Guest AuthorObamacare is an unmitigated disaster.
It has been from the beginning. Any time that Congress passes something along strictly partisan lines, it probably is not a good thing.
To rush the vote so that a then-newly minted GOP senator, Scott Brown, couldn’t vote was just the last straw in the first act of this dark comedy. It’s hard to list all of the nefarious twists and turns.
There was the fact that the bill was so long that no one even read it before passage.
This bill was so flawed that Congress members exempted themselves and their staff from the perversions of the law. And who lead the charge? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat. He knew that this was going to be punitive to many and so he and other Democrats in the Senate and House elected to exempt themselves and their aides.
Nanny Government wants you to do what they say, just don’t follow what they do.
Then there was the fact that some big supporters of Obamacare like unions finally realized that their members were going to get screwed and they started asking for an exemption so that their members could keep their healthcare plans.
But Nanny Government knows best.
Throughout the presidential election, it now appears that President Obama knowingly lied to the American people. His staff told him that millions would lose their coverage, insurance that provided people with the coverage they needed at a cost they could afford. It may have not been the best, but it was what they needed, no more, no less.
Nanny Government knows that Joe and Jane Lunchbucket can’t make the best decisions. So they told insurance companies that if you change the policy and it doesn’t meet the new regulations, then it must be cancelled.
Never mind that millions of Americans would lose their insurance — it was only going to be 5 percent.
Nanny Government doesn’t wince at 5 percent or millions of citizens because it knows what’s best for all of us. You might have liked your policy, and you might have been able to afford it, but it’s a bad policy and government has a better, more expensive one for you instead.
All of a sudden the employer mandate started looming and it dawned on the government that this wasn’t going to work. So, despite the provisions of the law, the President decided to unilaterally forgo the onerous provisions for another year.
Though the President does not have the legal authority to defer a law, Nanny Government doesn’t need permission.
But in the final analysis, it’s not the fact that only a few citizens have signed up for Obamacare coverage. The key to the success or failure of this plan is who is signing up.
If the enrollees are the estimated 27,000 who are the sickest individuals who couldn’t get insurance anywhere else, then that will not portend well. If healthy Millennials aren’t signing up in droves, then this plan will surely fail. And if the lowest income individuals, the ones who will be subsidized the most, are the ones joining Obamacare, then it just exacerbates the problem.
The idea, of course, was to spread the risk. But with only the sick, elderly and the poor signing up, Obamacare will collapse.
Even if Obamacare somehow succeeds, there will still be about 10 million Americans uninsured. That means that expensive emergency rooms will still be providing primary care to many.
Just the fact that the President declared that all policyholders who received cancellations over the last few weeks will now have their policies reinstated is a perpetuation of the “lie.” Because insurance companies were not consulted, it has thrown the entire healthcare debacle into the forefront.
Last weekend three young men in California created their own Obamacare website during a weekend. They did it with no dollars or help from government, which is proof that Nanny Government is fatally flawed.
