Posted on 11/11/2013 9:49:41 AM PST by tobyhill
President Barack Obama's signature accomplishment is teetering. The Obamacare website is a national punch line. Millions of Americans, repeatedly reassured by Obama that they could keep their doctors and health plans, are discovering that they can't. Their insurance policies are being canceled. The price of new coverage is substantially higher. The new coverage may force them to choose new doctors. And the law says they have to buy insurance or pay a fine.
People are deeply concerned, and for good reason. This is, as Democratic Sen. Max Baucus famously predicted seven months ago, a "train wreck."
No wonder worried Democratic lawmakers are pelting the White House with suggestions for various changes to Obamacare. Among them: Rescind those cancellations and allow consumers to keep their coverage, even if it doesn't meet Obamacare mandates. Extend the coverage enrollment period and delay the law's mandate that everyone obtain insurance or pay a penalty.
Much of the focus in Washington has been on the political consequences of the Obamacare disaster, whether Democrats are vulnerable and Republicans can take advantage.
No surprise there. Democratic leaders forced the law through Congress without a single Republican vote. The architects of Obamacare brushed aside sharp warnings from tech wizards that the computer system wasn't tested and ready. They piled hundreds of pages of last-minute regulations on insurers. They forced insurers to cancel policies by the thousands because those policies fell short of the soup-to-nuts coverage required by the law.
The American public is having a credibility-shattering debate about the president: Did he not bother to learn the details of the law before he told us we could keep our doctors and our insurance, or did he know the truth and flat-out lie?
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
It wasn’t like this was all a secret a year ago when the Trib endorsed him for a second term.
Government has a place in healthcare. It’s role is similar to the Office of Weights and Measures. If your plan says it covers X, and not Y, it should be clear what X and Y are.
In all honesty, I don’t think that any mortal actually understood the full scope of Obamacare. Obama just wanted his name tied to a full-scale transformation of a major part of American life. The details were unimportant to him— and to the disgusting creatures of his party on Crapitol Hill as well as his horde of zombie-followers.
Do people in Truth or Consequences, NM, support “Obamacare”?
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