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Today we're looking at how the health care reform bill that has just been passed in America will affect your survival.
Even if it might be good for some people, the health care reform bill - over 2000 pages of it - looks more like a band aid for the US economy than anything else. And it has certainly resulted in some polarized opinions.
Says one person in favor: "I’m glad this health care bill passed. As a small business owner, over 50, with a 'pre-existing condition', the vultures who run the private, for-profit insurance companies won’t touch someone like me."
An opposite point of view, by a correspondent for the UK Telegraph: "The passage last night of Barack Obama’s health care reform bill through the House of Representatives is yet another blow to freedom in America inflicted by the Obama administration.
"The legislation, which comes at a staggering cost of 940 B, will hugely add to the already towering national debt, now at over 12 T. It is yet another millstone round the necks of the American people, already faced with the highest levels of unemployment in a generation."
Another: "There would be nothing wrong with private health insurance provided it performed when needed most, but it doesn’t. The insurance companies are like the banks, they lend you an umbrella when the sun is shining and take it back when it starts raining."
Further:- "Did you know that Obamacare will require that you have insurance, and that the IRS will be in charge of auditing you every month as to whether you have insurance or not? If you don't have insurance, a 2,500 a year penalty will be deducted from your income tax return. And that the IRS could place a tax lien on your property."
Mike Adams, Editor of Natural News, calls it "Health care dictatorship: A crime against America."
He says "This is the medical equivalent of a wartime draft that forces soldiers into battle against their will. Except this isn't a war against some foreign enemy -- it's a war being waged against your body by the pharmaceutical industry, the cancer industry, the surgery pushers and all the corporations that prey upon the public for their sick-care profits."
Also opposed: "If this bill goes into effect - the government will have taken control over 48% of our economy in just one year. Auto makers, banks, corporations, schools, the media, and the healthcare industry. Did you know that the healthcare industry constitutes 30% of our economy? Next on Obama's agenda is taking over the energy industry, thus increasing government control to the tune of 56%. "
"The die is cast: Once-great American private insurance companies are to take their place as massive public utilities -- a new political football for generations of future Congresses to tinker with, manipulate, and exploit. Heaven help us all."
Bellinger is predicting that Americans will now take overseas trips to get their health care work done elsewhere.
And The Heritage Foundation reacted with "Instead of empowering families and individuals to make their own choices, Obamacare empowers the bureaucracy to make those decisions for them. It is this unelected bureaucracy, unanswerable to the electorate, that will determine the content of health benefits packages, including medical treatment and procedures, and how much will be paid for those services.
"Much of the fight against this bill will be led by the individual states, a process we encourage. All told, 33 states have already taken steps to challenge various aspects of Obamacare, including its unprecedented mandate that every American purchase health insurance or face a steep penalty for noncompliance. Four additional States will have this question on the ballot in November."
One says: "I believe overall that the Healthcare Bill is very bad - bad, because the government will now tell us where, how much, when, etc., to get health care. And, according to independent reports, it does not bode well for seniors."
And another says: ""the greatest day in the history of the USA..................a government that realizes that its people come first and not the profits of some rich CEO of a health care company..............."
What we're pointing out, as a timely reminder, is that health care, in whatever form, is not divorced from the true state of the US - and world - economy.
Consider this headline: Many of “Soros Traders” Are Trying to Break the Bank of England Once Again."
That's Sean Hyman writing an article for "FX University" in which he says "As you may know, the now legendary trader George Soros made a name for himself with a single currency trade back in 1992.
Understand
too that because we are also gold
and silver coin dealers, we at The Survival Center have been
following these issues for many years. We're by no means financial
advisers - but we do know what's going on.
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