Obamacare: Sen. Inhofe claims nearly half of Oklahoma residents will lose their Medicare benefits

  According to Senator Inhofe nearly one half of the residents of Oklahoma who receive Medicare benefits will lose their Medicare benefits, while those that do retain their benefits will see a reduction of over $3,ooo in services.

Since President Obama signed the so-called health-care reform bill into law, it has miserably failed American families and businesses,” Inhofe said. “Even though a handful of the law’s provisions have been implemented, it has already resulted in higher costs and loss of current coverage

Oklahoma is a low-supply state for primary-care physicians, with fewer than 11.5 primary care physicians for every 10,000 people,” he noted. “As a result of Obamacare, the percentage increase in Medicaid enrollment will be almost four times greater than the percent increase in primary-care physicians.”Obamacare will also have a negative impact on small businesses, due to a lack of business tax-credits in the Obamacare law, Inhofe added. Only 26.2 percent of small businesses are eligible for small business tax credits under Obamacare, he said

  As much as I disagree with Mitt Romney for implementing the healthcare system in Massachusetts which became the model for the national healthcare reform law, he does have a point. The issue of healthcare reform should be left up to the states. As governor of Massachusetts he was acting on behalf of his state when he implemented the healthcare mandates in Massachusetts and while we can debate the results and wisdom of his actions and of the Massachusetts law, what we cannot debate is Mitt Romney’s authority to do so. However, as healthcare is not one of the specific enumerated powers in Article 1 Section 8 of the constitution we can see that the federal government has no authority to create laws which require all Americans to buy healthcare coverage, or to issue any laws on healthcare coverage at all.

There is no one size fits all national healthcare law which can take into account the needs of the individual states and the situation in Oklahoma seems to provide proof that this is the truth. The needs of the individual states vary from state to state and one cannot expect there to be a singular national law that will be sympathetic to the needs of the individual states, but that is what Obamacare tries to accomplish.

  During the healthcare reform debate Nancy Pelosi made the claim that the Congress needed to pass the bill in order to see what was in the bill (apparently reading the bill before voting on it was out of the question) and now that the bill is passed and we are able to see what is actually in it, the more we realize how disastrous this bill really is.