Obamacare can still be rolled back in 2013, as the recent vote in the Senate to repeal the medical device tax demonstrates. The Affordable Care Act does not make health care more affordable to anyone. This law was passed over the objections of a majority of Americans, and as its rules, restrictions, taxes and penalties go into effect, more fair-weather supporters are discovering that they are among the millions getting shafted by it. Citizens must continue to put pressure on their elected representatives in the House, the Senate and the state mansions, not to give in but to continue rolling back the most damaging aspects of the plan, brick by brick. This book and the companion website www.HHCapitalism.com explains how (fraudulently) we got into this mess, how Obamacare is destroying more than it is solving, why it can never fulfill its promises, and what we need to do instead. Every citizen who pays taxes, premiums and/or penalties needs this information, so that he and she can participate fully in our American civil democracy and discuss these issues in an informed manner with their families, friends and neighbors.
Between 2002-11 I served as a member of the Los Angeles County Medical Association Board of Directors. I was termed off that board after the nine year maximum in 2011 and no longer serve on it and of course do not speak for it then or now. However, I also served in 2009-10 on its sub-committee to review and report back to the board on all the ObamaCare bills. So, with that committee, I read and studied them all. The sub-committee was balanced and bipartisan, and after detailed study of the bill that finally passed in March, 2010, it unanimously advised the full board to oppose the passage of this unnecessary, destructive and unworkable piece of terrible legislation. Our advise was overwhelmingly adopted by the full board which publicly opposed passage of this law.
Since then I have read thousands of pages of commentary on ObamaCare and done dozens of public presentation on it , but this small booklet can be read in an hour or two and is the best, clearest, easiest reading, most accurate distillation of the law I have so far encountered. It should be read by every American who wants to prevent American health care from the drastic deterioration to which ObamaCare dooms us if not repealed. Kudos to Howard Hyde for a job very well done. Now he needs to write a book on the real market solutions to our health care problems.
Thomas W. LaGrelius, MD, FAAFP http://www.skyparkpfc.com
Seriously, this is all the information anyone could possibly need to know in summary form. It explains the deceptions but also tells why socialized medicine not only doesn't 'work' but is very harmful to everyone involved in it. I would highly recommend this book to everyone who cares about this issue.
I should have read the "About the author" before reading the "pamphlet" which was really just an uninformed, vague statistic-driven opinion. I don't know anything about Obamacare, and was looking to become informed about it, not looking to read some random person's personal opinion about something they don't even factually know about! I was led to this "pamphlet" as a purchase suggestion from the amazon.com page of a book written by a woman who is one of the only known people to have actually READ the Obamacare stipulations in their entirety! Wish I would have bought that instead. :/
This book was somewhat helpful. More uglies are still to come out of the closet on O'care. This book may help you to decide whether you will be better off in the long run or not. Don't wait too long to form an opinion. You may lose your chance to be heard as the O'care plan is relentlessly moving forward.