ObamaCare by the
Numbers
60
Democrats voted for it in the
Senate, and zero Republicans voted for it. President Obama and Congressional
Democrats own this legislation; keep that in mind, while reading how much money
this has cost.
$2.6
Trillion -- That is the latest
Senate Republican Budget Committee estimate -- using the Congressional Budget
Office numbers -- of what ObamaCare will cost in its first ten years.
$716
Billion -- This is the amount
of money President Obama removed from Medicare to help pay for ObamaCare. For
many seniors with UnitedHealth Group Medicare Advantage plans, you will not
be able to keep your doctor, because UnitedHealth has dropped
thousands of doctors from the plan.
More
than $4.3 Billion -- According to
USASpending.gov, this is the amount spent on 2,118 grants and contracts so far
to try and get the Affordable Care Act up and running. All that money spent,
and it's still a disaster.
More than $1
Billion -- This is the cost to create just the federal
website, www.healthcare.gov, which is meant to be Americans' portal to
purchasing ObamaCare exchange plans and has been in the works for more than
three years. So what did American taxpayers get for more than $1 billion in tax
dollars? A website that crashed on the first day it was open for business and
has been down for maintenance every night and some weekends since October 1. It
is doubtful taxpayers will ever learn how much the Obama Administration is
paying to try and fix it.
26,794 -- This is the number of people who
signed up in the first month through the federal website.
As a footnote to the Health and Human Services
(HHS) report in Orwellian-speak, "'Individuals Who Have Selected a
Marketplace plan' represents the total number of 'Individuals Determined
Eligible to Enroll in a plan Through the Marketplace' who have selected a plan
(with or without the first premium payment having been received directly by the
Marketplace or the issuer) during the reference period. This is also known as
pre-effectuated enrollment."
In English, "pre-effectuated
enrollment" translates to "wishful thinking."
$1.1
billion -- This is how much the
14 states and the District of Columbia spent to set up their individual
websites. They were about as successful as the feds in getting people to sign
up for ObamaCare.
79,391 -- This is how many people signed up in the
first month throughout the 14 states and the District of Columbia's websites.
(This total also includes the HHS' "pre-effectuated enrollments.")
So the total sign-ups for the federal and state
websites for October 2013 were 106,185. Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Kathleen Sebelius, said the government would know by December
15 how many of those
106,185 people actually bought the plans they signed up for, which would
transition them from "pre-effectuated" enrollees to actual enrollees.
396,261 -- This is how many people logged onto the
ObamaCare website and found out they don't have to buy insurance because they
are eligible for Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This
means, of course, that taxpayers will have to pay more in taxes to cover these
new costs.
500,000 -- This is how many people President Obama and
Secretary Sebelius estimated would buy insurance through healthcare.gov in
October.
7
million -- This is how many
people the government needs to sign up by March 31, 2014, to make ObamaCare
work.
More
than five million Americans
-- This is the number of people in the individual insurance market who have
already had their insurance policies cancelled due to ObamaCare. That number
will continue to grow.
52
million -- This is the low
estimate of how many people could lose their health insurance because of
ObamaCare.
41
percent -- This is the average
increase for individual-market health insurance policies after ObamaCare. The
average increase for men in the individual market will be 99
percent and for women it will
be 62 percent. This is supposed to be affordable?
More
than 700 -- This is the
number of bogus websites scamming people trying to sign up for ObamaCare. If
you are not getting ripped off in an actual government-mandated plan paying for
coverage you don't need or want, you may be getting ripped off by identity
thieves and crooks.
$67
million in government grants -- This is how much the 105 "navigator" groups are
receiving to try to get people to sign up for ObamaCare. Community organizing
meets government- mandated healthcare, and a new industry is born.
Planned
Parenthood got in on some of this
navigator funding, which is probably not a surprise to most. Planned Parenthood
of the Heartland in Iowa received $214,427; Intermountain Planned Parenthood in
Montana received $295,604; Planned Parenthood of Northern New England in New
Hampshire received $145,161, and three Planned Parenthoods are sub-grantees of
organizations in Oklahoma and Utah receiving navigator funds. Planned
Parenthood has a vested interest, given the fact that consumers are not able to
tell which ObamaCare
exchange plans cover abortions and have a monthly abortion surcharge to help pay for abortions,
so it is exceedingly difficult to avoid paying for something they oppose. The
more people Planned Parenthood signs up for these abortion surcharge plans, as
the nation's largest abortion provider, the bigger the abortion slush fund
becomes.
$5
million -- WebMD, a consumer
health information website, received this amount to shill for ObamaCare.
$130,000 to the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens; Pittsburgh
Steelers: $ amount unknown
-- These two National Football League (NFL) teams are promoting ObamaCare.
Perhaps the payment amount should be zero if it is based on a success rate.
Secretary Sebelius held an event at Heinz field and only
100 people showed up in the 60,000 seat
stadium.
When President Obama and Congressional Democrats
decided 2010 was the time for the government to take over one-sixth of the U.S.
economy, the writing was on the wall that Americans would suffer. That writing
now extends across the nation as people receive the cancellation notices in the
mail or others find out their monthly premiums, annual deductibles, and co-pay
amount are all going up, for many by huge amounts.
The government cannot guarantee health care to
everyone without mandating that some must pay for others. Young, healthy people
are expected to carry the burden to cover the elderly and the sick. Without the
young picking up the tab, ObamaCare collapses.
A trillion dollars here, billions spent there,
millions losing their health insurance, millions more seeing their costs
skyrocket, and only 100,000 enrolling so far all add up to a big ObamaCare
mess. The cost is much greater than just dollars; American lives are now at
stake.
Brenda Zurita is the Research Fellow for
Concerned Women for America's Beverly LaHaye Institute.
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