More Concerns for the Affordable Care Act(Obamacare) Delay: Part 2
As most Americans know by now, the ACA has been put on delay for an estimated one year, but no real reasons have been brought out to the full public forefront why this could be occurring right in the midst of this steam rolling new agenda. Recently, articles by the New York Times,Reuters as well as a new Gallup Poll from small businesses may reveal some of the screeching halt slowing down the healthcare reform bill. The Gallup Poll asked 603 small businesses how the new healthcare reform might effect them . The responses were quite startling. Forty-Eight percent felt that ACA would hurt their profitability, 41 % had already quit hiring and another 5 % have actually cut down their workforce.
This is all in the middle of a 41 % reduction in hiring by U.S. small business noted as of June, 2013.
Small businesses have spoken and it isn't promising for what lays ahead for the labor force. Erick Erickson, reporting on the New York Times analysis on his radio show stating that 74% of small business will either reduce employees, cut hiring or only use part-time workers to combat the costs of covering their overhead while facing the new ACA mandate obligated by all business with more than 50 employees. A new U.S. Chamber of Commerce Poll appears to be supporting similar statistics as well. Mike Shedlock(Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis) reported that the number of those who left the labor force compared to those employed yearly has been merely a net yearly gain in 41,000 jobs annually and that's even with voluntary and involuntary part-time jobs increasing. The analysis interprets these statistics as a direct cause of the financial impact of the mandate small businesses have with the ACA. Combining this with the upcoming midterm elections puts the ACA in the "cross hairs" for the "Battle for America", again. It is absolutely the most important issue ever in American history because it cuts across every strata, all genders, social classes, ethnicities, but most importantly it now has effect on the personal individualized behavior determining a "new class" in America, the health status as defined and covered by the state.
No statute will ever have more impact on one's civil liberties and privacy in the history of the U.S.A. That new massive digital "databasing" of everyone's medical history as mandated by the government is so broad and sweeping that it is too big for the average American to wrap their heads around. They do not fully understand the implications of what they are permitting to be allowed with their most revered information down the road as defined in those 3000 pages of the ACA. Unlike other taxes placed on a trade(product) as "healthcare" is now defined, this information will be put in the hands of several anonymous persons at large third party payers, government insurance companies, drug companies, health supply and drug companies alike. There is a cause for not only this being a privacy issue , but also a potential ethical issue. When you purchase a cigarette, a pack of gum or tennis shoes , you pay a tax. Maybe at best a credit card company will have your purchasing history, but with the purchase of medical products there is a critical caveat of how this information will be collected, stored, passed along and perhaps even "traded". The incredible mass compiling of information promises to give electronic medical record databasing companies an unprecedented amount of power. Finally, another troubling matter for the ACA are the hushed reports by the American Medical Association predicting that 40 % of physicians over the age of 55 will retire by the time the ACA takes effect .
Other medical recruiting and survey companies report an even more serious situation. They anticipate that more than 50 percent of physicians will "retire" by the time the ACA takes effect and that it is due to the demands being placed on physicians, hospitals and clinics. Perhaps the largest demand looming over physicians with private practices is the obligation to purchase new medical records computers to input digitally the data of patients. Some of these computers and the programs cost between $20,000 to $50,000. It will be problematic to say the least for private practitioners to support this with the other concerns that clinicians have in maintaining their practice. So, what is the answer? As usual the American voter will have "ante-up" and decide at the polls in the final analysis what's best for them, mostly through electronic ballots.
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Small businesses have spoken and it isn't promising for what lays ahead for the labor force. Erick Erickson, reporting on the New York Times analysis on his radio show stating that 74% of small business will either reduce employees, cut hiring or only use part-time workers to combat the costs of covering their overhead while facing the new ACA mandate obligated by all business with more than 50 employees. A new U.S. Chamber of Commerce Poll appears to be supporting similar statistics as well. Mike Shedlock(Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis) reported that the number of those who left the labor force compared to those employed yearly has been merely a net yearly gain in 41,000 jobs annually and that's even with voluntary and involuntary part-time jobs increasing. The analysis interprets these statistics as a direct cause of the financial impact of the mandate small businesses have with the ACA. Combining this with the upcoming midterm elections puts the ACA in the "cross hairs" for the "Battle for America", again. It is absolutely the most important issue ever in American history because it cuts across every strata, all genders, social classes, ethnicities, but most importantly it now has effect on the personal individualized behavior determining a "new class" in America, the health status as defined and covered by the state.
No statute will ever have more impact on one's civil liberties and privacy in the history of the U.S.A. That new massive digital "databasing" of everyone's medical history as mandated by the government is so broad and sweeping that it is too big for the average American to wrap their heads around. They do not fully understand the implications of what they are permitting to be allowed with their most revered information down the road as defined in those 3000 pages of the ACA. Unlike other taxes placed on a trade(product) as "healthcare" is now defined, this information will be put in the hands of several anonymous persons at large third party payers, government insurance companies, drug companies, health supply and drug companies alike. There is a cause for not only this being a privacy issue , but also a potential ethical issue. When you purchase a cigarette, a pack of gum or tennis shoes , you pay a tax. Maybe at best a credit card company will have your purchasing history, but with the purchase of medical products there is a critical caveat of how this information will be collected, stored, passed along and perhaps even "traded". The incredible mass compiling of information promises to give electronic medical record databasing companies an unprecedented amount of power. Finally, another troubling matter for the ACA are the hushed reports by the American Medical Association predicting that 40 % of physicians over the age of 55 will retire by the time the ACA takes effect .
Other medical recruiting and survey companies report an even more serious situation. They anticipate that more than 50 percent of physicians will "retire" by the time the ACA takes effect and that it is due to the demands being placed on physicians, hospitals and clinics. Perhaps the largest demand looming over physicians with private practices is the obligation to purchase new medical records computers to input digitally the data of patients. Some of these computers and the programs cost between $20,000 to $50,000. It will be problematic to say the least for private practitioners to support this with the other concerns that clinicians have in maintaining their practice. So, what is the answer? As usual the American voter will have "ante-up" and decide at the polls in the final analysis what's best for them, mostly through electronic ballots.
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