5 Things you will loose under the Obama Healthcare Plan

Here is a great article publlished by CNNMoney.com on what you will loose under the Obama Healthcare Plan:

1. Freedom to choose what's in your health plan
2. Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs
3. Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage
4. Freedom to keep you existing plan
5. Freedom to choose your doctors

http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_care_reform_obama.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009072410

With so much hype on reforming the healthcare system, I find very little information on actual numbers and costs on how this reform will fund itself. BarackObama.com highlights the current situation and solutions, but what good is a solution without a logical plan to run the program without a deficit? HealthReform.gov also has several reports on why it is necessary to reform health care but does not have specifics. It is drilled into our heads that something or anything needs to be done to create CHANGE. What I find hard to believe is the lack of information available on what this change will actually mean for each individual.

Here are several pro-H.R. 676 websites that advocate how good this reform will be because it will lower health care costs, etc. yet there is no figures, numbers, and/or specified plan on how providing health care for over 300 million people will work.

http://www.healthcare-now.org/
http://www.uhcan.org/
http://www.amsa.org/

Of course everyone wants something for nothing...but as we have all grown to learn, if it's too good to be true, it probably is.

Do your research on the topic before making up your mind!

Mixing Business with Pleasure...

What happens when individuals such as Chris Dodd, head of the Senate Banking Comittee, and Kent Conrad who is Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee mix business with pleasure? A very controversial allegation between one of the biggest mortgage company of our time and two well known Senators.

It is alleged that these two men knew that they were given "preferential" treatment when receiving their discounted Countrywide rates, as well as zero points from Countrywide on the actual cost of a loan. Both Dodd and Conrad deny the allegations stating they were not aware of such favors.

How do two well-educated men, both Senators and leaders of this country, not understand whether or not they are being given preferrential treatment by a lender? It's as easy as comparing fair market interest rate to the rate on your loan documents, and as easy as picking up a phone to call your loan officer/broker to ask simple questions about fees.


Moral of the story:
If you don't ask you won't know, and if you don't know it's because you never asked! Know the facts before signing on the dotted line!

It's over and done with....

The race is finally over....yes you guessed it, Obama is the next President of the United States of America.

They say "Change is coming.." but what kind of change and is it the change that we need?

For people like me who had other hopes for America, tomorrow will be a day of healing. We can only hope things are not going to be as bad as we think.

Hold your head high and may God Bless our country for the next 4 years.