The Obama Administration Engages in Contortions to Claim that Obamacare Is a Success

Townhall.com ^ | April 7, 2014 | Daniel J. Mitchell

[Kaslin]

e observed, reported, mocked, written, and explained that Obamacare is a cluster-you-know-what.

So I’m rather bemused and frustrated by the latest pro-Obamacare spin that the law is a “success” because there are now 7 million people who have picked a plan.

There are lots of reasons for normal people to have a what-the-expletive-deleted response to this declaration of victory. For instance:

The goal of Obamacare was to insure the uninsured, yet that number has barely budged, so why is the Administration allowed to move the goalposts to something far more modest?

Obamacare also was supposed to lower premiums by $2500 and allow everyone to keep their plans and their preferred providers, so what happened to those goals?

And why should we even believe the White House spin when we have no idea whether people who have picked a plan have actually paid for that plan?

Moreover, what’s so impressive about getting some people to sign up for plans when they can get something that’s subsidized by taxpayers or other consumers?

But here’s an image put together by Senator Cruz’s office that may be the best – and certainly most amusing – look at the Administration’s supposed “achievement.”

Amen. People are being both coerced and bribed to sign up for Obamacare, in many cases after the law forced the cancellation of plans that they liked.

So why are we supposed to applaud the fact that a small fraction of the population has chosen the only possible option?

That’s the same mentality that allows politicians to brag about our “voluntary” tax system. As if any of us send our hard-earned money to the crooks in Washington for any reason other than the fact that otherwise we would get arrested.

P.S. Since I commented on our acquiescence to the IRS and our “voluntary” tax system, I will admit that I’m amused and chagrined by this poster. It’s minimized since it uses a sometimes-inappropriate synonym for wimps.

P.P.S. Since this post was about the “broken window” theory of Obamacare, let’s make sure to give ultimate credit to Bastiat, who came up with the original broken windows analogy (as captured by this cartoon mocking Keynesian economics).

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Anecdotal reports from tax preparers indicate that virtually nobody is participating, and are willing to take the penalty as well as risking going uninsured. So now, most adult Americans are petty offenders in the eyes of the IRS and a government that has purchased upwards of two billion rounds of small caliber ammunition.

[sten]

even if you believe the numbers pushed by 0bama...

7m enrolled out of 330m for a MANDATORY FEDERAL PROGRAM is actually the largest civil protest in our country’s history

never before has so many told the fedgov to shove their busy body bullsh*t

that’s just a fact

[right way right]

I always tell my 18 year old son, “ Dammit,use your whole ass!”

Everything about Obama is involves lowering standard expectations, and bringing on a perception of success.

The whole administration wants to be half assed, yet full in charge.

The American dream used to be to have freedom to use the potential of our whole ass, it was a personal freedom.

Now, “your ass” has been proclaimed to be a sexual organ.

[Liz]

<><> Ask Obama why he subsidized O/Care by decimating Medicare Advantage for seniors.

<><> Ask Obama why he calculatedly kept the gruesome details to himself while egging on loyal lock-stepping Democrats to vote for O/Care.

<><> Ask Obama why the WH lied to Americans in a way so specific, it showed he knew exactly what to spin and how......via the infamous "If you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan, period."

<><> Ask Obama why he let Democrats carry on for the next three years making believe they'd actually read the ACA bill, pretending they understood its implications.

<><> Ask Obama why he was taken aback by complaints about O/Care from the public.

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Obama and his coterie of lock-stepping Dummycrats are gonna
find out real soon: voters did not just fall off a turnip truck.