20 Million Will Lose Health Care Under Obama Law

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Obama's crony capitalist healthcare law which benefits his major HMO donors like United Health (currently under 3 federal and 2 state fraud investigations) will result in 20 million Americans losing health care coverage, World Socialist Web (a website of the International Committee of the Fourth Worker's International [Trotskyist]) reports:

As many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-sponsored coverage in 2019 under the health care legislation signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. This is the worst-case scenario set out by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in a report released Thursday.
The CBO’s most optimistic estimate, which the federal agency says is subject to a “tremendous amount of uncertainty,” is that 3 million to 5 million will lose their employer health coverage each year from 2019 through 2022.

As the CBO report demonstrates, the numbers of those losing their employer-sponsored coverage—whether they are dumped by their employer or can no longer afford it—will rise as a result of the Obama health care overhaul. This tendency will be exacerbated by the continuing rise of overall health care costs, driven in the main by the spiraling profits of the insurance companies and giant health care providers and pharmaceuticals.

http://wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/heal-m17.shtml

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the Answer to 1984 is 1917

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What happened in 1917

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What happened in 1917

A flu virus found a human host, and proceeded to kill 20 to 40 million people in the following years.

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What happened in 1917

You're not serious, are you?

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From Ralph Nader's advocacy group Single Payer Action:

Some things we know.

Some things we don't.

We know Obama's health law mandate robs from the poor and gives to the rich.

It forces all citizens to give money to giant health insurance corporations.

It keeps the insurance companies in the game. That's why Single Payer Action organized 50 medical doctors to resist Obama's mandate – and filed an amicus brief calling on the Supreme Court to strike it down.

Pointing out that Congress had another way -- single payer.

On the day the Supreme Court was hearing the issue, we were in front of the Supreme Court with a banner that read:

Strike Down Obama's Mandate

For a donation of $100 or more to Single Payer Action, we'll send you a hard copy of the historic amicus brief -- written by Single Payer Action’s attorney Oliver Hall and signed onto by the fifty doctors.

http://singlepayeraction.org/