Months prior to the the signing of the Affordable Health Care legislation I began to research the subject in depth, or as in depth as one could at that moment in time. I even taught what I had gleaned from my research to a select group of students in a Principles of Leadership class.
The more I read, the more I listen, the more research I do, the more I question the wisdom of the Affordable Health Care Act. I initially questioned the intelligence of Obama, Sebelius, Reid, Pelosi, Biden, and other supporting actors. Obamacare is a fiscal and health care disaster. Its like watching a bad movie with no end in sight, written by an anonymous director and starring a cast of bad actors. Over time, I began to wonder if Obamacare was a remake of the Wizard of Oz. It feels so surreal, yet real. Are we living in a world of make believe? The story line is actually scary. Anyone with foresight knows that a new health care system that relies on young, healthy people paying inordinate sums of insurance premiums is bound to fail. You may ask why would the Federal Government force young and healthy people to get insurance and pay high premiums? The young person's premiums are needed to offset the costs of the millions of people with pre-existing conditions (cancer, HIV, MS etc.) who will enter the pool at the beginning of the new year. I read where a limited plan under the Affordable Health Care Act will cost a healthy person upwards of $5800.00 per year. If a young person opts out, the insurers lose the young and healthy part of their risk pool. If the insurers don't get the ratio they need in the state-based exchanges they're going to be cost prohibitive, because you will have many more sick people and relatively few healthy people. When this happens and it will, insurance premiums will increase. Not only for the sick and lower class but for all of us. As of 1 January, the law requires that if premiums increase, they rise for everyone. This law in turn will push more of the young and healthy who feel they do not need the burden of expensive health insurance out of the pool. As insurance premiums rise uninsured Americans will choose to pay the mandated penalty which costs far less than the required premium. And should this occur, insurers will have to raise premiums even more to subsidize the expenses of the less healthy population they must cover under law.. This in turn, will cause additional people to forgo insurance and pay the fine. And the cycle continues. And, who could blame the young for opting out?
The above paragraph is but a condensed synopsis of Obamacare. If, one looks carefully at the product, does not one see a program that was bound for failure? There are some who claim that despite the promises and expectations of "cheaper and better care for all..." The Affordable Care Act has but one purpose...to fail. The ultimate objective is a government takeover of the entire health care industry. Do you suppose there are people in Washington who knew Obamacare could not work and that it was too expensive of an endeavor for our economy to sustain? Do you suppose these same people knew we would have to go to a single payer system where the government controls everyone's lives? It appears to me that the likelihood of Obamacare suceeding is about the same odds as me winning a million dollar jackpot in a Las Vegas Casino while playing a penny slot machine. I believe, that just maybe, Obamacare was born to fail. Its already failing according to many sources. And, the facts speak for themselves.
Did not Obama state in a 2003 address to the AFL-CIO "I happened to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country of the world, spending 14% of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that's what I'd like to see. But as you know we may not get there immediately."?
I see two red flags in the above statement. The federal government is the "single payer" and "single payer" means bureaucrats will insert themselves into our personal decisions as they relate not only to our health but to our financial and personal lives.
Mr. Obama has said that the Affordable Health Care Act has nothing to do with the budget.. But over the next decade, this unpopular law will add almost two trillion dollars to the debt and will cost trillions beyond that. Now, if I can see the end result of the implementation of this program, why cannot the producers of this ill conceived health program recognize the same? The directors may very well have known what they were doing. It appears the screenplay was planned, the script written, and the actors selected prior to the audition. I believe that a select few Washington Progressives Elitists and their marionettes intentionally led us down the "Yellow Brick Road," in order to facilitate a takeover by the federal government of our health care system.
Enough speculation and intrigue for this posting. The reviews are in. The movie is bad. The public has spoken and it matters not. The show will go on. It is only a matter of which show we actually pay to see. One last thought; can you imagine Soros as the Wizard, Obama as the Scare Crow, Biden as the Lion, Reid as the Tin Man, Sebelius as Dorthy, and Pelosi as Toto?
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