We should have all known that when Pelosi said ‘you’ll see what’s in it when we pass it”...that we’d get a big fat nothing burger?
We should have all known that when Pelosi said ‘you’ll see what’s in it when we pass it”...that we’d get a big fat nothing burger?
As a self-employed person subject to pay directly for its mandate, ObamaCare is many things, but it is not a "nothing burger".
My high-deductible policy in Texas now costs just over $14,000/year. The IBD report says that BC/BS have filed for a 50% increase over that for next year. Before ObamaCare kicked in, I was paying about half the current the premium for similar coverage, though I admit that my over-50 wife and I now receive "free" birth control and pediatric dentistry coverage that we didn't have under the the old policy.
ObamaCare is not a "nothing burger": It is a trainwreck that was designed to fail forward to either Britain-style socialized medicine or Canadian-style single payer.
Yes, Pelosi’s statement was an example of utter absurdity but the first thing a lot of people need to learn is that when the federal government decides to “reform” an industry and healthcare IS an industry, there is no possible way to have a positive outcome. An amazingly high percentage of Americans have not understood that in the past. The possibility of that working out well is the same as the possibility that Santa Claus will fill your living room with gold on Christmas Eve.
I still cannot believe how many young people and some not so young, believed eight years ago that the government was going to give everyone in America FREE health care!