Posted on 11/26/2013 6:39:04 PM PST by Bratch
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They’re still pulling the wool over some eyes, friends. So let’s call them out yet again. I was recently interviewed on Fox News Sunday. One question I answered was prefaced with the supposed “fact” that “30 million MORE people will be covered by Obamacare.” That statistic is about as credible a promise as “if you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan.”
Obamacare is presently hitting people who buy insurance on the individual market because they may not receive health coverage through their employers. It’s hurting millions! But you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Just wait until the Obamacare employer mandate kicks in next year. As I told Fox News Sunday, despite what the White House and media report, tens of millions more Americans are set to lose their employer provided insurance plans. The ramifications of this WILL fundamentally transform America.
The article linked today at the top of Drudge confirms my point, which is significant because my point was mocked until this article confirmed it. Headline: “Almost 80 million with employer health care plans could have coverage canceled, experts predict.”
Companies that provide health insurance plans that aren’t compliant with new burdensome Obamacare mandates will obviously decide it’s cheaper to dump employees into the government-run Obamacare exchanges and pay the penalty than try to provide an expensive Obamacare-approved plan.
No one in America will be left unscathed by Obamacare. Please trust me on this. The media can repeat all the bogus White House stats they want about false claims like the individual mandate “only affects 5% of the public,” but they can’t change reality – NUMBERS DON’T LIE – and America is about to get “mugged by reality” very soon, to paraphrase Irving Kristol.
Far from providing more Americans with insurance, Obamacare is ironically hurting the very people it was sold to as some kind of health care savior. More people will choose to pay the IRS penalty and go without insurance because they can’t afford the increased rates slamming them, plus they now have fewer options in this one-size-fits-all expensive bureaucratic exchange which forces people to buy coverage for things they don’t want nor need. We’re talking about one-sixth more of our economy controlled now by big government, remember.
Do not forget that Obamacare contains health care rationing. When I warned America about “death panels,” I was denounced as a liar. But now the reality of “death panels” is openly admitted, even touted by some liberals as their solution. Just yesterday yet another prominent liberal media lapdog joined the chorus in finally admitting that death panel-style rationing is “built into the plan. It’s not like a guess or like a judgment. That’s going to be part of how costs are controlled." This guy and his ilk need to apologize to all of you, NOW, who knew what I was talking about, repeated my warnings, and were mocked and criticized for it. (Don’t hold your breath.)
The truth is the “enlightened ones” knew all along that rationing was in the plan. They were angry with me for saying it out loud. The twin pillars of Obamacare have always been redistribution and rationing. Take away one of those pillars and the whole thing crumbles. That’s why Obamacare is doomed. You were smart enough to know that, while they were arrogant enough to keep up a deceitful ruse until their White House control was guaranteed. They’re busted now, though. And that’s why they’re scrambling to distract you and hope you won’t realize how enormously important upcoming elections are to save our economy.
The redistribution aspect will be Obamacare’s undoing. Not enough young or healthy people will apply for Obamacare because it’s simply unaffordable. It makes NO economic sense for them to voluntarily sign up. They’ll choose to pay the IRS fine instead. This will bankrupt the whole Ponzi scheme, which is premised on young and healthy people paying for those who are sick or have pre-existing conditions. And when Obamacare fails, the left will push to have us move to full socialized medicine under a so-called “single payer plan.” This is exactly what Barack Obama touted as a candidate, as did many of his bureaucratic appointees, but the media glossed over that all these years.
Friends, the only way to fix Obamacare is to scrap this stuffed turkey and start over with genuine free market, patient-centered reforms that allow people to purchase insurance across state lines, enact tort reform, and give individual insurance buyers the same breaks we give employer provided insurance. And we need to elect leaders who will fight for us to get it done.
Keep all of this in mind this week as we break for Thanksgiving. Be warned the White House is arming leftist supporters with “talking points” to try to convince family and friends around the Thanksgiving table that Obamacare is the greatest thing since sliced pumpkin bread. You should politely let them know you’re not swallowing that turkey.
Thank you for doing your own homework, for trusting the truth I’ve expressed, and for refusing to let the “enlightened ones” keep America in the dark.
- Sarah Palin
Here’s the article linked at the top of Drudge today:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/26/evidence-shows-obama-administration-predicted-tens-millions-would-lose-plans/
You're being far too kind. I prefer the tar, feathers and rope approach myself.
Incorrect! In 2008, it was 47% that were permanently brain-dead. Unfortunately in 2012, that number rose to 52%.
The bastards outnumber us now.
It amazes me to see the Democrat in denial.
Obamacare is going to phuck tens of millions of people and the Democrats own it.
Do they really think people will elect them again?
See Greece, and you see our future. People are really not that different.
The reason Obamacare will fail is it ignores the science of actuaries. Such scientific calculations based upon trends, demographics, social science and statistics are the backbone of the insurance industry. It is economic principle that is characteristic of the free market system. The Democrats have ripped out that backbone and have sent America’s health care system on a plane ride to disaster.
The Democrats have ignored economic principle when the insurance pool is weighted towards the most sick and penalizes the healthy by increasing their premiums — so much so that some will choose to pay the small penalty rather than participate. This design ignores the fundamentals of actuarial realities where the larger numbers of healthy support the costs of the sick.
Because Obamacare must be issued to everyone who applies with a one-size-fits-all coverage, it sets up another failure. The sick will sign up when they get sick and, because of its one-size-fits-all cost, will drop it when they are cured. The pool will get sicker with fewer healthy people to cover the costs. It will cause premiums to rise with devastating results to the system.
Another problem is Obamacare will force more employers to put their workforce on 32 hour work weeks to avoid the responsibility of covering them. This will lower the purchase power of the workers who will not be able to afford the rising cost of the premiums.
The Obama Syndicate’s utter disregard for the practical consequence of its reckless experiment has put one-sixth of the United States’ economy at risk. May the Democrats go down with their disastrous scheme and be out of power for decades to come.
A belief in socialism is predicated on a complete misunderstanding of economics and a total disregard for capitalism's realities. Coupled to, of course, an abject inability to learn from experience...
Just as I've been telling Dem voters for the past few years -- except it won't be rocks being thrown.
Lots of people know what sort of signs their neighbors had in their yards for recent elections, and they won't forget when their kids start missing meals, missing dental visits, missing all the little things that keep kids reasonably contented.
Dem voters will get the blame, and rightly so.
Yes. And each of those was shortly after a war that changed the course of history.
We can do that again -- not by choice, but probably by necessity.
The only thing she got wrong is that the death panels aren’t going to be the type you can argue your case in front of. The rules will be written by committee, enforced by committee, and you’ll get the decisions as faits accomplis.
Not only do these Yahoos ignore economic law, they also ignore Natural Law which is the basis of our Constitution. It will be decades of work to weed these Yahoos out of the political landscape. I compare it to tracking down the Nazi war criminals who number about 9,000.
Thanks for the ping. Yet another stunning photo of her. Her strength is inspiring, I honestly don’t know how she does it. May our Lord forever keep her safe.
Thanksgiving dinner is at MY house. Anybody trying to defend DeathCare will be escorted out the door.
Washington and Grant were, at least. And Eisenhower could have had the nomination of either party in 1952.I think you’ll recall the tagline, “DRAFT PALIN,” which I used starting before the campaign for the ’12 Republican nomination got under way (January of ’10, IIRC). I warned at the time that the alternative was probably “future president” (yeah, right) Romney.But it just seems to be hard to get conservatives to coalesce around a single candidate.
Good post. Your reference to getting “sucker punched” made me realize something.
The Kenyan is trying to be Knockout King.
It’s the third world inner city thug playing high stakes games with our lives.
That way he can slap hands with his Marxist friends and brag about knocking someone out cold.
I have a feeling that about 99.9 percent of Palin haters on both the left and the right have never actually read or heard Palin's words, but are instead basing their opinions of Palin on what others say she said. Palin is eminently sensible every time.
For someone who is “well-known as a world-class idiot” she certainly turns out to be right more than the media (who call her that)
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