The Fine Art of Obamacare Obfuscation

The Fine Art of Obamacare Obfuscation

Even though it’s the best on the planet, an excellent case can be made for the existence of weaknesses in America’s health care system. When everyone from potentates to average joes still travel to the U.S. for state of the art treatment, we must be doing something very right, which is not to say the system is flawless.

It’s expensive, overloaded with paperwork and fraught with serious issues but few sick people go out of their way to go to places such as Great Britain to seek treatment in that country’s bankrupt, socialistic National Health Service, the Obamacare model.

It was those issues, a cooperative press, and majorities in both houses of congress that enabled Democrats to ramrod a basically dishonest, 2309 page monstrosity which no legislators read and which the majority of Americans opposed through to law.

The fact that federal employees, including those same congresspersons who voted in favor of it, kept their existing and generous medical plan, their Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and were exempted from Obamacare is perhaps the most telling factor indicative of how farcical the “Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act” truly is. The PPAHCA was deemed good enough for the rabble, the hoi polloi, but the very people who brought us Obamacare wanted no part of it.

Its most glaring omission, tort reform, is testimony both to the plethora of lawyers in congress and the act’s lack of serious interest in controlling costs.

One of the prime arguments used to foist Obamacare on the public was the sensitive issue of pre-existing medical conditions and how to cover, and pay, for them: Insurers don’t want to cover them and the public is not inclined to shoulder what could be the astronomical costs of paying for them.

After the House passed a bill to repeal Obamacare, as Republicans had promised, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed to block even a senate vote on the measure, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebellius jumped into the fray to pound home the administration line on the invaluability of the existing law and the perils associated with repealing or even altering it.

Sebellius’ press release is a perfect example of the administration’s ongoing duplicity . . .
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