Our president made a speech today to talk up support for his "Signature Legislation" affectionately known as Obamacare. Now, having already experienced the joy that he promised to bring (higher premiums, less care for that premium and higher co-pays) despite the fact that I already had health insurance and was very happy with it, I can say that I read his words with a bit of a jaundiced eye.
He made a statement in his speech that showed either monumental lack understanding of the law he signed or that he is a complete moron. I will not debate it, but I do believe that he gives far too good a speech to be a complete moron. He states "even those who didn't vote for him are going to enroll." Well Skippy, it seems that your prediction is correct because your law does not really allow people to decide to not participate. While I disagree with the supreme court, and I would hope for Congress in the future to legislate so that this type of utter slap in the face of civil liberties doesn't happen again, they did rule that this fiasco is a tax and one cannot opt out of taxes. And since you made the penalties painfully eye-watering for most, they will have no choice but to participate. Or be penalized by the IRS, and then go to jail when they can't pay the exorbitant tax penalty that you will never be subject to anyway.
And then he goes on to downplay the fact that the whole thing is not ready to go on Oct 1 as planned. He termed them "minor glitches". An estimated 10 million Latino's will not be able to use the Spanish site for the first few weeks. Anyone who has dealt with the government knows that a few weeks is a unit of time usually equal to a few months. Small businesses can't sign up at all. I guess small glitches are all in the eye of the beholder. Having see several presentations on this piece of legislation (because I have a responsible employer who wanted to show how this will affect us) I can certifiably say that this is a mess, Mr Obama. There are no actual cost controls and the insurance companies can charge what they like. Further, there are no cost controls in place and the health care providers can charge what they like. You have this grand illusion that more people participating will magically drive the cost down. Unfortunately for your lovely thought process, we still live in a capitalistic economy and both the insurance companies and the health care industry are for profit. All you did was use a government hammer to force more people to give them money. While I do agree that your political opponents are getting desperate and crazy (and likely already were) the reality is that I see no difference between you and them. The only good I see coming from your administration at this point is that it will end.
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