So the President’s going to try and sell this thing once again. Apparently, endless rhetoric and campaigning in place of any successful application continues unabated. Let’s take a look at what we’re seeing to date.
The ACA was to include a “state of the art” web portal designed and built for around 70 million dollars. In reality, and even if you add otherwise unrelated costs having to do with the inner “tech” of the site making the figure more like 340 million dollars, the now estimated 700+ million dollar cost bears out the lunacy of this kind of government intrusion. Adding insult to injury, the “Obamacare” site is still plagued with glitches, and looks nothing like an online gateway to one sixth of the U.S. economy. Frankly, most on-line shopping venues make the ACA page look more like my web site… 🙂
The ACA was supposed to provide a pathway to lower cost insurance for those with little or no coverage. What we’re seeing instead is that the true number of folks who actually need or even desire this coverage is far below the 40 million figure the President loves to bandy about at his pep rallies. Moreover, the majority of registrations thus far, are those people who will utilize the system far in excessive of their contributions to it, if any. And those healthier, younger people necessary as a primary funding mechanism for the law, are opting to pay the fine and simply walk away.
And finally, the number of policy cancellations resulting from the ACA roll-out continue to rise, (and will skyrocket when the mandates kick in). Also, the stories of those adversely affected by “Obamacare” far outnumber any small good the huge entitlement law can claim at present, and this is most certainly scaring the daylights out of the (2010) Dems in Congress. So with premiums are actually on the rise, and not declining as the POTUS promised they would, the ACA is looking more and more like what it was always intended to be, a redistribution of healthcare as a path to the European style “single payer” system.
So you tell me Mr. President, is this the Republican’s fault, or is the hard reality you simply refuse to acknowledge as it is not conducive to your intentions or endgame. Buckle up people…
PS: It appears largely unnoticed (or ignored) to this point, that the POTUS is revising his own law as he goes along, a clear violation of the Constitutional process, but completely in keeping with his approach to governing thus far.
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