Posted on 03/20/2014 6:34:32 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Health Care: Some think Democrats designed ObamaCare to fail so they could get to a single payer system. Seems a bit extreme. But it does help explain why they made the individual mandate so easy to avoid.
According to ObamaCare's architects, the individual mandate is key to making the law work.
The mandate is supposed to force young and healthy people to enroll so they can subsidize premiums for the older and sicker. Otherwise, ObamaCare rates will spiral out of control. (Which already appears to be happening, according to TheHill.com.)
The mandate is also supposed to prevent gaming the system — wherein people buy insurance only after they're sick, knowing they can get an ObamaCare policy at heavily subsidized rates.
Even before the administration's raft of changes to weaken the insurance mandate, ObamaCare already let millions off the mandate hook.
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Easy. Because it lacks dental care..
Ponzi scheme.
My guess is yes.
Now you’ve kicked over an ant hill!
Well played!!!
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Well, hell! No wonder the insurance companies were all for UbamaDon'tCare.
Talk about a sweetheart deal.
It isn’t, and never HAS been about health care. It is all about CONTROL.
“Some think Democrats designed ObamaCare to fail so they could get to a single payer system.”
That’s what Barney Frank said.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln
The stench of cronyism and corruption has engulfed the country. Obamacare is an aggressive, malignant cancer and I don’t see anybody (Republicans included) with the brass to cut it out (repeal). We’ll get lots of chemo and radiation (fixes) which will still make everybody sick and prolong the agony, but I think we’re going to have to “live” with it until we die (personally and as a country). The only circumstance I see changing the situation is flat out mass revolt by the populace (and I’m not talking about at the voting booth) and how likely is that?
90% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Same with 80% of internet quotes attributed to famous historic figures.
Abraham Lincoln: “80% of all internet claims are made up”.
Exactly. We have been brainwashed into looking to government to fix problems. The problems government created. It never occurs to us that that might be the plan all along.
Ronald Reagan: "The scariest sentence in the English language is, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.'"
Ronald Reagan: "In this present crisis, government is not the answer to our problems, government IS the problem."
Democrats didn’t design this to fail... they’re just stupid.
That’s always the question about the left - are they stupid or evil or both?
There is another possibility, and it applies to both the sheeperals and the elitists.
They start from a wrong assumption, and logically conclude the wrong solutions to every problem. They will always side with evil over good, the failed over the successful, the ugly over the beautiful, because they start from the wrong place and end up in the wrong place, though they follow a logical and perceived “good intention” route to their conclusions.
I noticed that this year’s Turbo Tax software asks you if you have health insurance, even though the proof isn’t “required” until filing your 2014 return. A thinly veiled sales pitch to steer you to insurance websites.
No question with your last statement, but they know how to hire political operative who are NOT stupid.
The failure was a foregone conclusion. The strategy is to blame Republicans and conservatives for the failures for not allowing a more robust health care bill to be passed (total control, a.k.a. "single payer") and then break the law in an effort to make it appear to work, while accusing opponents of sabotage by not allowing Obama to change the law unhindered.
If the Obama Socialized Health Insurance Tax, (OSHIT), policy fee is paid to private insurance companies, then how does the IRS get its cut of the fee?
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