Posted on 03/21/2013 6:55:55 PM PDT by lowbridge
Time flies when you're frantically moving goalposts and remaking one-sixth of the US economy, doesn't it? Three years ago today, the House of Representatives approved the Senate-passed healthcare bill, sending it to the president's desk to become the law of the land -- all without a single Republican vote in either house of Congress. In the lead up to that moment, were effectively peddled legislative perfection. Obamacare would reduce family premiums, bend the national health spending curve downward, insure 46 million Americans, cover everyone for no additional cost, and actually reduce national deficits. The law has since survived enduring public opposition and a razor-thin Supreme Court decision, even as each element of the promised panacea has begun to crumble. Rather than launch into another new omnibus post recapitulating all the flaws of the president's signature legislative accomplishment, I'll just encourage you to go back and read these pieces, dating back to 2010. The steady stream of bad Obamacare-related news has continued to flow this year -- ranging from projections of major premium spikes, to various unpleasant "surprises," to reports of utter logistical disarray, to attempts by Democrats to demagogue and unravel more elements of their own law, to revelations of its true long-term price tag. Keep in mind that most of the "Affordable" "Care" Act hasn't even been implemented yet, although it has already spawned more than 20,000 pages of regulations that with govern your life. As a very special Obamacare birthday present, here's a New York Times profile of a small business that's trying to grapple with the major hit they're about to endure:
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The more you remove healthcare from the free market, the more it costs, the poorer the quality is, incentive to do better and to carry out new research are curtailed, and the less efficient the delivery of said medical service becomes.
The delicious irony is that it is old farts supporting obamacare who will be its first victims. Good riddance I say.
You know, you spend a lot of posts screaming about getting jobs to come back to America.
Obamacare is a guarantee that what you want is not going to happen.
Enjoy your Obamacare.
Like Biden referring to Gabby Giffords...
our nation was mortally wounded 3 years ago.
I have a lib in my life who would probably say it was OK for the panel to deny her care as she gets old.
It’s a religion, and dieing for your religion is showing your true faith.
“The delicious irony is that it is old farts supporting obamacare who will be its first victims.”
But the young will pay a larger portion of the bill. Still delicious?
Not a single Republican congressman nor Senator voted for Obamacare
Landrue here in Louisiana is democrat senator up for reelection . without her vote they wouldn't have had the 60 to get this through. this creature has to be defeated in 2014
Not if we go Galt.
You either forgot the /sarc tag or you are sadly misinformed about what is coming down the pike at us, with all the compassion of the IRS, expediency of the division of motor vehicles, and efficiency of the UPS.
Why do you think that the criminals in congress exempted themselves, and all their friends??
There are improvements that COULD have been made, and SHOULD have been made. Not sure what you saw that meant it was broken; I hope you're all right. I've not observed anyone having problems obtaining medical care, within or without the system, and have always been grateful to God for what we have in this country.
obama is evil, period.
We need a healthcare system. What we have is an extremely expensive medicine system.
But I will quit whining about healthcare now. :D
Don’t want to get banned. I was just feeling crabby and guess I stepped in it.
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