect seniors
especially, as they are more heavily dependent on those very products.”
Medial procedures for seniors will be especially
hard hit. Hip and knee replacements and cataract surgery will be extremely
difficult to get from Medicare now that Obamacare has gone into effect,
according to Dr. Betsy McCaughey, a constitutional scholar with a Ph.D. from
Columbia University.
In November, healthcare insurance corporations
began dropping Medicare Advantage patients and doctors. Obamacare cuts Medicare
Advantage funding by $156 billion over ten years and will result in huge premium
increases for hard-pressed seniors. Medicare payment reductions will undercut
hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, and hospice agencies.
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