{"id":21029,"date":"2013-11-23T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21029"},"modified":"2013-11-23T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T15:25:02","slug":"the-idea-behind-the-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21029","title":{"rendered":"The Idea Behind The Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an article about ObamaCare<\/a>. It is based on two articles–one theoretical and one practical. The theoretical article was posted today at National Review<\/a>. It was written by Andrew McCarthy<\/a>. The practical article was posted at Power Line<\/a> on Thursday. It was written by Paul Mirengoff<\/a> and illustrates how Andrew McCarthy’s theory looks in the real world.<\/p>\n

Andrew McCarthy describes ObamaCare as follows:<\/p>\n

It is a Fabian plan to move an unwilling nation, rooted in free enterprise, into Washington-controlled, fully socialized medicine. As its tentacles spread over time, the scheme (a) pushes all Americans into government markets (a metastasizing blend of Medicare, Medicaid, and \u201cexchanges\u201d run by state and federal agencies); (b) dictates the content of the \u201cprivate\u201d insurance product<\/a>; (c) sets the price; (d) micromanages the patient access, business practices, and fees of doctors; and (e) rations medical care. Concurrently, the scheme purposely sows a financing crisis into the system, designed to explode after Leviathan has so enveloped health care, and so decimated the private medical sector, that a British- or Canadian-style \u201cfree\u201d system \u2014 formerly unthinkable for the United States<\/a> \u2014 becomes the inexorable solution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew McCarthy reminds us of President Obama’s<\/a> statement to a 2007 SEIU health-care forum.\u00a0 The President stated, \u201cThere\u2019s going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out or 15 years or 20 years out.\u201d The transition he is referring to is the transition out of employee-based health into a government one-payer system. It was assumed that the individual healthcare insurance market could be phased out much more quickly. We are seeing that already in the number of individual health insurance<\/a> policies that are being cancelled every day due to ObamaCare. This brings me to the article showing how ObamaCare works in practical terms.<\/p>\n

Paul Mirengoff reports:<\/p>\n

Covered California, that state\u2019s insurance exchange, has rejected President Obama\u2019s request that people be allowed to remain in non-compliant health insurance plans for another year. This decision is highly significant because California has experienced by far the most insurance policy cancellations of any state, reportedly<\/a> around 900,000 of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eliana Johnson<\/a> points out that a number of Blue States \u2014 New York, Minnesota, Washington, and Rhode Island \u2014 have previously said no to Obama\u2019s fix. So far, less liberal states \u2014 e.g., Florida, Tennesse, Alabama, and South Carolina \u2014 seem more receptive to the president.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The irony is only superficial. Blue State<\/a> leaders are saying no because, as liberals, they dislike private plans and, more importantly, want to offer no escape from Obamacare for the young and the healthy whose participation in exchanges is needed to subsidize the middle-aged and the sick.<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Obama’s healthcare fix is political theater. It provides cover for him and (in his mind) for other Democrats. ObamaCare has cost the Democrat party<\/a> dearly in the polls, and there is an election next year. There is one school of thought that says that because President Obama is in his second term he is more interested in changing America than being popular, but there is a problem with that. President Obama needs a cooperative Congress to keep ObamaCare in place. If the American people decide to vote out of office those politicians who supported ObamaCare, it is very possible that the next Congress could throw the entire program out and start over (we can only hope). So there is a fine line to be walked between changing ObamaCare enough to make it palatable to the American public without sacrificing the goal of eventual reaching a single-payer system and winning the next election. Get out the popcorn–this is going to be fun to watch!<\/p>\n

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