Dr. Deane Waldman explains at Investor’s Business Daily how the rhetoric surrounding the current health care reform debate strays pretty far from the facts.
Supporters of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) claim an unparalleled victory, a promise fulfilled, and a cure for our failing health care system. Detractors see the end of the world: “thousands will die” from lack of health insurance.
Let’s all step back from the ledge, take a deep cleansing breath, eschew the hyperbole, and consider … facts. …
Fact #1: Nothing has happened, nothing at all. Despite the shock and awe, regardless of proclamations of “insurance for everybody” on the one hand or doomsday on the other, the AHCA has not impacted the health care of a single American in any way, shape, or form. …
… Fact #2: The Senate is likely to change the bill that the House just passed: they may totally revise it; and they could even pass nothing at all. …
… Fact #3: The ACA created twelve new taxes such as the Medical Device Tax, an Earned Income tax, the Cadillac tax, and the Medicine Cabinet tax. Four previously existing taxes were increased, including the Biofuel tax and the Medicare Payroll tax. The AHCA rolls back virtually all of these taxes. There is a good chance that the Senate will leave the rollbacks in place.
