That Obamacare has failed so fantastically in every respect has taken center stage.
Disaster" embarrassment" humiliating" and train wreck" are just a few of the colorful terms being used to describe it. The Obama administrations incompetent half-billion-dollar rollout of its incompetent multi-trillion-dollar signature achievement is but a tragic metaphor for this mans entire presidency. (Its not hyperbole when its true.)
Nearly three weeks in and the utopian promise of affordable care" for all has yielded but a handful of folks whove even been able to sign up for this clinic in socialism.
That Obamacare something billed as a health-care panacea for the collective is something that the collective neither asked for nor wanted is now the back story. That it has failed so fantastically in every respect has taken center stage.
Reuters reports: In its third week of operations the Obamacare website continues to experience problems which government officials say they are working day and night to repair. Even allies of the Obama administration have been highly critical with former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs calling it excruciatingly embarrassing and calling for some people to be fired."
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus D-Mont. was both a sponsor of and cheerleader for Obamacare. He saw this coming. Once he read this 2400-page regulatory monstrosity he came to the same conclusion as did anyone else with two synapses to rub together. He called the implementation of Obamacare a huge train wreck" and announced that rather than resulting in his re-election Obamas pet government health-care albatross would sink him into retirement.
Still the few who have somehow managed to enroll in Obamacare are discovering to their dismay what many of us have warned all along: There is nothing affordable" about the paradoxically named Affordable Care Act." Though government geeks may be working day and night" to fix the website no amount of work will fix Obamacare itself. Its unfixable. The only solution is to total-out this jalopy.
Even the Obamanistas are waking up. Just days before its launch Politico lamented The Obamacare that consumers will finally be able to sign up for next week (they werent) is a long way from the health plan President Barack Obama first pitched to the nation.
Millions of low-income Americans wont receive coverage. Many workers at small businesses wont get a choice of insurance plans right away. Large employers wont need to provide insurance for another year. Far more states than expected wont run their own insurance marketplaces. And a growing number of workers wont get to keep their employer-provided coverage."
The presidents like-minded base the hardcore left has also become restless. In a recent End of Day" report Gary Bauer founder of Campaign for Working Families gives one example from the left-wing Daily Kos.
Bauer writes: Obamacares continued horrendous rollout (See next item) will likely cause the scales to fall from many eyes. Even some liberals are questioning Obamacare. Warning: Graphic language. We need to make sure that friends and family members who bought into the hype about hope and change know that it doesnt have to be this way. We can do better."
The good news if you can call it that is that Obamacare is non-discriminating. Its putting the screws to every American rich and poor Democrat and Republican liberal and conservative.
In the above-referenced Daily Kos piece headlined Obamacare will double my monthly premium (according to Kaiser)" liberal blogger Tirge Caps" captures the shock experienced by most Americans even progressive" Americans over the promise of Obamacare vs. the reality of Obamacare:
My wife and I just got our updates from Kaiser telling us what our 2014 rates will be. Her monthly has been $168 this year mine $150. We have a high deductible. We are generally healthy people who dont go to the doctor often. I barely ever go. The insurance is in case of a major catastrophe.
Well now because of Obamacare my wifes rate is going to $302 per month and mine is jumping to $284.
I am canceling insurance for us and I am not paying any f***ing penalty. What the hell kind of reform is this?
Oh OK if we qualify we can get some government assistance. Great. So now I have to jump through another hoop to just chisel some of this off. And we dont qualify anyway so whats the point?
I never felt too good about how this was passed and what it entailed but I figured if it saved Americans money I could go along with it.
I dont know what to think now. This appears in my experience to not be a reform for the people.
What am I missing?
I realize I will probably get screamed at for posting this but I cant imagine I am the only Californian who just received a rate increase from Kaiser based on these new laws.
Not only will you get screamed at Mr. Caps but you may want to prepare for an unexpected IRS audit. America feels your pain my friend.
The proof is in the pudding.
And Obamacare is poison pudding indeed.