Well, it looks like the longest suicide pact since the Kool-Aid was drunk in Jonestown, is about to be signed in the Senate at 9 P.M. Christmas eve. Interesting that the bill finally became reality with the buy-out of Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, home of the invention of Kool-Aid!

Here's what the takeover of one-seventh of our economy is going to mean to you.

1. You will be REQUIRED to have health insurance or face substantial fines.

2. Instead of a public option, insurance exchanges will be created offering government-subsidized insurance.

3. There will be an alternate government-run insurance option that will be watched over by the US Office of Personnel Management.

4. Although the plan's "benefits" won't kick in until 2014, insurance companies will immediately be barred from coverage denial to children with pre-existing conditions. Adults will have to wait for this until 2014.

5. Insurance companies will face the requirement of using at least 80% of premium dollars on customer care.

6. The expansion of Medicare for un-insured 55 year olds is DROPPED.

7. Medicaid will be expanded, as will subsidies for people needing help to buy coverage.

8. People earning over $200,000 will pay a 0.9% increase in Medicare payroll tax.

9. Small business will see $12 billion in tax credits made available to help them comply with the new law.

Since only the taxes and costs begin immediately and the "benefits" don't start until well after the next presidential election (!) in 2014, this rush to legislate begs the question, "What's the hurry?"

The Health Care Devil is in the Details

This bill and its more frightening counterpart that has already passed The House are ill-conceived and detrimental. Unfortunately, with all the behind-closed-doors wrangling going on, the bill must be passed before all the details become public knowledge (or even Congressional knowledge)!

Anyone who believes that Obamacare will only cost $871 billion over the next decade AND will reduce the deficit by $132 billion must be crazy, considering that that other bastion of government-controlled largess, Medicare, has un-funded liabilities already 2.6 times larger that last year's entire economy.

The most disgusting part of all this is that both Congressional bills, which will now seek to find common ground, do nothing to address the real problems that have contributed to a broken healthcare system: lawyers who sue and doctors who over-test to avoid those lawyers.

It says volumes when Senators have to be bought and paid for just to agree to vote yes. What a shame it wasn't your Senator or ours who held out for a little "sweetener."

Because the bill's expansion of Medicaid will be a huge financial drain on every state's already stretched and, in many cases, under-water budgets, Sen. Ben Nelson held out for the guarantee that all US taxpayers will end up paying for Nebraska's Medicaid costs "in perpetuity."

Since we'll be paying for Nebraska we might as well move there. We hear that Omaha is lovely this time of year.

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