Posted on 09/20/2010 3:05:14 AM PDT by Scanian
President Obama prom ised that his health reform would "fix" our rising med ical costs and a growing legion of uninsured Americans priced out of coverage.
Fix it in which direction?
Data out last week shows that the price of insurance is rising even faster than before, the number of uninsured Americans is spiraling upward, and the choices people have of doctors and health plans are being sharply constrained as a result.
Welcome to ObamaCare, Year One. This is the change we should start believing in.
The Obama team blames the recession or the "greedy" insurance industry for these ills. But managed-care firms are simply passing along ObamaCare's higher costs, and the recession can't account for all of these setbacks.
The irony is Obama seems certain to run for re-election in 2012 in a country where far fewer people have health coverage than before he tinkered with the system, and those with insurance find themselves paying more money for less.
If Democrats think the Obama health plan is hard to campaign on in this year's political cycle, just wait until the next election.
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Comrades in arms.
Crap, I just puked all over my screen.
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