Obamacare and the Charlatan

POLITISITE ^ | 26 October 2013 | Colonel Steven B. Vitali USMC (Ret)

[Col Vit]

Obamacare is a mitigated disaster for America, economically and spiritually. Obamacare is imploding as rhetoric meets reality. Republicans were lambasted during the governmental showdown for advocating heresy in that they asked Obama to delay the Obamacare employer mandate for one year. Congressional Democrats rallied behind the Senate Majority Leader, Reid and held the line causing Republicans to eventually cave. Ted Cruz, the architect for fighting for Obamacare changes was pillared by Obama, Reid, and even the Republican establishment.

Now, the same Democrat Senators who ridiculed Senator Cruz’s efforts to stall the implementation of parts of Obamacare are now singing a different tune as they prepare to face their constituents in the upcoming 2014 elections. These Democrat Senators are breaking away from their party and pressing Obama to delay the employer mandate and penalties for a year. The stampede by Democrats to implement the Affordable Care Act was to enshrine permanently a socialized healthcare system and to transfer power from the legislative branch over to the executive branch. The accumulation of governmental power has become Obama’s legacy and his one major legislative achievement.

Liberals continue to disregard the notion that the Affordable Care Act was predicated on a series of exuberant fabrications to America’s low information voters. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid false promises were inserted into the daily media driven talking points disseminated to America as if the false Obamacare talking points were truths of life written on tablets created by the Messiah.

The left is so preoccupied in their worship of a charlatan cloaked in celebrity that they became blinded by a simple math problem. How does a healthcare system add 30 million more people with a declining rate of doctors to achieve reductions in healthcare cost; be able to keep their current doctors; and improve their own medical care as promised by Obama? The answer is Obama’s promises were knowingly baseless. Americans do not expect their President to be void of character and honesty. Obama, aided by his own narcissism, correctly placed his bet that the liberal establishment would abdicate common sense for the lies of a celebrity idol. Obama was confident that the progressive state controlled unholy triangle (media, academia, and Hollywood) would bury the truth and devoutly defend the disastrous effects of Obamacare.

Like cockroaches, Congressional Democrats did their bidding comprising the Affordable Care Act legislation with the assist of special interest groups who worked in the backrooms recesses of Congress away from sunlight of open debate. Cowards striking in the dead of night, Congressional Democrats brought forward their overwhelming 2000 plus page monstrosity bill without affording the opposing party any opportunity to read and digest the abundant new regulations and requirements prior to the Congressional vote. In fact, Speaker Pelosi boldly stated, “You will have to pass it to find out what’s in it! She was right and future generations of Americans will suffer and die as a result of Obamacare so that progressives at long last can obtain their dreams of a socialist healthcare system.

What is astonishing to Americans in general is the audacity of Obama’s dishonesty and duplicity in his failed campaign to convert Americans to buy into Obamacare. A majority of Americans exhibit rational thinking and have not fallen for Obama’s efforts to “put lipstick on a pig.” As they say it is still a pig. Obama remains in campaign mode and offers no remorse for his blatant egregious lies. Obama exposes himself to be a charlatan unworthy of his office.

What was the healthcare crisis to precipitate an immediate Congressional action? Obama and Congressional Democrats sold snake oil to the American public exploiting the concerns about rising healthcare cost and lack of healthcare for millions of Americans. Obama employed the theory of the heart, striking at the compassion of the American soul. Prior to Obamacare, federal laws prevented the denial of emergency healthcare services at hospital emergency rooms. In addition, millions of young, healthy citizens made personal decisions not to purchase health insurance.

That said, 85% of the American population were happy with their health insurance while 15% of the population were not. Obama and Congressional Democrats altered and destroyed the greatest healthcare system in the world in order to provide healthcare insurance for 15% of the population. Interesting, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that with Obamacare, 30 million Americans will still be without health insurance. Obama’s stated price tag on Obamacare was $900 billion dollars over ten years and he promised Obamacare would reduce the nation’s deficit by $4 trillion dollars over the long term. Really, according to CBO, the projected cost to taxpayers is $1.8 trillion dollars over the next ten years.

The Obama juggernaut lie machine was in high gear on the campaign trail as Obama extolled the virtues of Obamacare. He stated, “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.” What he failed to inform the public was that his administration would force minimum requirements on all insurance companies forcing their rates to skyrocket. As business forecasted healthcare cost and potential penalties, corporations began altering their work force hours to accommodate potential corporate expenditures. We have witnessed corporations and businesses downsizing a 40 hour work week to a 29 hour part-time employment. Economically, America now creates more part-time jobs than fulltime. Obama stated, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” With less specialized doctors and rising cost, the ability to retain your current doctor under Obamacare is another lie.

Obama stated, “the Affordable Act would reduce the average family of four healthcare cost by $2500 dollars.” The fact is the cost for a family of four will increase, according to Forbs.com, to $7,450 dollars per year. The Heritage Foundation reviewed state by state healthcare cost and determined 45 out of 50 states will see sharp increases in healthcare cost.

How did the rollout of Obamacare website turn out? The original website price tag to build the Obamacare platform was $94 million dollars. The actual cost to-date to build the Titanic Obamacare website cost the American taxpayers a whopping $634 million dollars, an overrun of $540 million dollars. The cost overrun is a perfect illustration of a government on steroids using taxpayer money without accountability. Progressive’s amours affair with socialism allows their aspirations and hopes to be misplaced on a dominant government when empirically, government is the last institution to efficiently administer the fiscal resources of a nation to enrich the quality and prosperity of all Americans.

The enrollment of Obamacare presents a perilous danger to its citizens because the enrollee has no right to expect their personal data will be held private. Also, the Affordable Care Act was design to fail to eventually bring about a single payer healthcare system. Don’t look for Obama, Reid, or Pelosi to lose sleep over Obamacare malfunctions. The other culprit of Obamacare, Congress, is exempted from the laws it forces on the American public. Americans are equal under the eyes of the US Constitution. Obamacare exceptions doled out to special favored groups are an affront to our American way of life and our constitutional right of liberty.

It’s time to bring sanity back and stop the runaway train of Obamacare. Open private healthcare competition across state lines, cap healthcare damage awards by judges and less government intrusion would improve access to healthcare and reduced healthcare cost. Obamacare is not the answer!

Government run agencies are not designed to be able to compete with their private company counterparts. Let’s take the US Post Office for example. The US Post Office lost over a billion dollars in the last year alone while their private counterparts, UPS and Fed X made billions in profit. The quality of service is so miserable with the US Postal Service that they even charge additional fees to guarantee that your letter will be delivered on time. This is called extortion; that’s their only job and you have to pay extra to insure they will do just that, their job. How then can we expect any difference in performance with an agency that will have 30 million new patients with hundreds of thousands of fewer doctors to service them? It’s a catastrophe waiting to happen.

[Democrat_media]

I’m not a lawyer or anything but

I wonder why someone hasn’t just said something like in courts:

3000 pages of government mandates = Obamacare law

15 ,000 pages of government regulations and mandates written by unelected government bureaucrats = Obamcare law

all these government mandates cannot be constitutional. the Constitution was there to limit government. this country was created to escape government tyranny and we are supposed to be the land of the free. 15,000 pages of government mandates to Americans of how they can deal with healthcare etc. is totally against the Constitution and freedom but is in line with Marxism and big government controlling people . all these federal mandates cannot be constitutional

[Paladin2]

"The left is so preoccupied in their worship of a charlatan cloaked in celebrity that they became blinded by a simple math problem. How does a healthcare system add 30 million more people with a declining rate of doctors to achieve reductions in healthcare cost; be able to keep their current doctors; and improve their own medical care as promised by Obama? "

So, where's my annual check for $2500?

[Democrat_media]

I’m not a lawyer or anything but

I wonder why someone hasn’t just said something like this in courts:

3000 pages of government mandates = Obamacare law

15 ,000 pages of government regulations and mandates written by unelected government bureaucrats = Obamcare law

all these government mandates cannot be constitutional. the Constitution was there to limit government. this country was created to escape government tyranny and we are supposed to be the land of the free. 15,000 pages of government mandates to Americans of how they can deal with healthcare etc. is totally against the Constitution and freedom but is in line with Marxism and big government controlling people . all these federal mandates cannot be constitutional

[TLI]

rhetoric meets reality

The best illustration I have seen in a while.

One of the most damning things about the communists here in the u.S. is they rarely allow themselves to be pinned down to a specific action = result.

With the Unaffordable Don't Care Act we have a textbook example of communizing a portion of a nations wealth will NOT improve it.

And they are totally failing in their efforts to squirm out of owning it.

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[SkyDancer]

Affordable care does not mean a doctor or hospital will accept whatever ID card you present saying you have Obamacare insurance. Plus you have to prove you've paid in the $6,500 or so deductible first - and that's with a facility that would accept OC .....

[Jim Noble]

Obama exposes himself to be a charlatan unworthy of his office

At some point in the next 3.5 years, a USMC colonel on active duty is going to reach the same conclusion, and then, things may get - interesting.

[politisite]

Another good write-up Col. Keep it up!

[Pollster1]

"Obamacare is a mitigated disaster for America, economically and spiritually . . ."

Not to be finicky, but:

mit·i·gate ˈmitəˌgāt/ verb past tense: mitigated; past participle: mitigated
1. make less severe, serious, or painful.

ObamaCare is an unmitigated disaster [to help polish an otherwise excellent post.]

[nathanbedford]

Good clear writing reflecting good clear thinking.

Obamacare is an affront.

Obamacare reflects the breakdown of the whole American system. It was passed as the author points out in the dark where lobbyists could work. It was passed out of regular order so that the customary quotas of Senators in assent did not have to be obtained. It was passed by tricks to evade the Constitution where tax laws must originate in the House of Representatives. It was so turgid with 2700 pages of law so that it was passed in ignorance because no representative of the people actually read it.

The law was an affront because it essentially said to the secretary of health education and welfare, go and make a law regulating every American's healthcare, a further evasion of the Constitution, an evasion of constitutional responsibility as set down in article 1 for the Congress alone to make laws. The secretary has written tens of thousands of pages of regulations which, again, no legislator has read and very few if any understand.

Not content with the Secretary of Health Education and Welfare usurping the article 1 responsibility of Congress to make laws, the president himself has unconstitutionally usurped that power by arbitrarily enforcing some portions of the law and declining to enforce other portions of law.

Obamacare reflects the breakdown of the process of judicial review and nothing could better illustrate this ongoing subversion of our centuries-old legacy of judicial review than the contrived opinion of the Chief Justice.

Not surprisingly, the resistance to the law, the effort to defund Obamacare, equally reflected the breakdown of our national political process. The ordinary course of funding the government through passage of a budget law as opposed to a continuing resolution followed by specific appropriations has been done away with to be substituted with rule by crisis and fear, inevitably the financial security of the nation has been wounded, perhaps mortally, not by the attempt to defund Obamacare but by the whole sordid history that led up to the necessity to do so.

The article points out the breakdown of civil morality on the part of the president who has flatly lied to a gullible low information electorate and secured his own reelection partly on the basis of that lie. The article further highlights the duplicity of Democrats in Congress to the sordid business which is further reflected in their disgraceful slanders against the party Republicans as "terrorists" and "extortionists."

The breakdown of the system is further reflected in the treatment by the media of those who try to restore integrity into the process with 100% of the television media utterly declining to place "blame" for shutdown on Obama or the Democrats as well as article after article blaming the messenger. Ultimately, a representative democracy cannot endure without some decency in the media.

Obama and his lies are not solely responsible for the breakdown of the system, nor is the duplicity inherent in Obamacare the cause, they are both cause and effect, creating and reflecting a terrible moral cavity in the American soul. Obama and his lies have laid bare a putrid underbelly of the Republican Party which must be made clean again or the party will die and the disease very likely will kill the Republic.

[jsanders2001]

> all these government mandates cannot be constitutional. the Constitution was there to limit government. this country was created to escape government tyranny and we are supposed to be the land of the free. 15,000 pages of government mandates to Americans of how they can deal with healthcare etc. is totally against the Constitution and freedom but is in line with Marxism and big government controlling people . all these federal mandates cannot be constitutional

They didn’t really expect us to read it. How could we unless we took off several months and used a legal dictionary to understand it or hire an attorney at $300 - $500 an hour with a bill of at least $200,000? Answer: they don’t. They gamed the system against us using the usual legal tactics. Why do you think almost all politicians are attorneys? They have an unfair advantage over us because most people can’t afford to become attorneys and either came from money or had the drive to become one against difficult odds. The odds are that most of them came from a silver spoon lifestyle with little understanding of hardship. The prroblem is that these types of people that govern and write legislation for the masses have little empathy or sympathy because they haven’t had the same trials and tribulations. (noe: this doesn’ apply to the non-silver spoons that earned it the hard way). I’ve always held the belief that legislators should be subject to the same laws they write. Obamacare reinforces my belief in this.

[jsanders2001]

Spot on, as always...

[spawn44]

If it ain’t broke. Don’t fix it. Simple words that will come back to haunt the democratic. But if it’s broke we need to fix it. That be THE FOREIGNERS REGIME

[politisite]

Thanks for pointing that out. I fixed it for the Col. Thank You.

[Liberty Wins]

Hitler learns about Obamacare Exchanges

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-ajt5dk__M#t=29

[jsanders2001]

Just watched this interview from FoxNews with Megyn Kelly interviewing Ezekeil Emanuel, the architect of Obamacare:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/25/tense-megyn-kelly-takes-on-obamacare-architect-over-laws-ongoing-issues-obamas-broken-promises/

Emanuel comes off as a rude, arrogant, intellectual twit liberal who doesnt want Ms. Kelly to get a word in edgewise so that the viewers won’t be able to hear her or think about her criticisms of the Obamacare trainwreck. He favors his evil king well.

[rcrngroup]

Obama exposes himself to be a charlatan unworthy of his office

At some point in the next 3.5 years, a USMC colonel on active duty is going to reach the same conclusion, and then, things may get - interesting.

I hope & pray you're right & that it happens sooner versus later before the sissified, homo, pro-Islamic enlistees overwhelm our military & destroy it entirely.

The only thing that will save our country is a great, massive, bloody battle Civil War II, and to forcibly remove every socialist demoRAT (especially 0dumb0) and the GOP-e RINOs from any form of office - local, state & federal. They need to be booted out of office & most of them deserve long prison sentences or the gallows!

[GOP Poet]

yep!

[pas]

The low information voters still believe. The major media is not reporting on all of the issues.

[tflabo]

How did they arrive at that insurance premiums saving of $2500.00 per family? Who or what did the math on all of this? This is outrageous that their projections are 180 degrees opposite of what they said. Either its a gross miscalculation or a bold faced lie. Either one is highly unacceptable.