By
William L. Garvin
Is
there any doubt that the Affordable Care Act is nothing but bait and switch, a
pig in a poke, an absolute sham sold under false pretenses, and a massive fraud
perpetrated upon the American people by “progressives” with malice of
forethought? “If you like your doctor,
you can keep your doctor, period.”
Wrong. “If you like your health
insurance plan, you can keep your health insurance plan, period.” Wrong.
“The Affordable Care Act will create four million jobs, four hundred
thousand immediately.” Wrong. “Obamacare will dramatically improve
Medicare.” Wrong. “I will not sign a bill that adds one dime to
the federal debt.” Wrong. “The average family will have their insurance
premiums reduced by $2,500 per year.”
Wrong. The Democrats unilaterally
passed this law and as we finally get to read and find out what’s in it, the
news gets worse and worse.
Even
if you think that government is capable of and is responsible for planning,
implementing, and controlling your health care, you must have the same mounting
concerns that the majority of your fellow Americans do. There is no denying that the rollout of
Obamacare has been an unmitigated failure.
Dems can do their best to rationalize the absurdly expensive, absurdly malfunctioning,
absurdly complicated website as a “glitch” or a “bump in the road,” but there
is no putting lipstick on this pig. Predictably
that is what happens when the nanny state formulates a “one size fits all” plan
that the private insurance companies must offer which must include unnecessary
and unwanted benefits that everyone is forced to purchase or be “taxed” for their
noncompliance. We have already seen over
six million plans cancelled and no one knows how many more notices are still to
come. Unfortunately, the Congressional
Budget Office says that after all is said and done, there will still be thirty
million Americans who are uninsured.
After all the angst, after all the disruption, after all the turmoil and
hardship, Obamacare does not solve the problem of the uninsured and does
absolutely nothing to improve the quality of health care or the availability of
health care. Adding political insult to
injury, Democrat political puppets now redefine your loss of personal freedom
as “liberating”! It is now somehow laudable
in liberal la la land to work less in order to reduce your income so you too
can receive a government subsidy! Pray
tell what happens when the worker bees morph into dependent parasites and the
symbiotic relationship collapses?
If
this government-centric future is not frightening enough, delve further into
the insidious nature of the law itself.
Charles Kesler, a Distinguished Professor of Government at Claremont
McKenna College singles out the Independent Payment Advisory Board, aka “death
panel” in the Act. The IPAB is fifteen
people appointed by the President. They
are to recommend “efficiencies” regarding Medicare. Typically, such efficiencies are accomplished
by rationing or reducing payments to doctors and hospitals to the point that no
one will perform them. According to
Professor Kesler’s analysis, “Unless both houses of Congress overrule IPAB by
passing their own equal or greater cuts to Medicare, IPAB’s proposals
automatically become law.” Here’s where
the perfidy ensues. According to the
Act, no resolution to repeal the IPAB can be made before January 1, 2017, or
after February 1, 2017, nor can it take effect until 2020! In effect, the IPAB is exempt from the
Constitution for the next six years except for a single month! What sort of Machiavellian intent is behind
this machination? Skeptical minds may
conclude that the entire charade is merely a stepping stone to single-payer,
government run health care as advocated by the President, the Vice-President,
the Senate Majority Leader, and the Minority House Leader, all Democrats.
Also keep in mind that Section 1342 of the
Affordable Care Act forces taxpayers to make insurers whole for most of the
losses they incur selling policies on the Obamacare exchanges through 2016.
This “absorption of costs” (don’t ever call it a bailout!) is meant to hide the
full scope of the economic failure of Obamacare until after the next
presidential election.
That’s also the reason the President “with his phone and his pen”
delayed the mandate to provide Obamacare-compliant insurance for some
employers. With a stroke of his
presidential pen, he changed established law from “will”, “shall”, and “must”
to “may”, “might”, and “maybe.” Welcome
to the “fundamental transformation” of America.
It’s good to be king!
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