Posted on 11/16/2013 5:18:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Let’s get this out of the way right now—there is no Obamacare fix.
Repeat after me—there is no Obamacare fix.
Obamacare is not an epic failure simply because of its incompetent implementation best symbolized by a $94 million website that doesn’t work. Rather, Obamacare’s incompetent implementation is a symptom of its real disease.
That real disease is this: Obamacare cannot possibly work because it operates outside the natural laws of economics, and it’s another ham-fisted attempt by government to do something that is outside of its God-given (or Constitutional) jurisdiction.
In other words, Obamacare is magical thinking. It’s tilting at windmills, or the legislative equivalent of howling at the moon. It’s an attempt to ignore reality, which is to say its sheer lunacy. And you can’t fix crazy anymore than you can fix stupid. This was never going to work. It was always going to start and end like this, and therefore any earnest or well-intentioned attempts to put lipstick on this turd will just make the foul stench surrounding it all the worse.
For example, right now there are some bi-partisan efforts being mounted in Congress to restore the health insurance millions of Americans have already lost because of Obamacare. However, I don’t understand how that can possibly be done without further government meddling in the market place, which is what cost these people their health plan in the first place. The market place simply responded to the reality of what Obamacare’s various and punitive mandates, penalties, and fees was going to do to the healthcare industry, and was forced therefore by government to respond to the new reality. Unlike government, the market place is not able to just simply print more money or confiscate people’s prosperity when it runs out of resources.
Thus, any attempts to “fix” Obamacare will likely be a perpetuation of the same failed government-interventionist scheme that got us here in the first place. What are we going to do, counter-mandate that now businesses have to provide coverage they can’t afford? So now we’re not just going to cost millions of people their healthcare, but now we’re essentially going to drive job creators out of business while we’re at it? That’s akin to burning the village to save it.
We don’t need “good” government here. We need less government. And less government is good government.
There may be some short term “less government” relief possible like more flexible and generous terms for personal health savings accounts, tax credits to encourage businesses not to drop coverage for their employees, etc. Yet even those are market place meddling to some extent and should not be considered long-term solutions. As Senator Rand Paul put it on my radio program recently, those aren’t fixes but simply making Obamacare “less bad.”
Obamacare can’t be fixed but it does have one cure—repeal.
A group of liberty loving patriots tried to effectively repeal Obamacare by defunding it, but they were betrayed and undermined by the leadership of their own party. So now that we’ve established there isn’t any real good to be done in attempting to “fix” Obamacare and the die is cast, it’s time to make those who decided they’d rather shut the government down then address the concerns of the American people own their decision. Nowhere does it say Republicans are responsible for providing the spoonful of sugar that helps the Democrats’ bad medicine go down. They demanded this millstone be tied around their necks, so get out of the way and let the American people hold them accountable for it. Let the American people “make D.C. listen.”
In the meantime, instead of wasting time trying to fix something that cannot be fixed, put your best and brightest minds on coming up with a Constitutional and practical plan for what you’re going to replace Obamacare with (i.e. emphasis on preventative care, making health insurance portable, incentivize healthcare sharing programs, etc.) once the American people have sufficiently punished those responsible for this disaster in next year’s elections
It would be nice if the GOP had such a plan. It's not hard: tort reform, inter-state insurance, basic catastrophic coverage, and a very few other details. Less government intrusion, and the marketplace solves the problem.
there is no Obamacare fix.
You can’t fix stupid but you should impeach him at the very least.
You know? I noticed the menu screen shot above of the site. A few weeks ago I made several comments here and elsewhere about the icons and pictures on their website steps and process.
One of the icons they used (used to be on the left) was what looked remarkably like toe tags used in morgues. They are GONE now.
The GOP has had several plans. Heck, even that bozo McCain had a good healthcare plan (which actually punched the keys you mention) when he was running back in 08. However since it is a GOP plan which doesn’t really increase the scope of government the MSM dismisses it as nonsense.
Ahem….., 600 million and it has nothing to do with the stink in’ website. It’s the stink in’ law,…stop talking about the stupid website….IT’S THE LAW STUPID!!
True, but at least you can medicate crazy (possibly).
The time to do it is now before this deadly virus kills us.
I'm sure most sane Republicans (there are a few) will resist the urge to jump in and instead lay back on a comfy recliner with a nice beverage and watch the Dems sink themselves.
Even total repeal will not undo some of the damage already done. Yes, nationally, we would recover and be the wiser as a people for the hard lessons learned. Even the breach of trust between the people and their government, and our diminished international role as the purported beacon of freedom, could heal over time. But right now, there are people who are facing their eternal destiny far sooner than they had hoped to. They will die, unwilling victims of utopian magical thinking. Marxism is incompetence codified. The very best Marxists always leave a trail of dead and dying in their wake, as a testimony to their faithfulness to one of the most clever stupid ideas ever invented. The damage done to to human lives by this stupidity will leave some permanent scars, children who will never know their parents, lives and bodies disfigured by maladies once easily corrected by the best healthcare sytém in human history, but eclipsed during a time of national madness. Such damage only God can heal.
The left is funtionally and certifiably insane, unable to apprehend any concept that lies outside their ideological death grip. Their pathological hyper-empathic micro perception keep them from seeing the forest because all the trees get in the way. They sandpaper their skin with outrage until any sensory input becomes a cause celebre and verification that their enemies are deserving of utter extinction. This is how you get peaceniks to turn into Buchenwald sonder kommandos cheering on their Moslem fanatic surrogates. Read Eric Hoffer’s “The True Believer” if you don’t believe me, lol!
Ted Cruz will soon announce something ....however there are lots of things Republicans have proposed that have been shot down over the years
Hopefully, the people who’ve lost their excellent hc programs can find other ones. The important thing is to repeal this fiasco as quick as possible. If the numbers of people who are permanently harmed by Obamacare can remain fairly low, then the end result can be a positive: a huge blow to liberalism/socialism. But only if people realize the limits of government and the dangers of socialism and utopianism.
Hoffer is fantastic! Not enough people read his stuff.
That's one of the better analogies I've seen. The Republicans and the right wing punditry ought to pick that up and run with it. It perfectly describes the situation in one easily understood visual.
Obamacare’s only chance was for the regime to gut it out; they blinked and the wolves will now rip them apart.
Ms. Sibelius disagrees with Mr. Deace. He reports a sum of 94 million dollars. But ‘in testimony on Capitol Hill, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, in response to a direct question: “Congresswoman, we have spent about $118 million on the website itself, and about $56
million has been expended on other IT to support the web.”
That adds up to $174 million.’*
*From the Washington Post
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Amazing to hear Obama parroting the same sap-happy socialist pablum "paradise on earth" mouthed by the deranged, addlepated Rev Jim Jones.
Kool-Aid, anyone?
BTW, when they found the Rev's body in his Jonestown Paradise---authorities toe-tagged him by verifying his fingerprints. B/c they were on file----for committing a lewd act in a men's rest room.
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