Monday, October 21, 2013

The Dirty Secret Behind ObamaCare No One's Talking About

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At this point, much is being made about the failure of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare.

President Obama himself tacitly admitted as much by calling in what amounts to an emergency rescue squad from Silicon Valley to try and make sense of the dysfunctional website...paid for by the American taxpayers at a staggering cost of over $500 million. The website itself was granted to a company with connections to Obama backer George Soros, CGI Federal in a no bid contract, and the job they did was so amateurish and sloppy that they even opened the government to a lawsuit for violating the licensing agreement of a copyrighted web script used by the site.

The estimated cost to repair the system and get it up and running again may run as high as $2 billion, and it might take months to repair.

Meanwhile, Americans coast to coast are experiencing sticker shock over the huge increases to their existing healthcare policies, and the demographic ObamaCare targeted to pay the freight - largely uninsured healthy young adults - is steering clear as they discover what enrolling in ObamaCare actually entails.

For instance, here’s a typical deal that's being offered:

“One option available only to people under 30 is a so-called catastrophic policy that kicks in after a $6,350 annual deductible. In Monroe County, you can buy that policy on the New York State of Health exchange for as low as $131 a month for single coverage.”

Let's look at the math. They're offering coverage for $1,572.00 per year that only kicks in after you pay $6,350, not a sum the majority of under 30s still paying off student loans have laying around even if they happen to have full time jobs. Any wonder that healthy young adults aren't signing up, and opting to pay the tax instead? And without their participation, ObamaCare is doomed to failure.

And it gets worse. Even if the president's team ever gets the website fixed to allow people to enroll in one of the new exchanges, your insurance could turn out to be worthless. Most HMO and PPO plans today understand that if one of their insured is facing a catastrophic emergency like a car accident or a heart attack where immediate medical treatment is necessary, a locally available 'out of network' doctor or hospital might have to be used at times and they will cover that care. Because ObamaCare does not allow any payment at all to to out of network physicians or hospitals who do not accept ObamaCare, a steadily increasing group, a single medical emergency could end up costing a person with ObamaCare insurance thousands of dollars.

There are significant voices on the right end of the spectrum who are saying that the best policy is simply to allow this debacle to happen. The strategy they're touting assumes that when this happens, both President Obama and the Democrats will be blamed for the colossal and expensive failure and it will all end up collapsing and eventually being repealed anyway.

They're missing two important factors.

First, no federal entitlement has ever been repealed.They just morph into something different in the name of 'reform'.

And that brings us to the second factor, the dirty secret behind ObamaCare - it was always designed to fail.


President Obama and his minions always had the goal of Sovietizing the American health care system by making it single payer and having it controlled solely by the Federal government. ObamaCare was never anything more than a poorly constructed Potemkin village designed to fail so miserably that the American people would demand single payer just to get rid on the unwieldy mess ObamaCare would create.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid admitted as much  when he was asked whether Obama Care was merely a step towards single payer answering, “Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.”

Senator Reid's told PBS in his interview that he and other 'progressives' wanted single payer all along, but even with the Democrats having a veto proof majority in 2009, they didn't have the 60 votes needed to push it through.

“We had a real good run at the public option … don’t think we didn’t have a tremendous number of people who wanted a single-payer system,” Reid said.

But in the end, some Democrats weren't willing to go along - Reid named former Senator Joe Lieberman as a prominent obstacle - so they opted for the next best thing...a cumbersome train wreck in the making which, as an added benefit, provided plenty of pork and contracts for well connected donors as well as 'new revenues' the Democrat euphemism for increased taxes.

Not only that, but it provided funding and employment for President Obama's friends at ACORN as ObamaCare 'navigators', regardless of felony convictions and legal resident status.

That's where things stand now. The next target, especially if President Obama's union allies get the waiver they're screaming for will be an all out assault on employer-sponsored health care, with vast increases on co-pays and employee contributions...except, of course if you're lucky enough to work for someone who has a waiver or is subsidized, like members of congress and their staffers.

Repeal of ObamaCare is the only way to avoid this. 'Reform' just adds another facade to an already corrupt and crumbling structure. And repeal is going to involve electing enough members of Congress in 2014 with the spine to insist on repeal and stick to it, as well as holding their feet to the fire to make sure they don't weasel out in classic DC fashion.

And yes, those really are the only choices available.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well written. Very, very true.

Geoffrey Britain said...

Thank you for pointing out that ObamaCare was always intended to be a transition step to single payer nationalized health care.

Re: "repeal is going to involve electing enough members of Congress in 2014"

This assumes that a slim majority of Americans will vote for Tea Party/Libertarian/conservative candidates...

2012 demonstrated that just the opposite applies with a slim majority indoctrinated into the left's narrative. What's changed?

louielouie said...

What's changed?

pardon me while i horn in on this conversation.
we can talk back and forth about ff here and he won't know about it.
ff suffers from being an eternal romantic/optimist, which makes him the perfect opposite of myself.
i'm going to assume for the moment you are from britain but familiar with the form of government we have in the colonies.
the house of representatives is the only branch of gov't that will ever be repub.
this is in line with john edwards proclamation of two americas.
urban and rural.
the key is to get hold of an election map, from the past four years, showing the districts in each state. this may take some doing. fox had a good one for 2008/2010. it will be colored red/blue for the respective districts representation.
the president will forever be democrat progressing toward communist.
the same with the senate.
the supreme court is a joke.
if you find a map like i describe above you will quickly notice that the blue, with only a few exceptions, correspond to major metropolitan centers. the red, the vast majority of the land area, will be red.
the bottom line?
communists live in the cities.
self reliant independent minded individuals reside in rural areas.
as the house of representatives is determined by numeration, and the states have not been able to gerrymander that effectively, there is slightly more than half of the population still living in red territory.
the senate has nothing to do with population and will forever be blue as the large cities will elect the senators.
i hope this clears this up.
don't tell ff we talked about him. he'll never know.

louielouie said...

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/house

Anonymous said...

Assuming a sizable majority is elected to the House in 2014, enough to overide a presidential veto, the Senate will NOT see an supermajority of Republicans in 2014. Not enough Democrats are up for reelection, and of those up for reelection, around NINE of them are from states where people will just reelect the same bums, even if they were dead.

Anonymous said...

As an old large online systems' programmer/analyst, I say it would be cheaper to hire competent people [not Michelle Obama's classmates or Barack's Buddies] to design the system & write the code from scratch. I know many IS Professionals who would do a quality job Faster; Better & a damn site Cheaper than $500 Million dollars Hell I could be persuaded to come out of retirement to help if I didn't hate the very idea of Socialized Medicine & a large bloated Government. That's the reason for entering this comment as anonymous; I don't want to fix Obozo's S**T for him.

Anonymous said...

That's quite evident of California in the case of Queen Pelosi of the Egyptian 3rd Dynasty & Florida super-dingbat, Alan "The Marxist Lip" Grayson; not to mention prior Non-lovable Non-useful Libiot stars. You know those could write tax code but never follow it; those criminal lawyers who committed crimes themselves etc. Of course that's what you get when you allow the Dead to vote. They just have no imagination whatsoever.

Anonymous said...

AbominationCare is a device to redistribute moeny---that's all it's ever been intended to be. Wake up, people!