{"id":674940,"date":"2010-02-24T14:22:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T19:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002533"},"modified":"2010-02-24T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T19:23:31","slug":"am-i-going-to-be-required-to-get-government-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/674940","title":{"rendered":"Am I Going To Be Required To Get Government Health Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/big-brother-insurance-thumb-300x218-37399.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Every time the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/obama-wants-to-include-coverage-for-31-million-uninsured-people-in-health-care-plan.html\">national health care comes up<\/a>, the prophets of doom put on their black cloaks and start their chants of &#8220;Big Brother,&#8221; &#8220;socialism&#8221; and &#8220;move to Finland,&#8221; painting a picture of a bleak, Orwellian future where baritone-voiced Death Panels decide your fate on a punch card that then gets sent through a pneumatic tube to the waiting Euthanasia Agent. But our smarter, better-looking kin over at Consumer Reports claim it&#8217;s not all that bleak.<\/p>\n<p>They point out that none of the proposed plans create any new government programs, meaning you&#8217;ll get your health coverage from exactly the same sources they do today.  <\/p>\n<p>All that&#8217;s being proposed is a &#8220;mixture of new public and private financing to help make private coverage affordable to the tens of millions who can&#8217;t pay for it today, and introduce important new consumer protections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the government would provide new tax credits to help middle and lower income families purchase private insurance if they don&#8217;t have access to coverage from their employers.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you are tempted to point to this as a government takeover of health care, be careful! You should know that employer provided coverage&#8212;the type of coverage most of us have&#8212;already enjoys a large government subsidy in the form of being excluded from taxable income.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In summation, Consumer Reports believes that the National Health Care Plan is merely an expansion of a system that is already in place that will open the door to adequate medical care for millions of currently uninsured and under-insured people.<\/p>\n<p>Does that still sound as terrifying to you?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.consumerreports.org\/health\/2010\/02\/will-the-government-take-over-my-health-care.html?EXTKEY=I91CONL&#038;CMP=OTC-ConsumeristRSS\" >Will the government take over my health care?<\/a> [Consumer Reports]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time the topic of national health care comes up, the prophets of doom put on their black cloaks and start their chants of &#8220;Big Brother,&#8221; &#8220;socialism&#8221; and &#8220;move to Finland,&#8221; painting a picture of a bleak, Orwellian future where baritone-voiced Death Panels decide your fate on a punch card that then gets sent through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PA8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}