…pile up:
To recap, then: Before, during, and after passage, Americans were promised that Obamacare was going to lower premiums for “everyone” (the goal of merely maintaining premiums being too modest); it was not going to interfere with anybody’s health care or health insurance if they already had it; and it was not going change anybody’s patient-doctor relationship. The message was unmistakable: All the government wanted to do was extend health insurance to people who didn’t have it. This wouldn’t affect you. No need to worry. Period. Move along.
In addition to the totally partisan nature of this thing, one of the other many things that distinguishes it from previous entitlements is the many grandiose lies that were told about it to sell it, going back to the president’s first campaign.
It’s a marvelous scam. Mandate everyone sign up for health insurance, then declare everyone covered.
I think if you asked 100 senators or congressmen who voted for Obamacare to explain how it would improve health care for people you’d get 100 different answers, many of them in no way connected to what was actually in the bill.
“I think if you asked 100 senators or congressmen who voted for Obamacare to explain how it would improve health care for people you’d get 100 different answers,…”
Roughly half of those would say “Not at all.”
The other half (Dems) wouldn’t have a clue but the spin would be dizzying.
Roughly half of those would say “Not at all.”
The other half (Dems) wouldn’t have a clue but the spin would be dizzying.
Since no Republicans voted for this abomination (and a few dozen Democrats voted against it, too), you’d have to find 50 Democrats who not only voted for it but were honest enough to admit it’s a bad idea. Good luck with that.
Hi larry,
Well he said “senators or congressmen” so I guess I was responding to the 100 senators. Of which roughly half voted for the atrocity (the Dems) and the other half did not.
But you’re right if you are choosing from the House.
To be fair, government healthcare is always launched with grandiose claims about how much money it will save and how people will be much healthier as a result. In Britain, for example, 1940s politicians were claiming that the the lovely new National Health Service might be expensive to start with, but after a few years people would be so much healthier that costs would drop dramatically.
Of course, it never actually works out that way.
Government cost projections seldom have any basis in reality.
This is because politicians forget that the people have a vote (other than election day) and will not necessarily behave as the politicians think they ought to.
Which of course leads to some politicians deciding to inflict pain on the people to bend behavior.
All of which was and is thoroughly predictable.