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The Obamacare Debacle. It's Certain Failure is all too Predictable.
National Review ^ | 11/15/2012 | Michael Tanner

Posted on 11/15/2012 7:02:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/15/2012 7:02:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“Its” (not “It’s”).


2 posted on 11/15/2012 7:08:07 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Apostrophe catastrophe.)
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To: SeekAndFind

OK, so when they take away my affordable catastrophic insurance and force me to buy unaffordable Obamacare insurance that I can’t afford and thus won’t buy, incurring their mandated tax-penalty which I won’t pay, thereby incurring their wrath and consequences, impounding my property and sending me off to the Gulag . . . will I get to come back if it collapses? Or will it collapse sooner rather than later?


3 posted on 11/15/2012 7:09:05 AM PST by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Just getting ready to post the same thing.


4 posted on 11/15/2012 7:09:28 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Charles Henrickson

Maybe he DID mean “it is failure”... or not.


5 posted on 11/15/2012 7:10:04 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

The failure is planned.


6 posted on 11/15/2012 7:10:26 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

Every business person I know says the cost is soaring, they are seriously depressed and cutting back business plans, and they are talking about dropping employee coverage because paying the voucher fine is cheaper.

So the American people are taking it in the back, a complete lie and disaster to insure Obama’s non working voters.


7 posted on 11/15/2012 7:11:32 AM PST by Andrei Bulba (No Obama, no way!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s not supposed to work. It’s supposed to fail, forcing single-payer. Duh.


8 posted on 11/15/2012 7:11:53 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: SeekAndFind

It was intended to fail.

It ony paves the way for a single-payer system.


9 posted on 11/15/2012 7:12:13 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank you to all the dumb asses that put this maggot back in office.


10 posted on 11/15/2012 7:12:35 AM PST by Marathoner (Benghazi = Watergate on steroids)
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dumb?

Maybe - lazy thieves, definitely.


11 posted on 11/15/2012 7:13:15 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

Please fix the apostrophe. I can’t read an article with a glaring error in the title.


12 posted on 11/15/2012 7:13:26 AM PST by dinodino
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To: SeekAndFind

oh for Pete’s sakes it Cato institute, get something more respectable


13 posted on 11/15/2012 7:13:42 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SeekAndFind

The ironic thing in my mind is that the Health Care issue was one that really needed to be addressed. If 0bama had taken the time and examined each part and it’s impact logically, potentially a good law may have come out of it. There are some aspects, the “pre-existing conditions” clause for example, that even the most conservative of my friends and acquaintances support. However, the way it was rammed down our throats and the impact, not only on the Health Care Industry, but the economy, is intolerable. The result is that the entire monstrosity must be nullified.


14 posted on 11/15/2012 7:14:47 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Remember the Heroic SEALs of Benghazi and DEMAND a Full Accounting!!!!)
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Obamacare is bound to be chaotic, but will people draw the proper conclusion? Will they conclude that government involvement in our health care system is inherently chaotic and costly? Will they conclude that government should stay out of the health care field? Will they consider ending Medicare and Medicaid?

Or, will they just put up with the chaos until they get used to it?

15 posted on 11/15/2012 7:17:01 AM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bump


16 posted on 11/15/2012 7:18:00 AM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: Tau Food
Or, will they just put up with the chaos until they get used to it?

The dirty little secret is that Congress will bow to the public pressure and pain created by Obamacare and eliminate the cost savings measures. They will not reduce payments to doctors and hospitals further increasing the costs and adding to the debt and deficit. The Dems will do whatever they can to fix and save Obamacare. In the process they will wreck the healthcare system and bankrupt the country.

The last thing we needed was another entitlement program. SS and Medicare now represent a $60 trillion unfunded liability. We have 70 million now on Medicaid and Obamacare will add 18 million more to the system. Add to that an aging population that is retiring at 10,000 a day for the next 20 years. Health care costs are going up period.

Obamacare will be the albatross around Obama and the Dems' neck. Maybe we will get a Rep who can really detail the disaster that Obamacare is and will be. Romney was hamstrung in that regard.

17 posted on 11/15/2012 7:30:49 AM PST by kabar
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To: The Sons of Liberty

This is what happens when you nominate a candidate that effectively took health care off the table as a campaign issue.


18 posted on 11/15/2012 7:35:16 AM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Tau Food
Or, will they just put up with the chaos until they get used to it?

I wonder if employers will "get used to" the new plan? Today, if I am sick and need to take time off of work to see a doctor, I can usually get in and get out in a day's time. Tomorrow, I might still get sick, but I might wait days to get in to a doctor. And perhaps longer, if specialized treatment is required. How long will employers be tolerant of this inefficiency?

19 posted on 11/15/2012 7:36:33 AM PST by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: SeekAndFind

The best bet for defeating Obamacare at this point is to start a movement to have it apply equally to *all* Americans, including our worthless leadership and, of course, all union workers.


20 posted on 11/15/2012 7:36:35 AM PST by The Duke
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