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The last book you'll ever need on understanding ObamaCare, August 30, 2010
Best book out there on what is wrong with ObamaCare and why it has to be repealed. Every politician should read this - every TEA party member, Republican, Conservative, Libertarian,...anyone right of center or fiscally conservative should memorize the data in this book! I have been highlighting and writing notes in the margins on every page just to make certain I remember all the facts that Ms. Pipes lays out.
Easy to read, easy to understand, and above all - easy to retell to those people convinced that government is the answer to every problem. Excellent price too - buy a few, and hand them out.
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98 of 113 people found the following review helpful:
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Read and share and then take action to repeal this monstrous and wrongheaded law., August 19, 2010
Sally Pipes understands exactly what ObamaCare has in store for us and explains it clearly and powerfully in this important and very affordable book. Be sure to get a copy for yourself and another copy or two to give to your friends who will be willing to read it and take action to help us neutralize and repeal this unconstitutional monstrosity.
She knows what is coming because she lived with the Canadian version and fled it to come to America. Pipes runs the Pacific Research Institute to help Americans understand why personal responsibility and freedom go hand in hand and how government programs restrict our liberties.
This book is only 275 pages long, has 23 short but compelling chapters and hits hard on the key things you need to know about ObamaCare, why we need to repeal it, and what we can do to reform our healthcare system without handing our lives over to government bureaucrats.
The first few chapters show us what is coming, how the mess began, and what the legislative history of healthcare has been and how ObamaCare came to be. Pay attention to her discussions on mandates, the fact that government care gives us the minimum care at the maximum cost (but enriches bureaucrats), and will require every MORE taxpayer funding rather than less. We will have fewer choices and will experience rationing sooner rather than later. You know, those death panels that ObamaCare supporters mocked.
She demonstrates why ObamaCare will not only restrict what treatments you can have, but will crush development of new and innovative drugs and treatments because they would raise healthcare costs if they were ever allowed to be offered. Another problem is that drug and treatment developers could never recoup there costs.
And anyone who is now a senior or hoping to live long enough to become one will want to read the chapter on how seniors are going to have their treatments cut to help fund other parts of the healthcare system. Not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your, probably shorter, lives.
She then tackles the truth about costs, the way the system is designed to cut into the profits that are the lifeblood of any industry, so that insurance companies and healthcare providers will be put out of business. And the lack of competition or alternatives to government plans mean that you will continue to pay more and more. You will see why the demand for doctors will explode, why fewer of the truly talented will want to become doctors and how the government will have to fill the gap with people with the same titles as before, but with much less skill and ability. The chapter on what ObamaCare will look like in 2050 (if we don't successfully repeal it) is truly chilling. And my life experience tells me that this nightmare is not really a picture of how bad it will be. It will be worse.
Instead, we need to repeal this very bad law, engage in real reform that includes portability, the opportunity to purchase our own healthcare at group rates apart form our job, make better health care savings accounts available to everyone, lawsuit reform in every state, allow doctors to deduct their charitable care from their taxes, reform medicare to make it much less dependent on bureaucrats, and provide health care vouchers to the needy.
Good stuff. Please read it and share it with everyone you know.
Oh, and for those of you who still believe the nonsense about the British National Health Service, please read this, too:
Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work
Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Saline, MI
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