ObamaCare fails before it starts. Why?

ObamaCare, all 2800 hundred pages of it, was rammed through Congress on March 18th. To convince moderate Democrats to support the bill, Obama – aided by Bill Clinton – told the waverers that failure to pass a bill was worse for them than passing it despite polls showing the majority of the public disapproved.

Here is the part of their strategy that baffles me. The main parts of ObamaCare don’t go into effect for several years. I mean the parts that were supposed to appeal to the Democrats’ natural constituency: the people for whom government is the supplier of rent payments and food stamps. There are as many uninsured people out there today as there were before March 18th. Obama, Reid and Pelosi did this, of course, so that they could have the Congressional Budget Office make the spurious claim that insuring 30 million more people and increasing the number of things that insurers are required to cover would not cost any money, in fact it would reduce the deficit!

Here's Brad Ellsworth of Indiana:

In addition to meeting my pro-life principles, the plan reduces costs, improves access to affordable insurance options, covers pre-existing conditions, and does not add one penny to the deficit.

The problem is that while no one in Congress read the bill, the people who have to follow the law – insurers and employers – did. And they are not waiting; they are getting ahead of the mandates that Congress passed. Insurers are dropping policies that no longer make economic sense under ObamaCare. Employers, like McDonald’s and Boeing are reacting; one saying that unless it receives waivers from complying with the law it will drop coverage on most of its employees and the other raising the deductibles and co-pays for its employees.

From Big Government:

“McDonald’s and 29 other firms have received waivers from a requirement to up the minimum benefit covered by insurance, making it possible for their employees to continue to buy low-cost coverage. But thousands of other workers are not exempted and will not be able to afford the government’s idea of good insurance.

The AP Reports:

Citing health care law, Boeing pares employee plan.

In a letter mailed to employees late last week, Boeing said deductibles and copayments are going up significantly for some 90,000 nonunion workers.

So instead of becoming more popular as Harry Reid predicted, ObamaCare is becoming even more toxic as people learn that their insurance is going to be more expensive or that their insurer is dropping them altogether.

What were these “wizards of smart” thinking? Sycophants in the press have told us that not only is Obama “a sort of a God” but that he is the most intelligent being to ever occupy the Oval Office. Surely Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are not political neophytes. How could they have thought that passing a wildly unpopular bill with all of the pain and none of the gain frontloaded was a smart political move? Why did they believe that people whose business relied on coping with government mandates would sit idly by and allow themselves to be destroyed?

There a movie about self-destructive people like this made about 20 years ago: "Thelma and Louise."  Obama just drove the car he's always talking about into the Grand Canyon.   Me, I'm having a Slurpee.