Posted on 01/05/2015 4:40:34 AM PST by rootin tootin
Obamacare was designed such that its most harmful provisions would not be implemented until after the President had been returned to office for a second term and his Democrat accomplices had been reelected to their congressional seats. Fortunately for the nation, the latter part of that strategy was a spectacular failure. Nonetheless, it did provide the public with a temporary reprieve from the health care law’s most painful exactions. That brief respite is now at an end. This year, you will begin to experience the realities of “reform” first hand and you are not going to like how it feels.
In fact, you are probably already feeling the first twinges without recognizing that their source is Obamacare. If you are among the 150 million Americans who get health insurance through their employers, for example, chances are that the coverage your company offered for 2015 has much higher premiums than did last year’s plan. The President and his toad eaters in the legacy media will do their best to convince you that these increases are caused by insurance company avarice, but this is merely another lie they are peddling in the hope that they can save Obama’s “signature domestic achievement.”
The actual cause was the looming employer mandate and other Obamacare regulations that took effect January 1.
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My “real pain” started two years ago when “I liked my policy, but I couldn’t keep it”. It was canceled. The pain continued this year when my replacement policy was canceled as well and a compliant one raised my premium payment 60%. Needless to say, I refused to fork out that outrageous increase, so I downgraded to a catastrophic policy that still cost more than my second replacement policy.
For those just getting a taste of this crap sandwich, I empathize and welcome to the club.
My policy doubled and I had to go elsewhere. Had to give up my doctor and the deductible will bankrupt me.
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The government making everyone buy private health insurance in a government regulated market increases cash flow into those insurance companies.
The government putting more Medicaid money out in private insurance contracts increases cash flow into private insurance companies.
“Death Panels” increase the bottom line of insurance companies with the government becoming the ‘bad guys’ for denying treatment, not the insurance companies.
The first Obamacare from Mitt Romney in Massachusetts, now nationwide with Barack Obama was needed because of the “freeloaders” (people without insurance) showing up for treatment. This was a political maneuver to deal with costs for hospitals and insurance companies.
REAL CONSERVATIVES WILL 100 PERCENT REPEAL AND REVERSE OBAMACARE, NOT JUST COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW BAD IT IS TO USE POLITICALLY AGAINST DEMOCRATS IN SPEECHES.
Its good that those who have company subsidized policies will begin feeling the pinch this year - I wish I had a nickel for every one I've heard talk about how 'great it is 7-9 million more people have insurance' after ACA passed.
The real pain started when odumbo was first elected, it only continues with each passing day.
Why ISN’T this the first issue for the new congress ?
“The government making everyone buy private health insurance in a government regulated market increases cash flow into those insurance companies.”
Hillary failed to get the insurance companies on board for Hillarycare. The insurance companies funded to the tune of tens of millions of dollars the anti-government healthcare ads, resulting in the failure of Hilarycare in Congress.
The Obamacare architects learned from the Hillarycare experience. They got the insurance companies on board by designing the plan to increase their profits and at the same time guarantee a certain level of profitability at the expense of the taxpayer. Big pharma got similar deals. With insurance and pharmaceutical companies neutralized as an opposing force, the Obamacare passed.
It is interesting Obamacare did not open up national competition for health insurance products or a national marketplace. A national marketplace would have allowed the efficiencies of scale to be applied to the market resulting in lower premiums. Allowing consumer to shop for insurance across state lines would have also brought more competition to the health insurance market, resulting in falling prices. However, the current fragmented state limited market system works to the advantage of the insurance companies.
It now appears the GOP is on board with keeping Obamacare. If the GOP is afraid to attack Obamacare head on by voting for repeal, at least it could pass a reform measure opening up market to allow consumers to shop across state lines for insurance. However, not a peep from the GOP about a market oriented “free enterprise” reform. Instead the GOP is talking about eliminating the medical device tax which will only result in higher deficit spending or more pressure for higher income taxes.
The GOP is fully in bed with the Democrats on national health care. Crony capitalism triumphs over the free market.
Perhaps because it is a millstone around the Dems’ neck. Why help the Dems remove it? Let the people fully realize what the Dems did to them, and then they have the political capital to repeal the whole thing.
The public is just going to wretch and then pull the flush handle on the Beltway Pol/Crony Capitalist axis.
The result of which will be either a return to a TRUE free-market economy, or a regulatory punishment regime run by the Fake White Indian.
Perhaps because it is a millstone around the Dems’ neck. Why help the Dems remove it? Let the people fully realize what the Dems did to them, and then they have the political capital to repeal the whole thing.
We need real choices in our elections, not false choices bought and paid for by special interests with emotional propaganda campaigns to create imaginary issues-differences between the two big parties.
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