{"id":28801,"date":"2016-07-17T13:27:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T17:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28801"},"modified":"2016-07-17T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T17:27:19","slug":"another-reason-your-votes-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28801","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason Your Votes Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The Federalist<\/a> posted an article about ObamaCare<\/a> explaining where we are and where President Obama<\/a> would like to go next in American healthcare<\/a>. It really isn’t good news.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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President Obama recently published an overview<\/a> of the results of ObamaCare in the Journal of the American Medical Association<\/a><\/i>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s a pretty extraordinary article, because in important ways it acknowledges that ObamaCare has basically failed\u2014and it lays the cards on the table for what we always knew was going to be his next step.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…Forcing insurers to cover people who are already sick and to charge them the same rates as healthy people has jacked up insurance premiums<\/a> for everyone else. So because the law didn\u2019t make insurance affordable, Congress has to make it affordable by heavily subsidizing it with even more of the taxpayers\u2019 money.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Obama also somewhat vaguely acknowledges the problem of rising deductibles. One way of staunching the rise in premiums has been to offer plans with very high deductibles\u2014the amount a person has to pay upfront before his insurance kicks in to cover the rest. This keeps the premiums affordable at the cost of making the actual care less affordable by whacking you with huge payments if you actually get sick. Last year, the New York Times<\/a><\/i> acknowledged<\/a> that under ObamaCare, \u201csky-high deductibles\u2026are leaving some newly insured feeling nearly as vulnerable as they were before they had coverage\u2026. \u2018We have insurance, but can\u2019t afford to use it.’\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Obviously ObamaCare is not working in a way that is helpful to the American<\/a> people. So what happens next? Don’t say you weren’t warned–you were.<\/p>\n

The article explains the next step:<\/p>\n

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Like I said, this was predictable and predicted from the very beginning, but now it\u2019s all out in the open. ObamaCare was always just an exercise in planned obsolescence, cobbling together a system nobody really thought was going to work, just so they could exploit its failures to push for the socialized medicine they really wanted all along<\/a>. It\u2019s telling that in this article, Obama boasts that the Affordable Care Act has increased the number of people who are insured, but his own data shows that the biggest driver of that is an expansion of Medicaid, which is not insurance but welfare\u2014the system he wants for everyone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As I noted back in 2009, a decade-long exercise in deliberately wrecking private health insurance is the most callous and destructive way to pursue that goal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If that surprises you, look at Venezuela<\/a>. When has the Left ever shied away from smashing everything to pieces in pursuit of government power? So we shouldn\u2019t expect anything different here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If we are going to stop this runaway train, and it is not assured that we can, the only possible solution is to elect people in November who do not support socialized medicine. How do you find this people? You look at the voting records of anyone who was in Congress when ObamaCare was passed. You listen to the statements of the candidates.<\/p>\n

I have one final note. ObamaCare was passed through a budget reconciliation process rather than as a standard bill. This was because that type of bill could not be filibustered in the Senate. No Republicans voted for HB3590, the predecessor to ObamaCare, or the reconciliation. Senator Scott Brown<\/a> of Massachusetts (who was voted in after Ted Kennedy’s<\/a> death) never got a chance to vote on ObamaCare because the Attorney General of Massachusetts<\/a> delayed the certification of the election until after any Senate vote would be taken. The shenanigans involved in passing ObamaCare in the first place were disgraceful. It is also disgraceful that the Republican House of Representatives has not made a serious effort to defund ObamaCare. We need to elect people who will end ObamaCare and bring the free market into healthcare. Then America will have a strong healthcare system that serves all Americans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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