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Posted on: October 6, 2016 at 14:09:59 CT
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Left Admits ObamaCare Is Broken — But Proposed 'Fix' Would Be Even Worse
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Big Gov't Failure: ObamaCare is failing and desperately in need of a major fix. That's not us talking. President Obama, Hillary Clinton and even the New York Times all now admit that the Affordable Care Act has failed. Lesson learned? Hardly. They want to double down on their failure.
In an interview with New York Magazine last weekend, President Obama admitted the now-obvious: That his health care reform has "real problems."
Even so, he called the problems "eminently fixable," suggesting more subsidies, enrolling more people on Medicaid and more government price controls to limit soaring costs would do the trick. But he's got it exactly backward: His proposed "fixes" aren't the solution to the problem — they are the problem.
Obama isn't the only one to suddenly become honest about the ObamaCare implosion. The New York Times' Robert Pear wrote last weekend that "Obama's signature domestic achievement will almost certainly have to change to survive." And yes, that's an understatement.
As others have noted, Hillary Clinton has gone mum on the subject of ObamaCare, the national health care plan she once vociferously championed. Indeed, she barely mentions it on the stump. Looking at recent polls, it's little wonder why.
But she too regards ObamaCare as a failure. And has for a long time. In September of 2015, in a moment of private candor while speaking to a donor group, she wasn't so reticent, admitting that ObamaCare had big problems and vowing, "I'm gonna fix some of the things that need fixing."
Recent polls show ObamaCare is highly unpopular. And a new poll conducted by Toluna for Freedom Partners shows that 55% of Americans oppose the Obama administration's spending of taxpayer money on insurance bailouts. And 72% said they want lawmakers to "focus on fixing actual problems with health care rather than using taxpayer money" to bail out insurers.
It's become a huge liability for the Democratic Party in 2016. And the news just gets worse.
Just a week ago, the Government Accountability Office accused Health and Human Services of breaking the law by using $2 billion in reinsurance premiums collected in 2014 to subsidize insurers, instead of sending it to the Treasury Department, as the law requires. That's how Obama has tried to "fix" things. By breaking the law.
But ObamaCare can't be fixed.
Insurers, hit with losses, are leaving the exchanges set up under the program, and in 2017 four states — Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Wyoming — will have just one insurer available for all their citizens. ObamaCare has devastated the health insurance market.
Meanwhile, state-level deductibles and premiums are soaring at double-digit rates — Minnesota's health care commissioner, for instance, just called his state's situation a "real emergency" and proposed premium hikes of 50% to 67% next year — while enrollment in the insurance exchanges has lagged original forecasts. Worse, those who do enroll tend to be older and sicker — young people are staying away in droves. That's the main reason why health insurers' losses and health care costs have risen far above projections.
Has the left finally got religion on ObamaCare? Will they really "fix it," as they all promise?
Of course not. By their own frequent admission, they wanted a British-style single-payer health care program all along, a takeover of the entire system. They want to send you to the health care equivalent of the U.S. Postal Service for life-and-death decisions about your care.
If you want to know what "single payer" looks like, look no further than the federal government's malfunctioning Veterans Administration health care system and Indian Health Service, both plagued by patient deaths, substandard care for their patients, long waiting lists and soaring costs.
ObamaCare may be the most cynical piece of legislation ever passed into law. Democrats knew when it was created in 2010 that it would fail. They knew the law would destroy the private market for health insurance, and that they could subsequently count on a compliant and ignorant media to parrot their condemnations of "big insurers" and the private sector for the health care fraud known as ObamaCare.
They passed a fatally flawed program, and now ask you to give them total control over your health care to "fix" its problems through the benign-sounding "Medicare for All" -- that is, socialized medicine. And please remember: Medicare, as currently constituted, is not a success. It is insolvent.
America's health care system was once the envy of the world. Now it's a joke. Americans who want to restore a functioning health care marketplace that controls costs and serves actual needs, not imaginary ones, should remember this on Nov. 8.
Left Admits ObamaCare Is Broken — But Proposed 'Fix' Would Be Even Worse
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Big Gov't Failure: ObamaCare is failing and desperately in need of a major fix. That's not us talking. President Obama, Hillary Clinton and even the New York Times all now admit that the Affordable Care Act has failed. Lesson learned? Hardly. They want to double down on their failure.
In an interview with New York Magazine last weekend, President Obama admitted the now-obvious: That his health care reform has "real problems."
Even so, he called the problems "eminently fixable," suggesting more subsidies, enrolling more people on Medicaid and more government price controls to limit soaring costs would do the trick. But he's got it exactly backward: His proposed "fixes" aren't the solution to the problem — they are the problem.
Obama isn't the only one to suddenly become honest about the ObamaCare implosion. The New York Times' Robert Pear wrote last weekend that "Obama's signature domestic achievement will almost certainly have to change to survive." And yes, that's an understatement.
As others have noted, Hillary Clinton has gone mum on the subject of ObamaCare, the national health care plan she once vociferously championed. Indeed, she barely mentions it on the stump. Looking at recent polls, it's little wonder why.
But she too regards ObamaCare as a failure. And has for a long time. In September of 2015, in a moment of private candor while speaking to a donor group, she wasn't so reticent, admitting that ObamaCare had big problems and vowing, "I'm gonna fix some of the things that need fixing."
Recent polls show ObamaCare is highly unpopular. And a new poll conducted by Toluna for Freedom Partners shows that 55% of Americans oppose the Obama administration's spending of taxpayer money on insurance bailouts. And 72% said they want lawmakers to "focus on fixing actual problems with health care rather than using taxpayer money" to bail out insurers.
It's become a huge liability for the Democratic Party in 2016. And the news just gets worse.
Just a week ago, the Government Accountability Office accused Health and Human Services of breaking the law by using $2 billion in reinsurance premiums collected in 2014 to subsidize insurers, instead of sending it to the Treasury Department, as the law requires. That's how Obama has tried to "fix" things. By breaking the law.
But ObamaCare can't be fixed.
Insurers, hit with losses, are leaving the exchanges set up under the program, and in 2017 four states — Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Wyoming — will have just one insurer available for all their citizens. ObamaCare has devastated the health insurance market.
Meanwhile, state-level deductibles and premiums are soaring at double-digit rates — Minnesota's health care commissioner, for instance, just called his state's situation a "real emergency" and proposed premium hikes of 50% to 67% next year — while enrollment in the insurance exchanges has lagged original forecasts. Worse, those who do enroll tend to be older and sicker — young people are staying away in droves. That's the main reason why health insurers' losses and health care costs have risen far above projections.
Has the left finally got religion on ObamaCare? Will they really "fix it," as they all promise?
Of course not. By their own frequent admission, they wanted a British-style single-payer health care program all along, a takeover of the entire system. They want to send you to the health care equivalent of the U.S. Postal Service for life-and-death decisions about your care.
If you want to know what "single payer" looks like, look no further than the federal government's malfunctioning Veterans Administration health care system and Indian Health Service, both plagued by patient deaths, substandard care for their patients, long waiting lists and soaring costs.
ObamaCare may be the most cynical piece of legislation ever passed into law. Democrats knew when it was created in 2010 that it would fail. They knew the law would destroy the private market for health insurance, and that they could subsequently count on a compliant and ignorant media to parrot their condemnations of "big insurers" and the private sector for the health care fraud known as ObamaCare.
They passed a fatally flawed program, and now ask you to give them total control over your health care to "fix" its problems through the benign-sounding "Medicare for All" -- that is, socialized medicine. And please remember: Medicare, as currently constituted, is not a success. It is insolvent.
America's health care system was once the envy of the world. Now it's a joke. Americans who want to restore a functioning health care marketplace that controls costs and serves actual needs, not imaginary ones, should remember this on Nov. 8.
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Hey ras, looks like even your cohorts in stupidity are - GA Tiger MU - 10/6 14:09:59
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