I was once a totally responsible citizen, paying for my individual insurance plan that was at the top of affordability already. Then came Obamacare, and there is no way I can pay almost $600 per month for just me. Add the deductible to that and I would never have the benefit of my insurance without a major catastrophe.
So I am one of those little, invisible, insignificant persons whose statistic is brushed under the rug. THERE IS NO WAY I AM ALONE, BUT YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW BASED ON THE REPORTED STATISTICS OUT OF OUR LYING GOVERNMENT and the stupid politicians who don’t do their homework.
The truth of it is that back in the early 90s, Hillary saw the potential of government healthcare as the golden goose and steadfastly endeavored to implement government takeover of the about 17% of the GDP in the process. Her ‘task force’ who were all secret, meeting in secret, and unaccountable to anyone but her had all the bases covered.
In one case, her ‘plan’ had doctors who actually took cash from a patient going to jail. Other parts of that pesky government implementation of this basic ‘service’ entailed outright “one time assessment/levy” on ALL private retirement/401K and similar accounts. Numbers bandied about at the time for 5, 10, 15, even 20%.
Our chance was when Obamacare was in the midst of being enacted. Our GOP gutless, ball-less, coward leadership chose to just sit back, vote a token minority “no” and let it all pass. They said at the time “it’ll kill Obama’s chances in 2012.” Coward bastards. And guess who they support now?