Posted on 04/23/2014 2:08:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last August, as conservatives barnstormed the country seeking to build support for a cockamamie plan to shut down the U.S. federal government unless Congress voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican senator, said something surprisingly prescient about the president’s signature health-care law. “President Obama wants to get as many Americans addicted to the subsidies because he knows that in modern times, no major entitlement has ever been implemented and then unwound,” he said. The worry, according to Cruz, was that once the ACA went into effect, we’d all be “addicted to the sugar.” Then, it would be too late to roll it back.
Cruz’s nightmare, and the left’s long-held dream, has come true. Finally, after years of failed reform efforts, the U.S. government is actually trying to provide affordable health coverage for all. And it’s working, despite Republicans’ relentless attempts to deep-six the law. As a result, the politics of Obamacare will never be the same.
The right’s biggest fear was never really, as Cruz’s comments revealed, that Obamacare wouldn’t succeed. It was that it would.
Americans, it turns out, have a compelling desire for a basic necessity of life: affordable health coverage. That’s why, despite the HealthCare.gov debacle, and campaigns in red states to discourage enrollment and defund outreach efforts, eight million Americans signed up. Young people ignored tasteless ads and anti-Obamacare campus beer parties, funded by the Koch brothers, to enroll at strong enough rates. Millions more enrolled in Medicaid, even in states that did not expand the program, as awareness of coverage options increased. There is even a big upswing in take-up of employer coverage, despite GOP claims that Obamacare would destroy the employer-based system. The Congressional Budget Office just lowered its estimate of the law’s costs,
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communism works?
I think that the democrats are making a mistake if they think that everyone who signs up is also a supporter.”
The really deceitful part is that we will never know how many truly signed up or how many have paid their premiums, unless we have a truly Conservative President elected in 2016. If that happens then the spin will be on that the new President is not telling the truth, they are just trying to make Obama and Democrats look bad.
It’s seldom mentioned anymore that the delay of the employer mandate (plus numerous waivers) put off the impact of Obamacare on by far the largest group of Americans. Of course, it was put off by the coward and liar Obama to avoid an election year disaster this November. That still might not work.
But those who oppose Obamacare should be frequently reminding the public that the greatest impact was put off, and what will likely happen if Obamacare is ever fully implemented.
The republic is gone. Elections are courtesies that serve to appoint oppressors, not reps.
How can it be working when the Obama regime has delayed all of its key parts until after the mid-term elections and beyond?
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Even if it works like a Swiss watch — it still needs to be repealed.
Don’t quote Politico as a honest source.
Losers going on for free and the rest paying much higher premiums for far less coverage. How is that a sucess? Are Repulicns pushing this?
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