I guess we will have to go with the man who most of this country thought was the right man for the job. Obama. ObamaCare it is then.
Deal with it.
Power is temporary. Eventually the BS is outweighed by the Truth, and Power shifts.
When it does, and it will, it is quite possible that Obamacare will become dust in the wind.
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My fear, however, is that by the time the temporary power has morphed into something more rational and less authoritarian and oppressive, the damage will have been done for the foreseeable future. We have been seeing fewer and fewer, proportionately, Americans entering medical school as the federal government has become more and more intrusive into the process via Medicare, Medicaid, mandates, and regulation. And it is THAT which has been the single larger factor driving up costs beyond the reach of the uninsured. Yet the truly committed seem to have faith that total government control would fix that.
It is almost impossible to find a general practitioner who treats the whole body any more. I have been spending most of my time at the hospital with a sick relative this past week. During the week she has seen I believe eleven different doctors for this or that. And not one of them was American born. Several of her nurses have been foreign born. They come here because the reduced government pay here looks good to them compared to where they came from. But more American doctors are leaving or contemplating leaving the profession than are choosing it these days.
Hospital staffs continue to cut back. The understaffing was apparent and appalling to me during this entire past week. (I say this as somebody who has worked a lot of years in America's hospitals.)
And then you look at the effects on the population as a whole. The big corporations have always provided benefit packages because they cannot compete for the best people otherwise. So of course most were behind Obamacare 100% as they knew it would disadvantage their smaller competition.
But as the time for full implementation approaches, their smaller competition are cutting work forces, cancelling expansions, and utilizing more and more part time workers to avoid the more onerous provisions of Obamacare.
Further, costs cannot help but increase as millions more Americans are covered under government insurance. And. . . .
WASHINGTON (AP) — Insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Barack Obama's overhaul, the nation's leading group of financial risk analysts has estimated.
That's likely to increase premiums for at least some Americans buying individual plans.
The report by the Society of Actuaries could turn into a big headache for the Obama administration at a time when many parts of the country remain skeptical about the Affordable Care Act.
While some states will see medical claims costs per person decline, the report concluded the overwhelming majority will see double-digit increases in their individual health insurance markets, where people purchase coverage directly from insurers. . . .
Obamacare Will Cause Medical Claims Costs To Jump 32 Percent: Study
And we haven't gotten into all the exemptions for Obama, members of Congress, federal employees, unions, and some big donors to Democratic campaigns--so many of these that it cannot help but affect the whole.
If our elected legislators had any common sense or compassion they would repeal this boondoggle immediately before the U.S. health system has been destroyed beyond repair.
