Medicare Is A Cash Cow Milked By Obamacare Crooks
I first wrote the following article three years ago. I now offer it to my readers with updated revisions. Obamacare was enacted (2010) just before the oldest Baby Boomers would qualify for Medicare benefits (2011), without one Republican vote. The short term goal was to slice payments in half for Medicare doctors, discouraging younger doctors from becoming Medicare doctors. The long term goal, which was stated by the Obama staff who drafted the legislation, was as an interim step toward full socialized medicine completely controlled by the federal government. Now, while keeping the government shutdown, Democrat “leaders” are whining that Obamacare premiums will increase substantially January 1st. This too, was by design.
HOW TO CREATE A SOCIALIST STATE BY SAUL ALINSKY:
According to Alinsky, there are eight levels of control that must be obtained before the Ruling Elite is able to create a Totalitarian state. Alinsky considered Health Care as the most important so he listed it first in the hierarchy of destroying freedoms and installing complete tyrannical control over the population.
FOLLOWING ALINSKY’S LEAD
Democrat politicians created Obamacare to consolidate the healthcare industry under the control of the Ruling Elite, increase the cost, decrease the access, and decrease the quality, as one step short of socialized medicine. Socialized medicine gives the Deep State complete control over what medical care each person receives and, ultimately who lives & who dies. The federal government was paying for top rate health care for all illegal aliens, while 27,600,000 Americans lacked access to health care in 2022. Why? Because the Biden Regime was using illegals to damage our society and our nation. They WANT Americans to die faster, especially those over age 50 because we understand what total freedom feels like.
By passing and implementing the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare, in March 2010, the Democrats* had a short-term goal and a long-term goal. The short-term goal was to deny Medicare benefits to Baby Boomers, the FIRST generation to pay Medicare taxes our ENTIRE WORKING LIVES. And just in time, as the oldest Baby Boomers started claiming their Medicare benefits in 2011. The law outlawed inexpensive individual health insurance policies, leaving millions of Americans uninsured. The long-term goal was to destroy large parts of the private insurance market, hoping Americans would BEG for Socialized Medicine.
During his sales tour to force Obamacare down our throats, President Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. knowingly lied to Americans 28 times:
“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor; if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. The average American will save $2,500 per year in insurance premiums.”
MEDICARE IS A PYRAMID SCHEME
Medicare was enacted in 1965, when Democrats owned the US House, the US Senate and the White House. My grandparents, born in the 1890s, were immediately eligible for benefits, even though they never paid any Medicare taxes. My parents, already in their 40s, immediately started paying Medicare taxes, but did not receive any Medicare benefits until 1988.
When I got my first job, I immediately started paying Medicare taxes. I PAID & PAID & PAID, and before I became eligible for Medicare benefits the Dems passed Obamacare, slicing Medicare benefits to the bone. Obamacare was funded by stealing 50% of Medicare funds and using them for new entitlement (welfare) programs for people WHO HAVE NOT PAID INTO MEDICARE, including illegal aliens.
PYRAMID SCHEMES WORK GREAT EARLY ON, LATER PARTICIPANTS ARE CHEATED
Pyramid schemes are illegal under Federal Statute because the early “investors” make out like bandits, and later “investors” are cheated big time. My beloved grandparents, bless their hearts, lived to ages 89 & 96, and made out like Medicare bandits. Living to ages 85 & 89, my parents received a handsome return on their modest Medicare investment.
My parents and grandparents relied solely on Medicare for their health insurance because the benefits were sufficient to cover their medical expenses. In contrast, my husband and I have private health insurance to supplement Medicare. Medicare currently pays so poorly and covers significantly less than it did for my parents and grandparents, which makes our insurance premiums very high. And I suspect the generation currently in their late 40s & early 50s will see little or no return for their Medicare taxes.
ALL pyramid schemes are illegal because they CHEAT PEOPLE. Somebody always gets cheated. By their very design pyramid schemes will fail when the scammers run out of OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY.
DEMS SAW BABY BOOMERS AS CASH COWS
Not only was the Baby Boomer cohort the largest generation in US history, we were also the first generation wherein the majority of married women were in the workforce. The Left literally salivated over how they could get their grubby hands on our wages, concocting all kinds of excuses for why this or that new program was needed. Medicare and Medicaid were two such programs that politicians claimed were desperately needed.
This American is a member of the Baby Boom generation, that HUGE cohort of children born after WWII, 1946 to 1964. The Vietnam War notwithstanding,** when Medicare was enacted, politicians and bureaucrats knew that Baby Boomers would be getting old eventually. They knew there would be A WHOLE LOT OF US signing up for Medicare beginning in 2011 and continuing until 2029. THIS WAS NOT A SURPRISE.
So, after sucking Baby Boomers dry throughout our working lives, the bureaucrats and politicians sure did not want to give us the benefits we had worked for. Viola! They created Obamacare. Medicare will be insolvent by 2031, as planned.
ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE IS BEING REDUCED FOR SENIORS
Obamacare was partially funded by stealing $716 BILLION from Medicare during its first 10 years. How much are the bureaucrats stealing THIS decade? The Dems used Medicare as a cash cow to fund Obamacare on the eve of when Medicare began serving the largest number of seniors, that is, Baby Boomers. Currently, 8,000 to 10,000 Baby Boomers are turning age 65 every day.
Cuts in Medicare payments are drastically reducing ACCESS TO CARE for seniors, especially in areas where there is a disproportionate percentage of elderly. Clinics are not getting enough Medicare money to hire the number of doctors needed to care for older patients. Also, payments to hospitals, home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities were significantly reduced under Obamacare. The Biden Regime slashed payment for home health care services beginning in 2023. These facilities had no choice but to close their doors or cut back their services to Medicare patients.
KILLING OFF SENIORS HAS AN ADDED BONUS FOR THE DEEP STATE
Obamacare significantly lowered payments to Medicare doctors. Due to that, and due to the burdensome paperwork required, doctors are taking on fewer and fewer Medicare patients. Indeed, more & more doctors are choosing NOT to become Medicare doctors. In addition, Americans are likely to see fewer medical students entering specialties which have high numbers of elderly patients, such as Internists, Cardiologists & Ophthalmologists. This, at a time when America has its largest numbers of elderly citizens.
Denial of health care for seniors does have an added benefit for the Federal government: The sooner seniors die, the less Social Security benefits will be paid out. Crass? Yes, but factual. And the bureaucrats have already calculated how many will die and how much Social Security money they will “save” for every grandpa who goes to his grave earlier than he should.
Hospital Systems Collapsing: Too Many Illegals
It was just a matter of time, with 15-16 million foreign nationals pouring across both our southern and northern borders, before health care systems started to collapse. The Biden Regime does not reimburse hospitals and doctors for medical care for Biden’s Guests. These patients have never paid insurance premiums, but federal law requires they receive t…
MEDICARE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO FUND OBAMACARE
*All Republicans and a significant number of Democrats voted against Obamacare. Nevertheless, it passed by 50-50 in the US House. I wonder how many who voted “yes” knew Obama’s promises were HUGE lies.
**59,000+ American service men & women, mostly Baby Boomers, were slaughtered in Vietnam. For you history buffs, the president who sent these young people to their deaths was the same president who signed the Medicare/Medicaid Act into law: Lyndon B. Johnson who was my most-hated president until Obama installed demented Biden.
The author, Diane L. Gruber, is a First Amendment advocate who writes for Substack. She calls her Substack newsletter America First Re-Ignited. Follow me on X @DianeLGruber.
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