Posted on 12/16/2024 10:07:16 AM PST by grundle
Democrats went on and on and on and on and on about how great Obamacare was.
I knew from the start that they were lying.
And over the years, I managed to document Democrats’ lies about Obamacare, as well as many criticisms from Democrats about Obamacare, in this this blog post, which I titled, “Here are 341 reasons why Democrats and unions that support Obamacare want exemptions for themselves.”
See, the thing is – the best criticism of Obamacare doesn’t come from Republicans or libertarians.
Instead, the best criticism of Obamacare comes from the very Democrats who support it, but demanded exemptions for themselves.
I’ve said this many times before, and I’ll say it again now: I don’t trust anyone who isn’t willing to live under the same rules that they expect everyone else to live under.
Anyway, the recent assassination of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was followed by comments from people from across the political spectrum regarding the huge problems with our current system of health care.
I’m a libertarian, and I happen to agree with a lot of these criticisms.
In fact, I like to call myself a “bad” libertarian, because I always disagree with libertarian theory in the specific cases where libertarian theory is proven wrong by real world evidence.
I’m a “bad” libertarian because I’m actually in favor of some kind of universal health care.
To be very clear, I still think that private health insurance should be legal. And I definitely support the existence of privately owned health care providers, as well as private companies to invent new pharmaceutical drugs and new medical technologies to treat sick people. Real world experience shows that the private sector has been very successful when it comes to inventing new pharmaceutical drugs and new medical technologies.
But when it comes to paying for these things, I definitely think there needs to be some kind of government involvement for people who can’t afford private health insurance, as well as for people who can afford private health insurance but who have a personal preference to be covered by some kind of a government plan. And for those who do want to spend their own money on private health insurance, I think that that should also be an option.
But I’m totally, completely, 100% against the government forcing people to buy private health insurance.
And that’s exactly what Obamacare does.
So I would like for Democrats to please explain why they passed a law that forces people to buy health insurance that denies the claims of millions of sick people.
Why did Democrats pass a law that forces people to buy health insurance that denies the claims of millions of sick people?
It’s such a great question, I’m going to ask it again:
Why did Democrats pass a law that forces people to buy health insurance that denies the claims of millions of sick people?
And again:
Why did Democrats pass a law that forces people to buy health insurance that denies the claims of millions of sick people?
And again:
Why did Democrats pass a law that forces people to buy health insurance that denies the claims of millions of sick people?
Here are the first 10 examples from my previous blog post that I mentioned above. You can read the other 331 examples at the link:
https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/obamacare-59/
Here are 341 reasons why Democrats and unions that support Obamacare want exemptions for themselves
1) After Obamcare was passed, unions that supported its passage requested and received special exemptions
Within months after Obamacare was passed, Obama gave some organizations an exemption from some of the requirements of Obamacare. As time went on, more than 1,300 organizations received these exemptions.
More than half of the people who are covered by insurance plans that received these exemptions are in union insurance plans. These unions supported the passage of Obamacare. But immediately after Obamacare was passed, these unions wanted exemptions from the very same law that they wanted to force everyone else to obey. This reveals an extreme level of hypocrisy among many of the supporters of Obamacare.
In addition, these exemptions are illegal for two reasons – because Obama granted the exemptions without approval from Congress, and because the Constitution requires the law to treat everyone the same.
The Washington Times wrote of this:
“Selective enforcement of the law is the first sign of tyranny. A government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of law invariably embraces favoritism as friends, allies and those with the best-funded lobbyists are rewarded. Favoritism inevitably leads to corruption, and corruption invites extortion. Ultimately, the rule of law ceases to exist in any recognizable form, and what is left is tyranny.”
“The now-familiar monthly trickling down of new waivers is, at best, a tacit admission that Obamacare is a failure. So far, seven entire states and 1,372 businesses, unions and other institutions have received waivers from the law. The list includes the administration’s friends and allies and, of course, those who have the best lobbyists.”
“More than 50 percent of the Obamacare waiver beneficiaries are union members, which is striking because union members account for less than 12 percent of the American work force. The same unions that provided more than $120 million to Democrats in the last two elections and, in many cases, openly campaigned in favor of the government takeover of your health care, now celebrate that Obamacare is not their problem.”
2) After Obamacare was passed, politicians who voted for it asked for a special exemption for their own districts
Even the politicians who voted for Obamacare want exemptions for their own districts.
In response to the medical device tax that is part of Obamacare, some medical device manufacturers have announced plans to layoff employees, including Welch Allyn (275 planned layoffs), Stryker (1,170 planned layoffs), and Medtronic (1,000 planned layoffs).
In December 2012, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren, John Kerry, and 15 other Democrats who supported the passage of Obamacare wrote a letter to Harry Reid, asking him to delay the tax on medical devices, claiming that the tax would hurt job creation in their districts.
3 ) Politicians who voted for Obamacare wanted an additional exemption for themselves and their staff after it was passed
This is another example of how the politicians who voted for Obamacare want exemptions for themselves.
In 2010, Obamacare was passed by the House and Senate, and signed by President Obama.
Three years later, members of Congress and their staff complained that Obamacare was going to cost them a lot of money, and said that this would likely cause a brain drain among their staff. In response to this, Obama made changes to Obamacare so that these things would not happen. However, Obama’s actions were illegal, because he made these changes without Congress voting on them first.
The New York Times wrote of this:
… the language of the health care law requires Congressional employees to obtain health insurance through an exchange created by the law, but other parts of the federal legal code restrict the ability of the federal government to pay the usual employer share for group insurance programs approved by the Office of Personnel Management.
A straightforward reading of the law thus means that Congressional staff members, starting in January 2014, will have to obtain insurance through the Affordable Care Act but pay for it on their own without the normal contribution from their employer — Congress. This would be a multi-thousand-dollar income hit for those affected… many… would potentially feel the pain, giving rise to concerns over a potential brain drain of Congressional staff members finding other employment.
… the federal personnel office initially ruled that Congressional staff members would not be eligible for the subsidies, and then changed this decision under pressure from the White House…
4) An entire state that supported Obamacare asked for an exemption
The people of Massachusetts were huge supporters of Obamacare when it was passed, and they voted for Obama in both elections. But even they eventually ended up asking for their own special exemption from Obamacare.
In August 2013, Obama gave an Obamacare waiver to Massachusetts.
This waiver was illegal for two reasons. First, the waiver was not approved by the U.S. Congress. Second, the U.S. Constitution requires that the federal government treat all states the same.
5) Obamacare supporters at Democratic Underground later complained about it
For some really hilarious displays of shock and outrage by supporters of Obamacare at how it’s harming people, check out these threads at Democratic Underground: one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven.
6) Union members quit their union because of Obamacare
The AFL-CIO was a big supporter of the passaage of Obamacare in 2010, and supported Obama in both elections.
In September 2013, it was reported that 40,000 longshoremen had quit the AFL-CIO, and that they had cited Obamacare as one of their reasons for doing so.
7) Obama broke his own deadline for creating healthcare exchanges
Even Obama himself seems to be an opponent of Obamacare.
Three years after Obama signed Obamacare, the New York Times reported that Obama would miss his own deadline for creating some of the insurance exchanges for small businesses.
8) Obama waited until after the 2012 election to release unpopular Obamacare rules
Obama himself is so much against Obamacare that he waited until after the 2012 election to release some of its rules.
In April 2013, the New York Times reported:
… even fervent supporters of the law admit that things are going worse than expected.
… the Obama administration didn’t want to release unpopular rules before the election.
Everything is turning out to be more complicated than originally envisioned.
A law that was very confusing has become mind-boggling… Americans are just going to be overwhelmed and befuddled. Many are just going to stay away, even if they are eligible for benefits.
9) Obama illegally bypassed Congress to delay Obamacare’s employer mandate
Here’s another example of how even Obama is against Obamacare.
As the Obamacare law was written, the employer mandate was to begin in January 2014. This is what the law said when it was passed by the House and Senate, and signed by President Obama in 2010.
However, in July 2013, Obama delayed the employer mandate part of Obamacare until January 2015. Obama did this without approval from Congress.
For Obama to change a law that was passed by Congress, without first getting approval from Congress, is a violation of the Presidential oath that Obama took to uphold and defend the Constitution.
What Obama did here is an action of a dictator, not an action of a President whose power is limited by a written constitution.
If Obama can get away with this, then it sets a horribly dangerous precedent, and means that the President can arbitrarily make any change to any law that has been passed by Congress, without first getting approval from Congress.
10) Obama illegally avoided enforcing the required income verification of people who receive subsidies for Obamacare exchanges
Here is yet another example of how Obama is against Obamacare.
Even though Obamacare requires the government to verify the income of people who receive subsidies for Obamacare exchanges, in August 2013 it was reported that Obama would not be verifying their incomes.
You can read the other 331 examples at this link:
https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/obamacare-59/
Look, this is the reality:
No one in Congress who voted for Medicare in 1964 or Medicaid in 1965 believed it was anything other than the first step to nationalization. Neither did the people who voted against it.
The results were unexpected, to say the least. Congress projected $8 billion in spending by 1993, they spent $800 billion instead.
“Obamacare” was an attempt to keep a hybrid private/public system alive, and it is failing. But it’s failing because it tries to do the impossible.
The compromises that have kept Medicare in place this long cannot be sustained. The system is near collapse. The choice will have to be faced, if not in the next five certainly in the next ten years whether to end Medicare or universalize it.
Based on the legislative history of Medicare AFTER 1965, and presuming Senators and Congressmen still get their jobs through elections, I would bet on Medicare for all in the near future.
But both parties have been complicit in concealing the effects of Federal health programs on the budget process, and the eventual outcome of ending regular order, increasing borrowing, devaluation of the currency, and other consequences of the Medicare experiment.
The insidious thing about obamacare is that measures were built into it for it to get more and more extreme down the road. It’s pure evil.
Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the creep for whom this was named. Whose name was purposely left out of this headline
I told them at the time, you can pay for this supposed health care but no good doctor is going to get paid from it.
Anyone could have figured that out a long time ago. But Obama mesmerization is TDS It’s mental illness. It is debilitating
What can you do?
I had forgotten how many folks requested, and received, exemptions from Obamacare.
“Why did Democrats pass a law that forces people to buy health insurance that denies the claims of millions of sick people?”
Because that’s what evil does.
0bembacare is simply a license-to-steal for all of the medical cartel.
“Private healthcare insurance companies are just as good at denying claims.
“Claims adjusters” have been around for a long time.”
In a perfect world where everyone is honest there would be no fraud and therefore no reason to have claims adjusters.
We don’t live in that world.
Seems they were only concerned with everyone HAD to get health insurance. Not so concerned with the actual effectiveness of the coverage.
Interesting. Marking for later...
I’ve been seeing obamacare ads on Amazon Prime. I can deal with a commercial or two but geesh. All obamacare all the time. And they are sickening.
“Meet Mary. She is saving up to go on a big vacation and saving lots of money getting “help” with her insurance premiums.”
“Mark and Christy are saving up to buy a house and qualified for “free” health insurance premiums”
Just sick. I am paying for their premiums.
“health coverage” was given top priority over “health care.” More people have “coverage” as a result of Obamacare - but less health care. Modest copays with lower premiums and now higher premiums with large deductibles even for the most expensive plans, with huge regulations causing greater scrutiny of what care can be paid for.
They could have done those Medicaid expansions without any of the other if it was truly about “helping the poor.” I’m not endorsing that as that has its own issues...but it would have left everyone else’s care alone.
Right - if they can’t afford necessities and need government assistance, they don’t need to be spending money on a vacation. I guess that’s why the rest of us are affording fewer vacations ourselves.
Why did Democrats pass a law that forces people to buy health insurance that denies the claims of millions of sick people?
One word covers it KICKBACKS.
The D.C. democrats didn’t become millionaires by winning the lottery.
And there’s a lot of them.
How completely evil. Should be completely scrapped/nullified by Congress.
Because that’s the way Barak wanted it.
Day 1 remove all exemptions.
This is why I love FR. Great post.
Everything leads back to Wall St, Private Equity and Hedge Funds. The majority of which are led by limo liberals that just want control and money.
For them older people are a liability. It's that simple.
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