Synopses & Reviews
This is going to hurt.
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law a bill that will lead to the largest expansion of government in the history of the United States. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was more than 2,400 pages long and will reportedly cost a cool $1 trillion over ten years, give or take a few hundred billion.
But sticker shock is just the beginning. In The Truth about Obamacare, Sally Pipes shows how Obamas health care reform” will crash into our economy and culture with a tidal wave of regulations that, taken together, will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and see our doctors. How will all those changes affect you, your family, and your fellow Americans? Pipes goes over the bill with a fine-tooth comb, laying out the specifics of how and why Obamacare:
* will drive the countrys health care bill ever higher, according to the governments own economists
* empowers bureaucrats to deny coverage of cutting-edge medicines in order to save the government money
* will exacerbate our nations shortage of doctorsand in fact, is already causing many to close up shop
* will make health care less affordable by forbidding insurers from offering inexpensive, bare-bones policies
* ratchets up Medicare payroll taxesand adds brand new taxes on incomeinterest, capital gains, and dividends
* achieves every penny of its supposed savings” through a series of legislative and accounting gimmicks
* creates a huge new enforcement bureaucracyincluding 16,000 new IRS agents and an astounding 159 new boards and commissionsto hound taxpayers, businesses, hospitals, doctors, and insurers into compliance
* will still leave 23 million Americans uninsured by 2019, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Is it too late to stop Obamacare? By no means, argues Pipeswho shows how Americans can, and must, force its repeal. Then, she offers ten principles for real reform that would make health care accessible and affordable for all without destroying individual freedom, quality treatment, medical innovation, and the economy.
Synopsis
In her new book, The Truth About Obamacare, Sally C. Pipespresident of the Pacific Research Institute and an acknowledged expert on health care reformreveals what Democrats in Congress and President Obama don't want you to know: Obamacare is even worse than most critics suspect. Debunking the myths that the current administration has touted, Pipes shows exactly what the new health care law will mean for you, your family, your doctor, and your wallet. She also reveals how, contrary to its promises, Obamacare will make health care more expensive, limit your options, lead to deteriorating medical care, and weaken Americas already frail economy.
About the Author
Sally C. Pipes is president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute and a renowned expert on health care and economic issues. A former Canadian, and a refugee from Canadas government-run health care system, she lives in California, is a frequent guest on network and cable news shows—from The Today Show to The OReilly Factor, from The Glenn Beck Show to 20/20 with John Stossel—is a columnist for the Examiner newspapers, Chief Executive, and Investors Business Daily, and has written for many other newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.