Replies

I am not convinced Obamacare was designed to fail, just that the policy wonks who hurriedly wrote the 3,000 pages of the bill put together a Rube Goldberg plan that cannot practically function. The Democrats in Congress just voted for it without having read or even vaguely comprehended what was in those 3,000 pages... hence Pelosi's idiotic statement "we have to pass the bill to know what is in it" Hidden in the bowels of Obamacare was the provision for small businesses to issues scores of 1099 forms to their vendors...repealed by Congress after much pressure. The long term care provisions of Obamacare...quietly ditched because there was no possible way to pay for them. The excise tax on medical suppliers ...now being fought by some members of Congress who are finding out that the tax will likely send medical manufacturers in their state overseas. Again with the costs and details of the coverage more surprises.

Obamacare will without question fail miserably whether by poor design or as part of a plan to force the country to a single government run health care option. The big question is will the idiots who voted for the bill or the morons who re-elected Obama be happy with what they get. The low information voters who have been lied to with promises of less costly care, pick your own doctor, keep your own plan if you like it and expect the same choices in care you have today may soon see the extent of the lies. Will they be happy to pay more to stand in long lines for a 10 minute visit with a Physician Assistant, be denied care options and even see their loved ones fall victim to the death panels? Sooner or later all but the dumbest will see the extent of the lies.

I don’t think this was hurriedly written.

Lefties have been drooling over this for decades.

All across the Beltway there are buildings chock-full of lawyers and poli-sci majors who are constantly on the phone with non-profits, action groups, lobbyists, etc. They sit and draft and redraft this stuff until all the jots and tittles satisfy the requisite donors and power brokers.

They may have cobbled it together from different drafts in their hurry, realizing it was finally time to put it in play.