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Employees who put in the years of service required to earn retirees’ health benefits from their companies are destined to be dumped onto the Medicare rolls by the new healthcare law.  The law closed a provision where employers received a tax deduction incentive to carry prescription drug benefits for their retired workers.  Companies such as AT&T, 3M, Caterpillar, AK Steel Corp, and now Prudential Financial Inc have begun taking millions, and even billions of charges against earnings to adjust for the government takeover of the health care industry.¹ These new tax laws are designed to give incentives to employers to discontinue this prescription drug coverage by making it too expensive for them to offer.  To compete with companies overseas with much less labor costs, American companies will be forced to cut prescription spending.²  The government’s funnel for collecting everyone into one long waiting line for less care, less often, is taking shape.  But less actually is more when the government controls healthcare.

Preventative care will be a large thrust of the new healthcare law, and for the government to manage this aspect of healthcare they must also manage the patients.  The new prescription identification cards will contain patients’ medical records along with restrictions on what they can eat and where they can go; purely for health concerns of course.  These cards must be swiped at the market to make purchases, and items not approved for consumption by the government will not scan for checkout.  These restrictions will be adjusted to support global warming and other political initiatives.  Many will be restricted to high-fiber low protein diets to render them docile and manageable, and told they are saving the planet.

When the psychological health component of the new law goes into full swing, patients will be profiled for mental health restrictions.  Patients may be diagnosed at risk for a plethora of new disorders, and earn behavior restrictions limiting their associations.  These will determine what events they may attend, places they may travel to, and groups they may join.  To prevent the fraudulent use of counterfeit health cards, they will be replaced by implants inserted under the skin. The saying that ‘if you have your health, you have everything’ is true, and it is also true that when the government has your health, they have everything.

Notes:

^1. Google News, “Prudential to take $100M health care charge in 1Q,” March 30, 2010. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jq4y4VraHNPT_G-NnV80IEiW-FkwD9EOJ5E80  

Josh Funk, “Companies say health care costs hard to swallow,” Google News, March 26, 2010. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmzNv5LYXOA6UM_XmUHdOe9augtQD9ELVL3G1  

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