The Obama Care bill should NOT have been passed

To touch upon some of the points my opponent listed: 1a) Elected officials voting along political lines is something that often happens, I agree. This bill, on the other hand, had many closed door meetings and in turn, includes specific political deals. This plan exempts unions from paying the Obama care taxes the rest of the people must pay. (http://content.usatoday.com...) 2) This bill does not cover people who choose to not pay a private insurance company money for their services. Why is this a problem and why must these people be penalized under the Obama care law, enforced by the ever rowing IRS. (http://www.cnsnews.com...) 3) The government now has taken over the student loan industry. While they have been about 20% of the market in the past, they will now be in control of 80% of these loans. There will also be increased regulations on the remaining private lenders and could lower their 20% of the market. (http://online.wsj.com...) Once the government has a monopoly over student loans, it is unclear exactly how they will exercise their power and control over the industry. This bill also controls the rationing of health care to patients, particularly the elderly. Obama has admitted that he wants the government to decide what health care Americans receive. (http://www.washingtontimes.com...) 4) This bill will cause an increase in patients for the fixed number of doctors we have at the moment. The government is cutting Medicare and Medicaid (http://sweetness-light.com...) which will result in cutting payments to doctors. This bill will also dictate which treatments a patient can receive rather than the treatment by which the doctor says the patient needs. 5) My opponent recognizes the unfortunate special deals this bill includes and says "Certainly this bill provides many special exceptions." He then continues by saying, "However, it is a good starting place." But I would like to remind my opponent that this is not a starting place, it is the ending place. A starting place would have been to let patents shop across state lines or to increase those Medicare and Medicaid cover, etc. This is a bill which will cost hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars to drastically change the health care industry. (http://www.washingtontimes.com...) As my opponent claims, this bill was a work in progress for a long time and not rushed though. I would hope (but don't personally feel) that they would only pass a large piece of legislation once they were ready and confident it would work, not just an expensive starting point. 6) This bill forces everyone in America to pay money to a private industry (the first time in our nations history this has ever happened) unless they want the IRS to issue them a penalty (http://dailycaller.com...). It will also put forth regulations on what insurance companies can and cannot cover. Further, it dictates which treatments a patient can receive, particularly later in the life (http://nrlc.org...). This is not a minor regulation put in place over a few insurance companies, this is a major issues. It dictates what insurance companies can cover and therefore dictates the treatments which doctors will provide their patients. This is what would be considered a massive takeover of the health care industry. ----- There are numerous problems with the Obama care bill. My opponent has pointed out, and I agree, that this "is a good starting place". But this is something that still needs to be debated and problems need to be ironed out. This plan exempts unions from special health care taxes as well as congress (http://www.humanevents.com...) (http://www.humanevents.com...) The bill includes a takeover of a totally unrelated student loan industry and conveniently leaves out the 'doctor fix' which is totally related to health care (http://www.foxnews.com...). This bill has been reviewed by the HHS and numerous flaws were found. The neutral HSS experts reports that this bill will cost more money than Obama projected, and possibly jeopardize access to care for seniors. (http://www.cnsnews.com...) After a trillion dollars are spent, costs and premiums will still rise for the American people. These are just some of the problems with this bill and again, it is a starting place, not something which should have been voted Yes to at this point.