Healthcare!!!

The Obama Administration has repeatably told the media, and the American people, that the Affordable Healthcare Act was designed to better peoples lives. Too provide better care at lower costs for all Americans.  They've made it very clear that the new healthcare law, along with it's timing, isn't political, and has a presence that exists merely to represent the people.  They wanted us all to experience the amazing deal that was being offered, and of course couldn't stand to see us wait any further.  I guess this means that the go ahead with the roll out wasn't at all for political reasons, but only in-order to benefit the people.

In reality, the Obama administration new damn-well that the Affordable Healthcare Act wasn't ready.  In March of 2013 McKinsey & Co, a private consulting firm, compiled a report dealing with the subject matter of whether or not the exchange would be ready for the set launch date.  The report was filled with red flags and went on to say that without the existence of multiple glitches and errors,the set launch date wouldn't be feasible.   

So if the President and his administration knew about all the current problems that we're facing today back in March, why in the hell did they go through it?  I mean, the government is supposed to serve the people.

 Now I know that all my liberal friends out there think that this administration can do no wrong, and that it's all the right wingers who're making them look bad.

ABSOLUTELY!

If it weren't for those pesky conservatives the government would surely start working right! 

Just know this, the Obama administration knew that millions of Americans were going to be dropped from their insurance policies after the launch of the healthcare act. They also knew that the exchange wouldn't be ready in time to meet the demands of the people.  A portion of these policy holders were receiving critical care and, still today, haven't received treatment because the government is dealing with ongoing technical issues.  They also knew that premium costs, on average, were going to double, and that the extra cost wouldn't provide any additional beneficial care.  

They told us that its a

GOOD!

deal, and that we should

APPRECIATE!

such efficient care.  I'm ever so

GRATEFUL!

that we're so well taken care of.....       

  

The "Confused" Citizen

The most recent post from The Bemused Citizen is a critique on my defending of Ted Cruz in my last blog post.  I have to say that I think my point was misunderstood.  The "money bags" that the critique refers to, are actually a large group of voters from the state of Texas, whom which understand the devastation that the Affordable Healthcare Act has on our Macro-Economy.  The fact that the website doesn't work and that millions of Americans haven't shown any interest of even signing up is just an annoyance before the true problems occur.
The Affordable Healthcare act, under it's current design, cannot sustain itself without forcing all individual policy holders off of private insurance and onto a different policy through the exchange, where premium costs are more in order to pay for the acceptance of pre-existing conditions, and by forcing individuals to pay high tax penalties if they opted out of coverage which, by 2016, people making between thirty-eight thousand and eight thousand a year will be charged $695.  That number will have to rise if people decide to stay on private policies, which is why the Affordable Care act is designed to force people onto government policies.
It also puts Employers in a tough spot on how to deal with higher premium costs.  Most small businesses have already dropped under the employee minimum to avoid paying higher premiums. Those individuals that were dropped will either pay a tax penalty, buy private insurance, or sign up for Obamacare.  In that situation private insurance is out of the question because they can no longer offer discounted premiums because they don't meet the standards set forth in the Affordable Healthcare Act.
So far, if you are under the age of twenty-eight, single, healthy and don't have any dependents, you haven't signed up for health insurance and most likely have no intentions to do so in the future.  It is that demographic that has the largest percentage of individuals with no pre-existing conditions.  If those people fail to sign up and pay into the system, the much larger demographic of the elderly and disabled with medicare/medicaid benefits will dominate the system; the amount being paid into the system won't cover the amount of care that's being provided.  If that situation were to occur, care would have to be rationed among those of importance.  How that will be decided is unknown, however one would assume it would be an administrative agency of sort.
The private sector of the Health Industry is slowly being bankrupted due to the false promise of the President that individual plans could remain the same.  The most important thing to realize is that the original debate over healthcare was that it was too expensive and that was why people were taking the risk of not acquiring health insurance.  All policies thus far have increased in price and the President justifies that because he claims that we're better off with the new policies.  I guess we need the government to tell us what's best for our own lives.  I mean we're all just way to stupid to make these decisions on our own. 
To finish I'd like to address these "glitches" that are just hiccups along the way.  A number of cancer patients have been dropped from their insurance due to Obamacare.  These individuals were cut from their treatment because apparently Obamacare was designed to protect people with pre-existing conditions, especially ones with serious illness. Those Liberal heroes that care, not to gain power, but to serve only the people, don't seem to want to address those cancer patients.
I guess will just let it work itself out.

Politicians and Their Brilliant Ideas

In my last post I touched briefly on the blasting of Ted Cruz that has been taking place of late.  A whole slew of accusations were cast upon him with some Democratic Senators going so far as to calling him a terrorist.  All of this finger pointing came about because Ted Cruz was calling for an extension and a revision of the current Affordable Care Act.  Democratic Senators expressed to the media that the reason he was calling for it was because of his bad intentions and insensitive outlook on the Nation's less fortunate.  All of which I disagree with and, come to find out, so do the Democratic leaders.

These past couple weeks have consisted of multiple Congressional figures expressing concern about Healthcare.gov and the extreme failure it has been so far.  At the rate we're currently going the majority will be unable utilize the exchange to acquire their Insurance policies.  What's even worse is that there is a very large group of individuals that have dropped their current plan, either due to employer policy or regulation standards, and have still been unable to acquire their new one.  This means that these people will be required to pay a tax penalty on top of not being insured.  Blue Cross Blue Shield has sent out over fifteen-thousand letters of policy cancellations due to the fact that their plans didn't meet the standards set forth by the Affordable Care Act.  Big surprise that the promise to the American people that they could keep their current plan if they liked it was a complete lie.

Democratic Senators are now being faced with big issues with Obama Care and the outlook for the upcoming election doesn't appear to be all that well.  So now all of a sudden an extension seems like a good idea.  What a bunch a terrorists!  Every single thing that Ted Cruz expressed concern about is being repeated by the Democrats in Congress.  This is politics as usual and none of this surprises me at all.  Whats sad is the amount of people who love to demonize Ted Cruz for suggesting the same thing current Democratic members of Congress are suggesting.  Maybe if average citizens would allow themselves to stop listening to politicians promises and do a little research on their own, we as a society wouldn't be chained up in Plato's cave.