Kind of like “The Trail Of Tears” in a way.
It cannot be repeated enough that the political party which made health care a political issue for decades, in the guise of helping the poor and the homeless, ended up causing more people to be uninsured than it enrolled. And THEN, some of the law had to be unlawfully delayed until AFTER the elections to protect the clowns that imposed it on the population. EPIC FAIL.
All analysis needs to exclude 0bamaMedicaid peeps.
Social engineering by idiots who believe they are intelligent beyond imagination
Next step is for the call that it was a good try, but we have to have single payer to fill in where this failed and because everything in the market is in Chaos (as planned)....
Obamacare. Twice the price. Half the coverage.
NOTHING is changed ... for the EXEMPT hated Congress,
their staff, their families, and the Moslems they serve,
and arm, and bow to, as they continue to the ignore
the US Constitution.
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This law is the most evil thing to ever come from a president and the democrat party. People really need to ask themselves ‘why?’ before voting for democrats ever again.
Will the republicans take advantage of it? Time will tell, but if recent history is any example, then no they won’t.
No, not a fail ... they accomplished most of what they set out to accomplish. Single Payer is closer than ever.
How else would you start a MASSIVE new welfare program? It has nothing to do with health or insurance…only redistribution of wealth to the favored cronies, dark skinned peoples and assorted parasites.
Now, how many of the 11% that were previously uninsured are how on Medicaid?
I will guess a substantial number of them had no insurance in 2013.
Which brings up an obvious question I asked before Obama signed the bill in 2010:
Why didn't we just put ALL the low income folks on Medicaid and leave the rest of the health system alone?
Clearly, the cost issue would still have been a significant problem, at least $150 billion a year.
But our deficit spending is already so huge, what difference would another $150 billion make?
Now, we are stuck with this insanity, because it is clear that McConnell, Boehner, and Paul Ryan are not going to do one serious thing to stop ObamaCare.
And Medicaid is known to be the very next thing to useless.
Obama’s Great Leap Forward.
The title of this article is EXCELLENT! That idea needs to be hammered home among all the bleeding heart social justice whiners. They need to have their noses rubbed in the fact that their votes to “insure everyone” have had the opposite effect. And to add insult to injury, costs have gone up for nearly everyone. As far as I can tell, there have been no positives with this law. The only winners have been crony capitalists who made money (some insurers, incompetent and unqualified website designers, etc.), and a very, very few people who were previously uninsured. The social justice crowd needs to answer the question about whether it was ok to acquire insurance for a few previously uninsured while causing a larger number to become uninsured. Is this what they wanted all along?
Now it can be told:
OBAMA/CARE IS A SOCIAL JUSTICE LOTTERY......and, IMHO, is eminently prosecutable under those terms.
ANLYSIS Obama called Americans' cancelled health plans "substandard". Ergo, a good lawyer would construct his legal arguments around the fact that Obama means Americans must buy plans HE likes---plans he specifically designed to serve his social equity and income redistribution goals......
......same as a state lottery redistributes income to education, etc.....to achieve socially beneficial goals......
In Obama's calculated view, "some" Americans must now pay first-class fares for coach seats so that "hand-picked" Americans can pay less, and receive extra benefits.
O/Care induces every American into paying into the program. Some people "win" subsidies, tax breaks, deferments, exemptions, etc, while others are "losers"---excluded from these benefits.
Obama picking winner and losers raises legal questions that Obamacare is an illegal lottery. By picking winners and losers.....a court might decide O/Care is an illegal lottery.
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REFERENCE (I'm sure the law books have better examples): The following is an example of a Federal Statute defining Lottery:
According to 12 USCS § 25a, “lottery" includes any arrangement whereby three or more persons (the "participants") advance money or credit to another in exchange for the possibility or expectation that one or more but not all of the participants (the "winners") will receive by reason of their advances more than the amounts they have advanced, the identity of the winners being determined by any means which includes--
(A) a random selection;
(B) a game, race, or contest; or
(C) any record or tabulation of the result of one or more events in which any participant has no interest except for its bearing upon the possibility that he may become a winner. (SOURCE uslegal.com/lotteries)
Yes. To make employer-paid healthcare go away. So corporate CEO's could flow those premiums to their bottom lines (after taking a cut for incentive compensation).
The GOP can't quit this defense of Obamacare until private, employer-paid health insurance is, in the immortal words of Rahm Emmanuel,
DEAD! .... DEAD! .....DEAD!!!
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