Letter to the Editor: What's Wrong with Free... by CCTA Member, Lou Call

July 11th 2012

The Sun Journal:  http://www.newbernsj.com/

Letter to the Editor

‘WHAT'S WRONG WITH FREE……’

So begins an on-line comment from Jerry Scott to my letter ‘Take another look’….

Jerry Scott wrote: WHAT'S WRONG WITH FREE MAMMOGRAMS FOR WOMEN THAT CAN'T AFFORD THEM? NO CAP OF AMOUNTS YOU CAN RECEIVE IN BENEFITS. LOWERS MEDICARE COSTS. COMPANIES CAN'T CANCEL YOUR INSURANCE. LETS YOUNG ADULTS STAY ON PARENTS PLAN TILL 26....AND SO ON,

Well Mr. Scott, you have fallen in line with so many others by looking at the ‘front side’ of Obamacare and stopped looking further. The fact is Mr. Scott that Obamacare is front loaded to make it palatable to those that follow blindly in Obama’s wake. (Unfortunately you are not alone).

A report from the Ways and Means committee examined the details of the IRS’s new powers and how this federal bureaucracy will scrutinize and exercise its enhanced authority over Americans. Key findings include:

IRS agents verify if you have “acceptable” health care coverage;

IRS has the authority to fine you up to $2,250 or 2 percent of your income (whichever is greater) for failure to prove that you have purchased “minimum essential coverage”;

IRS can confiscate your tax refund;


IRS will need up to $10 billion to administer the new health care program this decade;


IRS may need to hire as many as 16,500 additional auditors, agents and other employees to investigate and collect billions in new taxes from Americans; and
nearly half of all these new individual mandate taxes will be paid by Americans earning less than 300 percent of poverty ($66,150 for a family of four).

This part of Obamacare will go into effect in 2014 and does ‘nothing’ to improve the quality of health care.

Thankfully the Congress has voted and repealed Obamacare by a vote of 244 to 185. Two North Carolina Democratic congressmen, Mike McIntyre, District 7and Larry Kissell, District 8 voted with Republicans. It now moves to the Senate where it will never be brought to the floor for a vote, much less for discussion.

Harry Reid in the Senate will turn a deaf ear to the wishes of the majority of Americans and even if the Senate did pass the repeal, Obama would veto it. After all, as dictator, he has that power, which should give all Americans pause for thought.

As for Obamacare there are some good points but missing is tort reform and the purchasing of health insurance across State lines; both of which Republicans support.

A TAX on employers and employees who fail to provide or purchase health insurance and an eventual reduction to Medicare by $589. Billion dollars.

We will have a chance in November to remove from office the most totalitarian president that has ever occupied the White House. The very health and freedom of this great Nation depends on you; please look, read and research before you step into the voting booth. The future freedoms of our grand children rest in your hands; choose wisely.

Louis Call
New Bern, NC