Duffy's vision of universal health care in this country: Duffy would get his identification card from the National Health Care office after showing them his passport and paying an annual fee of $250. He would be able to use the card to go to any doctor, any hospital, get any test, any drug and any medical procedure he wanted. No co pays, no upper limit on benefits, no pre-existing conditions limitation. This all would be "free" because the Government would not be taking any additional taxes. There would, however, be an additional 33% "health access fee" taken from his paycheck but this wasn't a "tax" strictly speaking, according to President Obama. All legal U.S. citizens were covered under this plan and Medicare and Medicaid were abolished and folded into the National Universal Health Care Plan.
Duffy did notice that waiting to see the doctor was now twice as long and the doctor, when he did get to see her, was noticeably more rushed as he had to be in and out of her office in five minutes. Until the new graduates of the 50 new medical schools that Obama promised started to appear, the American people would just have to put up with these inconveniences. Duffy noticed announcements appearing quite frequently of doctors retiring and turning over their practices to the government. Since all doctors were now strictly limited to how much they could charge, many doctors just retired or moved into other professions. Duffy heard many complaints about the many foreign doctors who could hardly speak English. Hundreds of thousands of insurance company employees were now out of work, but at least they had health care. Many of them went to work for the NUHC Department. Millions of health insurance agents went into other jobs such as selling real estate but at least they had health insurance. Duffy read of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants turned away from medical care because they didn't have their NUHC card. Thousands of illegals were "caught" this way and deported. Meanwhile crops went unpicked and more construction companies failed. Millions of employees lost their group health care benefits as companies ditched them in order not to pay a NUHC "fee" to the government . Famous names such as Blue Cross, United Healthcare and Hartford vanished into history. Their assets were confiscated by the NUHC to help pay for the program.
Duffy needed a knee replacement but was told that it would be at least 18 months at the earliest before he could have it done, and only if the NUHC Authorization Board deemed him sufficiently disabled to have the knee replaced. A tax on sugar and sugar products was instituted to fight the "obesity epidemic". Alcohol and tobacco taxes were increased 500% to encourage people to quit smoking and cut down on drinking. Senior citizens were made to go to mandatory sessions for counseling put on by the AARP on "end of life" decisions. Even funeral homes were limited in what they could charge to prevent "gouging." A National Universal Health Standards Board set national protocols on how all medical procedures should be done by all doctors and hospitals in every state. Failure to follow the national standards would result in loss of license.
Duffy thought how great this was now the U.S. had universal national health care. His taxes did not go up "one dime" just like Obama promised though his paycheck was now about one-third smaller. Even though American lives, as far as medical care was concerned, was 100% in the hands of the Government, Duffy knew that all the small inconveniences in the system would be fixed in the next 20 years according to projections by the NUHC Department. "Fees" might have to be raised another 25% soon to pay for the additional 5 million Federal employees to administer the program but it was well worth it to have universal health care.
A little extreme? Yes, but this vision is shared by many far left liberals as the "solution" to UHC for America. Just warning ya.....
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