The actual Obamacare statute, as the Affordable Care Act is
commonly called, was a disaster from the start – a hodgepodge of tons of stuff,
much nonsensible, pasted in by various Democrat congressional staffers and Democrat
lobbyists. No one actually read it all,
and probably no one, no one, read even most of it.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat Speaker of the House at the time, infamously
said then that the law must be passed so we can find out what’s in it. Rational critics knew it would be a disaster,
and, in reality, so did the Democrat puppet masters who pushed for it and
forced its passage. For those Democrats,
the expectation was that the whole thing would fall apart and pave the way for
a completely government-run system.
Aetna, a large national health insurer (if what is in
reality a medical care benefit plan without risk-based pricing can be called in
any way “insurance”) just announced it is withdrawing from most Obamacare
exchanges because of significant financial losses. Some say now that this is evidence that
Obamacare is a failure.
But to say that Obamacare is a failure is to not understand its actual purpose. If the purpose of Obamacare is correctly seen
as an intentional, unstable transitional state primarily designed to hook
people on subsidies and the illusion of cheap, comprehensive medical care, such
that upon collapse the masses will clamor for a complete government take-over
to save their “health care,” then Obamacare so far has been a success.
R Balsamo
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