Repeal Obamacare

Liberals had hoped, and some conservatives had feared, that the legislative Frankenstein’s monster known as Obamacare would become more popular as its sundry measures were implemented. But the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is no more popular now than when it was passed, as Americans have come to realize that it will neither protect patients nor provide for affordable care. While full repeal of the law is not within the realm of short-term political reality — the presence of Barack Obama in the White House and a Democratic majority in the Senate ensures that — repeal should nonetheless remain the end goal, either one piece at a time for now or root and branch.

The price tag for Obamacare has gone from shocking to preposterous. In March 2010, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the ten-year cost of the law at $898 billion; by February 2013, that number had climbed to $1.6 trillion, and it is likely that further revisions will be in the upward direction. That is a very high price to pay for a system that will, by the admission of its own supporters, leave some 30 million Americans uninsured. Long gone is the fiction pronounced by President Obama and repeated by his media enablers that the law will not add “one dime” to the deficit; the latest estimate is that Obamacare will add as much as $6.2 trillion to the long-term national debt, according to the Government Accountability Office. No thinking person takes President Obama seriously on fiscal questions, but those alleged experts and pundits who argued for Obamacare on fiscal grounds should be regarded as thoroughly discredited.

 

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Even the terminally stupid people who produce the Virignian Pilot are starting to get a clue. Today's issue has a front page story on the increased cost of health insurance that directly assigns blame to ObamaCare.

Study: Health law to raise claims cost 32 percent

What's bizarre about this story, which is actually an AP story, is not so much that it was actually printed in the Virginian Pilot, a pioneer in cheerleading for all things Obama, but that the writer says:

It could increase premiums for at least some Americans.

If you are uninsured, or you buy your policy directly from an insurance company, you should pay attention.

But if you have an employer plan, like most workers and their families, odds are you don't have much to worry about.

"Could increase premiums?"  "Could increase premiums?"  "Could increase premiums?"

 

Sure.  In the writer's alternative universe insurance companies are going to see their claims costs increase by 32%, but it may not affect what you pay for insurance because ... What?

 

Your insurance company if going to absorb the cost and willingly go bankrupt?

 

Your employer won't ask you to pay more if their insurance costs go up 32% - or more?

 

How stupid does the writing think you are?

 

Well, gently reader of the Virginian Pilot, since you voted for Obama's second term, he probably thinks you are one of those low information people and will swallow anything.

 

For those who are not terminally dense, we saw this coming and wnated nothing to do with it.  And even now are trying to firgure out a way of avoiding this Liberal disaster. 

 

Meanwhile, look how happy everyone looks in this three-year-old picture.  Remember every face in that crowd of elected miscreants.  Never forget.   Never forgive.