Consumers to Blame for Obamacare's Failures [satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 5 Dec 2014 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius attempted to defend the Affordable Care Act health insurance scheme she helped establish by blaming consumers for its shortcomings.

"A lot of Americans have no idea what insurance is about," Sebelius said. "It's a complicated product that few are competent to purchase. In hindsight, our biggest mistake was probably trying to incorporate a modicum of individual choice into the system."

"If we had just set up a single-payer government-run health insurance regime a lot of the complaints that riled the general public could have been avoided," she continued. "All of the caterwauling over the bronze, silver, and platinum plans would never had arisen. Health experts would have determined precisely what services each person should receive using a collective national benefit metric—kind of like what what we do for active and retired military personnel."

Sebelius blamed Republicans. "Their intransigent opposition to socialized medicine derailed us from the course we wanted to take," she claimed. "Only by having the government take care of the necessities of life can people truly be free. What person doesn't fondly remember the carefree days of their childhood when their parents took care of them? Until we institute a comprehensive in loco parentis state we will never be able to replicate that."

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...

https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/167586-2014-12-06-seminews-a-satire-of-recent-news-december-7-2014-edition.htm

[Tonytitan]

Is this REALLY satire, or true liberalism’s beating heart.

[latina4dubya]

this was written so well, it took me up to here to look at the byline!:

"Only by having the government take care of the necessities of life can people truly be free.

[entropy12]