The new plan also allows more preventative treatment, something that many insurance companies currently don't allow. As dozens of studies have shown, preventative medicine reduces not only mortality but costs as well.
About 19 million middle-class families will receive tax credits averaging about $4,800 a year for health coverage, according to the independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO). However, some people won't get that advantage. Those will be persons earning at least $250,000 a year. Those persons will pay a slightly higher tax, still well below the tax rate during every presidential administration since the Eisenhower Administration, with the exception of what was supposed to be a temporary tax cut by the George W. Bush administration. In a side benefit to more than 98 percent of all Americans, they will no longer be paying a higher tax rate than multimillionaires running for the presidency.
Finally, the CBO has said that implementation of Obamacare will reduce the deficit by $100 billion in the first decade, and $1 trillion in the next decade. But you don't hear any Republicans mention those facts.
In Mr. Romney's case, and the case presented by the bloviators of the right-wing that has smothered the once-respectable Republican party, truth is just the first casualty in the war of words.
[Dr. Walter Brasch is the author of 17 books, most focusing upon the fusion of history and contemporary social issues. His current book is Before the First Snow: Stories from the Revolution. His next book, scheduled for release, Nov. 15, is Fracking Pennsylvania, a look at public health, environment, and political corruption issues in the natural gas industry.]
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