Obamacare is not good for the country

Ok sorry folks for forfeiting round 2. I had other things going on and was unavailable. And im sure my opponent WISHES that the rest of this will be me forfeiting....FAT CHANCE. LOL. 1."If you are going to have coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions, you need to make sure that people don't game the system by paying out of pocket until something is seriously wrong and then buying insurance." This is Exactly what is going to happen. If people dont comply(and they wont), then they will be fined and only in serious cases they will be jailed. Well, it just so happens that the fines would be less than the cost to purchase healthcare. And this is an invetablitlity! Premiums will go up because insurance companies are now being forced to cover people despite pre-existing conditions. This is akin to my house being on fire before i purchase home owners insurance. If insurace companies nit pick everything now, they surely will then. And there isnt enough regulation to insure that premiums wont increase. If a man needs a $250,000 heart transplant, but has only made one or two payments, then how would the insurance companies compensate for this? especially if thousands of these ill people are needing to be covered at the same time? They will increase the premiums, thats how. And so because of this, no one will buy insurance until they need an operation, they will take on the penalties gladly and laugh to the operating table. This will inevitably CRUSH the insurance system, making way for a single payer, government type healthcare system. The mandate will not have enough people paying in to the system for it to cover people with pre existing conditions. 2."For employers currently paying for healthcare the premium reductions caused by universality and the decrease in overhead expenses (since insurance companies can't get out of payment as easily) will cause healthcare costs to reduce. So employers that don't provide insurance will have a tougher time, and those that do will have an easier time. Which is precisely the desired behavior, using the tax system to incentivize private action." This law is death by a thousand cuts for small business owners. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the overhaul will cost about $115 billion more than first projected, bringing the total to more than $1 trillion. Small businesses will also now have to deal with an onslaught of new taxes and burdensome paperwork. One of these new taxes is a so-called health insurance fee. It's a massive $8 billion tax (that escalates to $14.3 billion by 2018) on insurance companies based on their market share. This tax will be paid almost exclusively by small businesses and individuals because the law specifically excludes self-insured plans, the plans that most big businesses and labor unions offer, from having to pay the tax. While the health insurance fee was designed to "go after" large health-insurance companies, the reality is that insurers aren't simply going to absorb this new tax; it will be passed on to customers. Specifically, it will be passed on to the plans that 87% of small businesses and individuals buy. A study by the Federal Policy Group published last October found that the amount of taxes passed on to the typical family of four could be $500 or more per year. Adding insult to injury, the law also requires all businesses to issue IRS 1099 forms to document every business-to-business transaction of $600 or more. To someone who's never run a business, this may sound like nothing. But Congress hopes to raise $17 billion in added tax revenues and fees from this new mandate. That's hardly nothing to congress, but the result is detrimental to people, small businesses and the economy. Im not sure how, when looking at the facts anyone can argue that this bill can do anything BUT harm the country. 3."Insurance today is regulated primarily at the state level. The exchanges aren't in any way between states. There is no particular reason this statute would cause the Federal Government to decide it wants to directly regulate insurance contracts. Pro has presented no evidence for this cause and effect." The problems with a FEDERAL exchange is the same ones that massachussetts has(the health care bill was largely modeled after mass. healthcare):From Stateline's Healthbeat: "The Commonwealth Connector, Massachusetts' version of a health insurance exchange, has failed to attract many small business purchasers and individuals who are not eligible for subsidies. That's the assessment of a new report from a nonpartisan, privately funded research group in the state, the Pioneer Institute. Small businesses and individuals who do not qualify for subsidies make up only 1.5 percent of the Connector's membership. And less than 1 percent of small group insurance purchases in the state are made through the exchange, the report found. Although Massachusetts' groundbreaking health care overhaul became the model for the federal health law, the report's author said the Connector needs repairs before it can comply." In other words, the state-run exchange has managed to attract people who qualify for generous insurance subsidies—and almost no one else. You have to wonder: If these sorts of government-run insurance marketplaces are so great, how come the only group of people in the Bay State who seem to be taking advantage of it are those who're getting taxpayer-funded subsidies to do so? 4. The cost First, my opponent missed my point. I know that 43 million people were enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid( about 15%, not 50%)(http://www.kaiseredu.org... ), but that doesnt take away from what i said. Obama claims 95 percent will be covered. 90 percent are currently covered. The ESTIMATED(wrongly) cost is a trillion bucks. so we are spending a trillion bucks to cover 5 percent of the population. My opponent wants proof that we have the best healthcare.(i said we had a healthcare affordability problem, not a healthcare problem). I can show links, but first i want my opponent, and anyone else who reads this to use their head. Think really really really hard. Now name for me an award winning hospital(dont google it) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES!!! i can name several that are here: Harvard medical, UCLA, The Mayo clinic, Johns hopkins, Duke University. I can go on and on.When people in other countries need THE BEST care (as opposed to acceptable care, because its cheap), they come to the United states. We have the best medical schools, the best specialists. We may not be the best in preventative medicine, (we are working on it) but when it comes to Cancer research and survival rates, we are first, when it comes to heart surgeries and transplant and care, we are first.Every serious illness the united states is on the cutting edge. Our FDA approves Chronic care medicine for the public faster than any other industrialized nation. And when it comes to medical technology, the United States is the leader in that field. 5. NEW REASON OBAMACARE IS NOT GOOD... The number : 47 million people without insurance is a blown up number..its false. and misleading. Everyone has access to health care. They may not have health insurance, but the law mandates everyone who shows up at emergency rooms must be treated, insurance or not.Census figures also show that 18.3 mn of the uninsured were under 34 who may simply not think about the need for insurance. that puts the number at 29 million.Many may be able to afford health insurance, but for whatever reason choose to not buy it. In 2007, an estimated 17.6 mn of the uninsured made more than $50,000 per year, and 10 mn of those made more than $75,000 a year. now were down to12 million. An unbiased panel commision by the CBO estimates that only 8 million are truely uninsured because they cant afford or dont have the means to acquire health insurance.