The Affordable Care Act: Rosemary’s Baby?
Talking heads all over the coastal blue belts and inside the Beltway are belting the Republicans as the big losers in the momentous political struggle over government funding and ObamaCare. The media consensus, including too many at FOX, is that the Republicans caved and have thus handed the Dems and President Zero a huge victory, setting the stage for a Democratic sweep in next year’s congressional elections.
Excuse me, but have any of those pundits factored into that equation the blooming national disaster so ironically labeled the Affordable Care Act? Starting with an enrollment system that is mostly inaccessible, and when it is, grudgingly unfolding in bits and bytes, is a budget-rending monstrosity for most young Americans who must purchase their own health insurance, ObamaCare is a gift the Republicans should accept as an unread blessing. The blogosphere is ripe with examples of sticker shock expressed by younger people who are for the first time seeing the actual truth of Hope and Change. Hardworking, productive young citizens finally are coming to the realization that such hope and change doesn’t include them.
What once seemed to be such an obviously simple solution to seeing that all Americans have health insurance has run up on the diamond-hard reality of economics: somebody has to pay. Guess what, all you young idealists who voted for Obama and supported national health care: he built it on your strong, young backs, and it is a burden you, the gradually aging healthy, will carry for decades until you finally become users of the services, which will by then likely be reduced to a skeleton of what you could have had before your liberal god destroyed the system.
There is hope, however, that this now-emerging monstrosity, breeching in the worst way, may be aborted in its birthing process — surely a scenario liberals can admire, what with it being born barely breathing and with little hope of eventual functionality. By liberal doctrine, that’s a non-entity, a null, nothing to ever take life. Truth be told, the Obama administration, the Democratic Party, and the liberal movement have taken a bite too far — one they can’t chew, one they can’t swallow, and one they will likely choke mightily on at some future date.
Back to the premise of my title: those who have rendered this legislative Rosemary’s Baby dead on arrival are not all those acquiescent Republicans in Congress, but the Republican governors who refused to go along with the ObamaCare concept of organizing state exchanges, because those governors wisely saw that path as detrimental to their citizens and their budgets. They resisted and they won by forcing the Feds into taking up their slack and attempting to piece together a multi-state exchange to replace the non-conforming state exchanges. And did it ever have the desired effect. The feds, under the questionably competent Kathleen Sebelius, rolled out an internet interface that is laughably unworkable, financially punitive, and incapable of enrolling folks who face significant dollar penalties if not enrolled by the first of the year.
And to these incompetent federal fools Americans will willingly entrust their health care?
I don’t think so…but I sense that something big is coming from a populace so ill-served.
Crossposted at American Thinker
Category: Politics
Once again we observe the uninformed. When I hear liberals speak, I remind myself of the demise of the public schools who simply don’t teach accurate history anymore and realize a lot of people are just lazy to find the facts for themselves. Then, I’m reminded of Booker T. Washington’s quote, where he said: “There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” (Al Sharpton, Rev. Jackson come to mind for “those who don’t want to lose their jobs). Bear with me, here’s a quick history lesson that explains how we got here: The Republican Party was formed specifically to eradicate slavery, and Lincoln (a Republican) made it so. It was the Democratic Party who seceded from the Union, in part, over protest of their refusal to give up slavery. The 13th – 15th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution were all introduced and passed by the Republican Party. Many like to hold FDR up as one of the more progressive presidents that helped champion the plight of the poor, one of the first to implement social justice for all. This social justice and equality excluded one of the poorest segments of the population at the time, discrimination in housing, transportation, public accommodations and the armed services went virtually unchecked by the Roosevelt administration. It was Eisenhower, a Republican president, who sent federal troops to remove a Democrat governor who blocked the door of a high school in Little Rock, AR. President Johnson (Democrat) opposed the 1954 version of the civil rights act, and while he was a senator, he is known to have said, “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days, and that’s… Read more »
Bonkers … I am BLACK not white …. you moron! Further, many other contributers here are woman!
You sound like a sexist race baitor, much like the DEMS and leftist who are destroying our country!
Oh one question … tell me about your health insurance plan … what knda of coverage do you have?
sorry for spelling errors …
My comment in #51 was meant for response to this discussion: http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=38034&cpage=1#comment-975762
USMCE8Ret,
Thanks for clarifying … we thought you went off the deep end like the stenographer last night during the House vote!
@55 – Nah, not quite like that!
Doubt we’ll hear back from ‘Bonkers’. That kinda vacant ‘sea gulling’ is usually the mark of an adolescent, hell, it couldn’t even complete one of it’s sentences. Mommy probably chased it away from the computer.
Larry Correia has compiled a useful checklist for us to remember in arguing with liberals, I’m just going to leave it here-http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/the-internet-arguing-checklist/
@58
That was a great article, thanks for posting the link. 🙂
I’ll have you know that I wasn’t chased away from the computer by my mother. English is my second language. I grew up in the Philippines and I love America. You sure blame liberals for a lot, you don’t think they like America too? Based on the poll numbers the GOP after taking the country hostage, it doesn’t look like they have a lot of fans left, pretty much alienated the whole country.
It’s like you all want change that no ones else wants…that’s gotta be frustrating.
The government is what makes this country great. It would be chaos without it.
Except that the government has actually created most of the problems that we have today. That is beyond disgusting.
Bonkers-you could not be more wrong, the greatest American of all time said this: “”Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
Wow, just wow.
“The government is what makes this country great. It would be chaos without it.”
And just who do you think the ‘The government’ is in this country Bonkers?
Your ignorance is showing.
And BTW, Obama’s approval ratings? From a high of 65% in Feb 09′, to a low of 42% as of the 13 of this month.
There is also this, from a dedicated liberal over at the Daily Kos, who seems slightly upset over the fact that his and his live-in’s rates are going sky high, and the deductibles will drain him and her. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2013/10/16/awww-daily-kos-scribe-whines-obamacare-sent-his-premiums-soaring
His response? Quoting from the article, “I am canceling insurance for us and I am not paying any f***ing penalty. What the hell kind of reform is this?” As Bruce Willis said in the first Die Hard, “welcome to the party, pal”.
@#63, According to the AP(Administration Press), Barrycade’s approval rating is at 37%.
@63
To put that approval number (37%) into perspective for you, that is the same approval rating Bush had at the end, when the news and the liberals were blaming PRETTY MUCH every damn thing on him, trying to paint him as a war criminal and a felon and all that other bullshit that they refuse to make stick to Obama.
37% is, interestingly, also, with the +/-3% margin, the number of people who vote democrat as a knee-jerk response.
I’ll go with “I don’t wanna overthrow them, I wanna fire them!” and “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” The worst part is, even with the website debacle because one contractor was picked for it, supposedly no bidding was done, and they picked a company that had no business doing the website (A Canadian company? How Ironic is that, a non-US company is creating a website to collect American “Taxes”). No one is going to be held accountable for this because the Obama administration doesn’t hold people accountable or expect people to accept responsibility for their actions. (They can always blame Bush or Republicans, so they don’t need anyone to take responsibility) This is why you have Benghazi happen and NO ONE is on the blame line, the IRS scandal and no one is on the blame line, the ACA website debacle and no one will be on the blame line, the NSA perjury about “not collecting data of US Citizens” that no one will be on the blame line for. I watched a little of the Park Service Director being called in front of a Congressional committee and his response to them was “I don’t remember who I talked to in the White House.” That’s basically another person saying, “If I don’t tell you anything you should know, I’ll be taken care of. If I fuck over the President, THEN I’ll get fired…so kiss my ass.” Same as Benghazi, the NSA, the IRS, Eric Holder and the Fast n’ Furious murders, you name it. And the same President that back in 2006 preached about not raising the debt limit because it would cost our children and grandchildren, is now charging our great grandchildren and great great grandchildren for things he wants to push. Oh and according to factcheck.org, the recent quarterly update they did on Obama, from the numbers I saw and read, it is pretty ironic yet again. According to what’s happening, poor people are getting poorer and rich people are getting richer. The population on Welfare has increased 49% since 2008,… Read more »
@65 Excellent point That Guy. And can you just imagine what Obama’s approval rating would be if the media were pounding him the way they did Bush? Even enough of that die hard 37% Dem voting bloc might be disillusioned enough to put Barry down to 20-25%.
@67
I would wager that if the media was as patently dishonest about Obama as they were Bush, he’d be down in the high teens. They outright fabricated stories with Bush. Blamed HE, and HE ALONE, for everything. Debt limit? His fault. Scandal? His fault. Alito? His fault. A bunch of conservative members added to the DoJ while liberals fled under fear of actual scrutiny? His fault. Every intelligence community in the first world thought to be wrong about WMDs in Iraq? His fault. They still owe him an apology for that, then, because where did Syria get theirs?
“Taking the country hostage” Really, Bonkers? I just don’t want to be FORCED to buy something that I don’t WANT.
If by fighting against that kind of government intrusion is taking the country hostage, then arrest my ass.
Joe … and some said the Nazi’s in the mid 1930’s were just nationalists.
Bonkers,
The PI people who came here through toil, sweat and tears by serving in the US Navy as second class (and I don’t mean rank) Sailors would kick the living shit out of you for your pure ANTI American speech. Your forefathers here in the US worked theirs asses off to propell PI people to where they are today. Like every other culture. You should be ashamed.
I spit on you and do the good PI American citizens.
We the people … Dumb ass … Ever heard of it?
Bonkers. One other thing. Go back to the PI where radical Islamist control the jungles. When you die and while hanging around in hell you will remember the day a Navy Master Chief called you out, you ungreatful fool.
GEN MacArthor and COL Story send their regards … Dumb Ass.
Can hardly wait to see all the changes to Medicare that are included in this mess.
I don’t want Medicare. Never wanted Medicare. But, they have screwed the delivery of healthcare so badly already that most of us have no real choice about it – we simply have to sign up for it. AND keep our private insurance. In another 10 years, or less, that private insurance may be all we have. A bunch of things will be unavailable to anyone over the age of 75.
Or the private insurance companies may be forced to drop us as well.
Master Chief–he exposed himself for what he is–a whiny, slacking, do-nothing, gimme-ma-free-shit moocher.
I don’t care where he’s from. Freeloaders come in all shapes and sizes, and the fact that he expects the government to “do” rather than him doing for himself and having the government get the fuck out of his way should tell you all you need to know about him and where he’ll eventually end up.
No, what pisses me off is the fact that there are tens–nay, HUNDREDS–of millions of people who think along the same lines.
And they vote. Guess which way they’ll vote?
NH. Rog that!
OWB, I just got the 2014 Medicare booklet. NO real changes so far. The various premiums for supplemental coverage for Part C are listed by state. It does not say that the Part B premium went up. If you’re already enrolled in VA Health Care, you can substitute VA prescription coverage for Part D.
But try to find a Medicare-friendly doctor. Aye, there’s the rub. The paperwork and the reduced amounts paid to doctors/clinics for Medicare services has them dumping Medicare recipients everywhere. You are literally better off with VAHCC, even if you have to inflict authority on some of the sandcrabs to give you what you need.
NHSparky, there is such a thing as karmic backlash. 🙂
PH2–as was pointed out elsewhere, we saw on a very small scale what we’re in store for when the freebies run out.
Sparky, please don’t give up.
NH. “We’s gots to eat.”
PH2–I’m not giving up.
I’m stocking up.
Sandcrabs… I think I learned a new word today, a Navel term at that!
NHSparky, me, too.
TN, I learned that one down in Pensacola when I was in “A” School.
Civil servants = sandcrabs.
What sucks is after 20+ years of humping in the military, my retirement will be a pittance compared to the career welfare recipients paychecks who don’t do shit. So I’ll have to get another job after I retire most likely.
It all comes back to, “hmmm, who do I want to vote for? Oh, look, this guy wants me to WORK for my money. But this other guy wants to give it to me for free, let me think…”
Oh and I might work with some sandcrabs TN, but I never find any in my “Navel” that I’ve seen, though in a couple cases I could probably fit inside theirs. Badumtish!
Evidently Eric, the squids are so covered in sandcrabs that they chose to ignore the navel reference.
TN…meh. We just chalk it up to people who have to be naked to count to 21.
PH: Not sure if you have been trapped by the terminology, but that supplemental insurance thing is one of the pitfalls. We are maintaining secondary insurance, not supplemental, because it pays according to the way it always did. Supplemental pays according to the Medicare rules/scales. But, additional rules are being imposed daily now. It is just a matter of time until we will no longer be allowed to keep our secondary insurance. They simply cannot allow any of us to live that far off the plantation!
NHSparky: or in some cases, to 22. (smile)