The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring cigarette manufacturers to include graphic pictures on cigarette packages intended to convey the possible negative health impact from years of smoking.
In fairness shouldnt the FDA do the same thing for ObamaCare?
As multiple surveys studies and reports have shown the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will harm peoples health.
- Increased Costs: ObamaCares requirements and mandated coverages are already driving up the cost of health insurance.
- Rationing: Access to some of the newest therapies and innovations such as pharmaceuticals will plummet as the Independent Payment and Advisory Board (IPAB) determines what the government can afford.
- Worse Outcomes: In the new system controlling spending not providing high-quality care will be the goal. As a result patients will be harmed.
So we think truth in advertising demands that when ObamaCare is promoted to the publicas it is with the new taxpayer-funded series of TV ads from the Department of Health and Human Servicesthe government should include pictures that visually depict what can happen to a person who makes a habit of using ObamaCare.
Its in that spirit that we offer the three pictures above for your consideration.
Todays PolicyByte was written by IPI Resident Scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews.
