The Health Care Equation

I tried to reduce the new health care situation into a basic equation. There may be some redundancy here (ie, new taxes will pay for new govt. agencies), but I think you get the point...

You can think about the new health care situation as a mathematical equation, where...

Future costs = $F
Existing costs = $E
New patient costs (base) = $NPb
New patient costs (illegals) = $NPi
Pre-existing conditions = $PE
159 New Govt agencies = $USG
Fines & Penalties = $FP
New Taxes = $NT
Lost Tax Deductions = $LTD
Lost Jobs = $LJ
More Medicaid = $MM
Fewer Doctors = $MD
Increased waiting times = $WT
Interest on the debt = $ID
Regulatory Cost Caps = $RCC
Care Rationing = $CR

$F = $E + $NPb + $NPi + $PE + $USG + $FP + $NT + $LTD + $LJ + $MM + $MD + $WT + $ID - $RCC - $CR

In other words, Future costs = Existing costs + the cost of new patients who go onto the health care rolls + the costs of illegals who become new patients when ObamAmensty is passed + the cost to insurance companies for having to accept pre-existing conditions + the cost of 159 new government agencies + the cost of fines and penalties on individuals and organizations that do not comply with the law + the cost of new taxes on individuals (making more than $250,000) and businesses (passed on to the consumers) + the cost of lost tax deductions to businesses + the cost of jobs lost through disincentives + the increased costs of Medicaid + the cost to the economy of fewer doctors going into the system and more doctors quitting (because they can't make ends meet) + the cost of longer waiting times due to more patients and fewer doctors (time is money) + the cost of interest on the debt (when deficit spending and reality kick in) - the cost of insurance premiums (that would have been higher in a free market) due to cost caps imposed by new health regulatory agencies - the costs saved by the rationing of health care.

I seem to note a lot more "+"s than "-"s. And the implication of the "-"s is not very heartening.