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Soaring costs, assaults on privacy, and a nanny state gone wild<\/p>\n
Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong> 1)\u00a0Research by the Manhattan Institute<\/a>\u00a0documents how average insurance rate premiums will rise 99 per cent for men and 62 per cent for women under Obamacare. In states like North Carolina, men face a whopping 305 per cent average rate hike, whereas women in Nebraska will be paying on average 237 per cent more.\u00a0Studies by the Congressional Budget Office<\/a>\u00a0found that some Americans will face premium increases of 203% under Obamacare. The new law will\u00a0increase health care spending by over $7000<\/a>\u00a0for a typical family of four.\u00a0When we asked Americans\u00a0<\/a>on Facebook and Twitter if their costs would be higher or lower under Obamacare, virtually all said they would be paying significantly more.Obamacare is a big government boondoggle that will empower the nanny state to extort, intimidate, harass and surveil Americans like never before. Here are ten ways in which the Obamacare train wreck is screwing the American people.<\/p>\n 2) The Obama administration claims that federal subsidies will counteract these rate hikes, but according to health care expert Avik Roy that\u2019s simply not true. \u201cYou hear all these excuses from the [Obama] administration \u2013 that people are exaggerating the effect of the law,\u201d\u00a0Roy told CBS News<\/a>. \u201cBut real people are getting notices from their insurers now. My blog is flooded with comments from people saying that they just got a huge premium hike,\u201d<\/p>\n 3) The Obama administration lied to the American people when it claimed that existing health insurance plans could be kept. Obama\u2019s promise that, \u201cIf you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what,\u201d was complete baloney.\u00a0Americans across the country are being informed<\/a> that their existing health care plans are being canceled because of \u201cchanges from health care reform (also called the Affordable Care Act or ACA).\u201d \u201cThe promise that you could keep your old policy, if you liked it, has proved illusory,\u00a0writes Kathy Kristof<\/a>. \u201cMy insurer, Kaiser Permanente, informed me in a glossy booklet that \u201cAt midnight on December 31, we will discontinue your current plan because it will not meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act.\u201d My premium, the letter added, would go from $209 a month to $348, a 66.5 percent increase that will cost $1,668 annually.\u201d<\/p>\n 4)\u00a0Numerous analysts have concluded<\/a>\u00a0that the complete train wreck that was the launch of Healthcare.gov was in fact designed to fail in order to avoid a sudden backlash from Americans irate at the massive premium increases.\u00a0Online database experts say<\/a>\u00a0the system wasn\u2019t even tested before it was launched. \u201cSo far, the Affordable Care Act\u2019s launch has been a failure. Not \u201ctroubled.\u201d Not \u201cglitchy.\u201d A failure,\u201d\u00a0wrote the Washington Post\u2019s Ezra Klein<\/a>. Even CNN\u2019s\u00a0Wolf Blitzer said<\/a>\u00a0it should be delayed for a year. Only about\u00a01 out of every 100 people<\/a>\u00a0who have attempted to enroll for a health care plan (if they could even access the website in the first place) have been successful.<\/p>\n 5) For those Americans who are able to enroll in Obamacare, they are putting their private information at the mercy of hackers and NSA spies. IP addresses, social security numbers, private bank account details, employer details, email addresses and passwords are all being uploaded to a shoddily designed database that is wide open to penetration, and the record can never be deleted. \u201cObamacare is the meta-level con of tricking Americans into thinking they\u2019re signing up for free health insurance when, in reality, the website primarily exists to scrape personal financial details, passwords, emails and social security numbers from Americans who will later be targeted by the government itself,\u201d\u00a0writes Mike Adams<\/a>.<\/p>\n 6) As a result of Obamacare, the general precedent has now been set, thanks to last year\u2019s Supreme Court ruling, that the federal government has the power to force Americans to purchase private goods and services. What\u2019s next? Will the government force Americans to buy a certain brand of \u201ceco-friendly\u201d vehicle only? Will the feds force Americans to buy \u201clicenses\u201d to watch television, as happens in the UK? The door has now been opened with potentially disastrous consequences for financial freedom and the cancerous growth of big government.<\/p>\n 7) Obamacare provides the IRS with a new justification to hunt down Americans deemed to be evading the new system. While claiming that the IRS will not target Americans who don\u2019t sign up, the administration\u00a0last year directed $500 million<\/a>\u00a0to the IRS \u201cto help implement the president\u2019s healthcare law.\u201d With the IRS already claiming the power to prevent Americans who are merely under investigation from leaving the country, a House Ways and Means Committee study last year concluded that\u00a016,500 new IRS agents<\/a>\u00a0would be hired to oversee the nearly two dozen tax levies imposed by Obamacare.<\/p>\n 8) Many small businesses are firing workers and scaling back working hours in a desperate effort to avoid exorbitant Obamacare costs. Whereas\u00a0giant companies like McDonalds<\/a>\u00a0have received waivers,\u00a0almost half of small businesses<\/a>\u00a0said they froze hiring as a result of the Affordable Care Act and one fifth said they had been forced to fire workers. Numerous companies\u00a0announced last year<\/a>\u00a0that they would be laying off hundreds of employees. Many businesses are also\u00a0reducing the number of hours<\/a>\u00a0their employees work in order to avoid Obamacare mandates. According to the\u00a0Congressional Budget Office (CBO)<\/a>, Obamacare will be a disaster for the US economy, expanding the deficit by billions of dollars every year and \u201cfurther spiraling America into an uncontrollable debt.\u201d<\/p>\n 9) Other small businesses have chosen to close down entirely. A chiropractic clinic in Pennsylvania was\u00a0forced to close down<\/a>\u00a0as a result of receiving reduced payments from insurance companies thanks to Obamacare. CiCi\u2019s Pizza franchise owner Bob Westford\u00a0pointed out<\/a>\u00a0that the additional $221,000 in taxes as a result of Obamacare was $78,000 more than the combined profit of his three restaurants, making the decision to shut up shop a no brainer.<\/p>\n 10) The only entities that seem to be benefiting from Obamacare are giant insurance companies, who have all\u00a0seen their stock prices soar<\/a> over the last three years. That\u2019s unsurprising given that it was the insurance companies who\u00a0wrote the foundational document<\/a>\u00a0for Obamacare in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Soaring costs, assaults on privacy, and a nanny state gone wild Paul Joseph Watson 1)\u00a0Research by the Manhattan Institute\u00a0documents how average insurance rate premiums will rise 99 per cent for men and 62 per cent for women under Obamacare. 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