Remember Obama’s promise of Hope & Change back in 2008? And instead of focusing on jobs and the economy, Obama and the Democrats pushed through Obama-Care. Â Now it’s 2013 and Obama-Care about to kick in.Â
We the People don’t want Obama-Care. It’s just as unpopular  now as when it became a law passed by Congress with 0 bipartisan support from Independents or  Republicans. Two-thirds of Americans are worried and concerned how Obama-Care will affect them.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/09/17/another-poll-nope-obamacares-popularity-still-not-improving/
If  you are someone who dislikes Obama-Care,  do what you can do. Doing nothing is a form of support which  pleases those who created Obama-Care.
If you have not  yet done so,  exercise your free speech and right to assemble and petition your government.  Here’s how:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Pick up the phone and call your representatives.  Send  a  Twitter, Speak out on Face Book. Talk to your neighbors. Open your Contacts and send a group e-mail.  Just don’t be part of those millions wh just o let things happen.
Do what you can do even if seems hopeless, i.e.,  if  you live in a Democrat controlled district and happen to be Independent or a Republican.
For example,  I live in a  Democrat controlled  California  district where our “representative”  Sam Farr votes the Democrat party line 9 out of 10 times. Check out Sam Farr’s  stats. 93% of the time Sam Farr  votes in lock step with the Democrat Party. To see Sam Farr’s voting record:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/F000030
What are Independents and Republicans to do? We are stuck between a rock and a hard spot. The Democrat Party, President Obama and Socialist/Democrat  Sam Farr  support Obama-Care as they  rightfully understand that Obama-Care will cave in and then, after some piecemeal attempts to fix it, the U.S.  will become a single payer medical system. Single payer was and is what President Obama and the Democrat Party seek.
Obama-Care puts millions more people into the current Medicare system.  Let’s look at how this plays out where I live, in Santa Cruz County,  California: Getting a Santa Cruz area physician  who takes Medicare is currently quite difficult.  Not impossible but very difficult. The shortage of MD’s  willing to take Medicare  will only get astronomically worse.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323971204578626151017241898.html
There are already some medical  specialties wherein  Santa Cruz area MD’s  take no Medicare patients.  Child psychiatry is one area. If you want a child psychiatrist and only have Medicare you must go out of  Santa Cruz county. Developmentally delayed adults is another group of people  which  cannot find Santa Cruz area psychiatrists willing to take Medicare.
How has socialist/ Democrat  congressman Sam Farr helped our Santa Cruz County  area physicians? Not at all.
Many years ago,  Santa Cruz County was classified as  a “rural” district. Doctors  in ‘rural†districts get paid substantially less  for Medicare patients than doctors providing services  in “urban†areas such as Campbell, Saratoga and San Jose,
California. Sam Farr has represented Santa Cruz County for over 20 years. Yet, Sam Farr has never gotten the “rural†classification  for Santa Cruz  changed to “urbanâ€.  Thus,  our  Santa Cruz, CA  doctors continue being paid substantially less than doctors 20 miles away over the hill. The local Santa Cruz Sentinel had a recent headline concering  the price of housing in Santa Cruz County. The area is one of the most expensive to live in:
For those out there concerned that medical doctors (and psychologists)  be paid decently for Medicare patients, remember Sam Farr’s failure  to change the classification of Santa Cruz County from rural to urban. Simply put, Sam Farr is  ineffective.  Voters should remember that in 2014. So when you call your representative, send a Twitter or get on FaceBook ….
Tell your representatives, neighbors and friends  that what’s good enough for Congress  is good enough for We the People.   Our congressional leaders opted out of Obama-Care. Why? Too expensive they said. And we likewise we should say, Obama-Care is too expensive! If  congress will  not  get in the boat, we should not either.
Another reason to de-fund and repeal Obama-Care:   Under Obama-Care,  younger  workers pay heavily to subsidize the old and sick.  And unfortunately, what the young are subsidizing with Obama-Care s is a sick system with doctors paid less and less and medical decisions increasingly made by administrators — by  the death squads as some have aptly described them. Pour millions more into the same system with the same number of physicians and what happens? Someone, some entity,  has to ration the medical services that are provided. So, now everyone gets worse medical care that before.
A third reason to de-fund and repeal Obama-Care:   Thanks to President Obama’s  recent ad hoc decision, there is no income verification. So anyone can say anything and sign up for Obama-Care.   Down the road, it will be on the government’s shoulders to get the money back. Perhaps this is why Obama-Care has 18,000  IRS jobs built in  –to oversee tax compliance in the long run. What people say as to their projected 2014 income is has enormous consequences determining  the government subsidy that  they receive.  For example, the difference of only $3,000 in projected 2014 income changes the government subsidy from a mere $50 to $600 or so.   So which figure is a person likely to tell the government?
Think of the Big Picture: Currently, medical decisions are made between you and the physician you selected. Under Obama-Care, administrators will made the most  important medical decisions. Doctors and hospitals will be out of the loop.
President Obama has opened the flood gates so that  younger workers will  sign up. Obama has let businesses off the hook for implementation before the next election. Congress is off the hook.
 Is this the Hope and Change that you wanted in 2008? In 2012? Now in 2013? The American public likes having their adult children able to be on their parent’s policy until age 26. The public wants prior medical conditions covered.  Fine.  There are other ways to do so without implementing Obama-Care.
It’s time to put the skids on Obama’s Hope & Change via Obama-Care. Â What say you?Â
http://pages.townhall.com/campaign/th-overturn-obamacare
Cameron Jackson  DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
