It’s in a death spiral.
Let’s hope.
I think that the two big issues in the election next year will be ObamaCare repeal (and it will be much more sharply defined without Romney muddying the issue), and government corruption.
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Just wait ’til Open Enrollment this autumn. I will not be surprised by the vehemence of any reaction whatsoever, up to and including riots in the streets.
One of the things that worries me about Obamacare and repeal; what happens to those people who have per-existing conditions and have been maintaining their insurance for years?
For example, someone with hospitalization-only insurance that predates their diagnosis (diabetes, for example). They can’t get reasonable insurance now if they had to start over.
Obamacare, I think, will kill their current insurance policy (which does not meet Obamacare minimums). So, they don’t have the option of keeping the insurance that they have (and have had for years).
So, would repeal leave them with no insurance and no way of getting any (anything remotely affordable, that is)?
I’m all for repeal, but I hope it’s done in a way that does not leave people in the situation above in the lurch. (I happen to be one of them).
On the other hand… Obamacare is shaping up to so awful that repeal would be better for me even if it left me with no insurance and no means of getting any.
Repeal — which is scarcely possible until 2017, and unlikely even then — would put you back where you are today. Your insurer would be free to drop you or change your policy, and its premium, just as they are today.
I’m good with that — if it keeps the IRS out of it.
Yeah, and Romney couldn’t lose with Obama’s poor positives. One thing about the internet, conservatives gravitate to pro conservative media and subsequently they’ve been drinking their own bathwater even more than the left. Obamacare will be implemented because the big insurance companies want it badly and will be advertising to sell it. The Republicans have been laying siege to big government while big business has been pillaging their homes. The corporatist left has co-opted the “pro big business” Republicans. Expect passage of the immigration bill and Presidential nominee Bush 3 for the same reason.
= Jan Brewer.
I suppose I am aligning myself with Rand’s most strident critics to say that the problem may not be so much “the gummint running health care” as the ‘tude of the people in the gummint right now.
Bear with me please on this as I am aware of the Libertarian argument that 1) the government ought not to run health care, and 2) were the government to do just that, it will do it badly no matter who is in charge.
No, who is in charge indeed does matter. Now take the http://www.energystar.gov Web site on consumer information regarding energy efficient appliances . . . please!
Back in the bad, bad Bush days of Big Oil running everything, you could go to Energy Star and find out which appliances merited the Energy Star label. Now I know this is Evil Socialism for the gummint to be in the business of even suggesting what kind of appliance to buy, but maybe a person doesn’t want to pay so much money on energy bills, and this is useful information. So I would go to http://www.energystar.gov and look stuff up.
Now, after “Richard Windsor” got through with that dang Web site, it http://www.energystar.gov is all “warmist propaganda” and you have to wade through all of this “stuff” about “gee, aren’t we good people saving the planet” before you even get to the ratings.
Not only that, the Energy Star rating system is broken because at least with dehumidifiers, that manufacturers are “gaming the system” with features like continuous fan operation that give good efficiency under the standard test conditions but wreck the “part load efficiency” under regular operation. Sound familiar?
And when you try to contact EPA Energy Star about this, there is no response. But there is plenty of Richard Windsor’s rah-rah aren’t we good people (lots of pictures of smiling people with the gummint approved gender and skin color tokenism) along with “Take the Pledge” and other garbage.
What does this have to do with health care? If health care is run with the same effectiveness as Richard Windsor’s EPA, we are just so hosed . . . And no, Jim, it is not Repub governor obstructionism. Your people in high places can talk and talk and talk but they don’t . . . know . . . the . . . first . . . thing . . . about . . . how . . . to . . . run . . . anything . . .
Meaning that the more power is invested in the government, the higher the political stakes in the minutiae of everyone’s life. Which means that for those of us who just don’t want the hassle, who don’t want to have to sweat the election results every fracking two years, it really doesn’t matter who is in charge, because we don’t want ANYBODY in charge but ourselves.
Counter-revolutionary fools! You cannot stop Obamacare. The proles have a right to decent free health care such as NSA data probes being inserted up their butts as well as IRS telescreens installed in the teabaggers’ bathrooms. This to ensure that only healthy politically correct speech occurs.