The CEO of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations says if the House healthcare bill passes, people will be driven into the government option by their employers.
Dr. David Stevens tells OneNewsNow that he currently spends up to 50 percent of his employees' salaries on health benefits. But under the present healthcare reform proposal on Capitol Hill, he would only be charged eight percent of an employee's salary in penalties should that employee be put on the government option. "So what's going to happen the way they've set this up is, they're going to drive employers to drop their healthcare plans," he predicts, "[then] put people on the public plan. [This] is going to inflate the cost tremendously, but also give the power to the government to ration healthcare." Stevens explains this will be done "because then, [the government will] have them on the public program where they decide what [employees] get and what they don't get." Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California) is promising a vote on H.R. 3962, the Affordable Healthcare for America Act, by the end of this week. Dr. Stevens notes that the only thing halting its passage is roughly 40 pro-life Democrats who refuse to support the bill because the government option covers abortion.
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