[Red in Blue PA]

Gotta love how they do not call it obamacare.

[Gene Eric]

How many temp jobs were added to facilitate the transition?

[Le Chien Rouge]

ObamaCare was designed PURPOSELY to FAIL:

Hence, the Powers That Be will use their minions in the media to blame Health Insurance Companies, triggering the sheeple to DEMAND the government DO SOMETHING and Voila!!!

Single Payer: Just what the left always wanted anyway....

[HKMk23]

From 1999 to 2012...
Population growth: ~12.40% (+34,312,000)
Uninsured growth: ~27.18% (+10,249,000)
Government insured growth: ~51.25% (+34,390,000)
* Medicaid growth: ~86.10% (+23,550,000)
* Medicare growth: ~32.15% (+11,894,000)
* Military covered: ~37.78% (+5,176,000)

Drop the Military figures out of the numbers of government insured and growth drops only slightly to 49.87% as over 29.2 million joined the Medicaid/Medicare rolls.

If the ranks of the uninsured kept pace with population growth there would be nearly 5.6 million FEWER uninsured than there are. Obviously, there was legitimate basis for some concern over what market forces were driving people to opt out of all health insurance options, but the potential public-sector expenditure of paying for medical treatment of some subset of these uninsured was NOT AT ALL “the big problem” we needed to focus on.

If the ranks of the government insured, less military personnel, kept pace with population growth there would be almost 22 million FEWER government insured than there are. Glaringly obvious is that factors spurring the growing ranks of the government insured was — and remains — a public-sector expenditure issue FOUR TIMES GREATER than that represented by the potential medical expenses incurred annually among the totally uninsured. THIS is “the big problem” we should have had in our sights all along.

SOURCE:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/data/historical/files/hihistt4B.xls

[Gabrial]

Every single idiot dem that voted for this country crushing law without even bothering to try and read it should be put in prison for life.

[clearcarbon]

"CBO: health care law (Obamacare) will reduce jobs by 2 million"

Only 2 million? We must not be importing new workers fast enough?

[dragnet2]

Only two million lose their jobs?

And there are only 12 million illegals in the U.S.

[tcrlaf]

Gosh...
Who’d’a’thunk it that the Washington Post, AND the CBO would be racists!!!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

So, Democratcare (using Lodi90’s term) gives people the freedom NOT to work! Let us shlubs who work pay for it!

[Qbert]

Ted Cruz and Mike Lee were right from the get go: This nightmare needs to be repealed.

(...And yet the GOP's puppet master, the Chamber of Amnesty, is now opposed to repealing Obamacare, stating that Congress should be working to "fix the parts of Obamacare that can be fixed")...

[devolve]

- The Unaffordable Queer’s Act

[AngelesCrestHighway]

"Jobs?...You don't need no stinkin jobs!"