Five years ago, President Obama signed his signature healthcare bill into law. At the time, he presented it as a plan that would lower the cost of health care in America, get everyone on an insurance plan, and improve the quality of the care we received. Unfortunately, none of those promises have come to fruition. Instead, we’ve added 1.2 trillion dollars to the federal budget, increased premiums for the majority of Americans, and made life exceedingly difficult for business owners.
And this is only the beginning.
When we ask ourselves if we can take another five years of this law, it’s important to realize the damage the ACA has already caused. If you ask the Obama administration or its parrots in the press, everything is hunky-dory. And for some, that’s true. But when it comes to the big picture, Obamacare has done more harm than good. And when you take into consideration that the individual tax penalties haven’t even been felt by the majority of uninsured Americans yet, that harm is only going to grow.
A Pack of Lies
In addition to the promise of universal coverage, Obamacare’s biggest selling point was that it would bring down the cost of health insurance. But there is no indication that it has done that. Premiums for those who shop for insurance through the non-group marketplace were 24 percent higher in 2014 than they would have been without the law. Increasingly, insurance companies are putting the cost of medicine back on their customers. Those who opt out of insurance altogether must now pay a toll to the federal government. After all, that 1.2 trillion dollar price tag has to be paid one way or the other.
This year, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether or not to strike down federal subsidies in those states that declined to set up their own Obamacare exchanges. If they do, millions of people who are only able to afford insurance because of those subsidies will find themselves out in the cold. It’s hard to see how the law could survive such a ruling, which means we could be living in the last days of Obama’s signature legislation.
If that happens, it could be a short-term disaster. But if it saves us from another five years of this abomination, it might well be worth it. Our economy can’t stand up to much more of this. Obamacare is keeping our job growth from flourishing the way it should, putting us in danger of another recession. Employers are handcuffed, forced to scale back staff due to the ACA mandate. We are becoming a nation of part-time workers, even as liberals fight tooth and nail for minimum wage increases. We don’t need minimum wage increases; we need to let the free market work the way it’s supposed to.
And that, of course, is the big problem with Obamacare. It is a massive federal intrusion on the free market, and nothing good ever comes from that. The faster we repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with a sustainable, private alternative, the faster we can get this country booming again.
People have wanted universal health insurance for a long time. Now we finally have it hold on to it. Tell that do nothing Republican congress to try and fix the triviality’s that is wrong with it. They have voted over 50 times to get rid of it altogether and can’t get the job done. We have to replace all these do nothing Republicans in Washington and this country will be in good shape.
Money taken out of medicare because of obamacare caused an additional 1500 per year in our premiums and 700 deductible for prescriptions. Deductibles for hospitalization also increased. Seniors are being hit hard to support obamacare for many individuals who are receiving assistance within the exchanges. Dont critize the republicans for not going along with the policies that demos want because 50% of americans are against obamas socialist policies. Ask harry reid how many republican bills he wont bring up for a vote in the senate.
Now that Ted Cruz has taken Obamacare – I suspect that the attack is over. Note that Cruz did not have to take Obamacare, he could have bought healthcare insurance outside of the of the ACA marketplace.
No one has been bounced from emergency room. you appear to be one of those that are unhappy with America. Move please.
Are you one those idiots that think that ER care substitutes for healthcare, and that it is free ?
Idiot is a bad choice. But it was your party said they had all these people getting no care at all. I am not sure who the idiots are anymore but hey keep electing them.
The argument has always been about healthcare – not emergency care – which is extremely expensive – and may stabilize a possibly fatal condition but not do much more than that.
The argument???
HWht to put in the place of the trainwreck that Obamacare replaced.
Give it up Jerry! I can see who you’re replying to – I have his left wing, communist opinions blocked on this phone. I’m glad I don’t have to read the asshole’s mooselum loving comments any more. It’s a left wing troll. Yer wasting your breath on the shithead!!
Oh Mikey – you really should use my fan mail address, or people will think that you really do read my postings. I will send it to you again if you like.
Obama care will survive I am afraid. What will be more of a disaster than it is now that it will eventually go to single payer being the U.S. Government than it becomes a real nightmare that will finish off America. This is a program that is all about control and buying more votes by more hand outs such a subsidy on the policies that everyone that cannot get one has to pay. The current will still leave 20 million or so not enrolled at least and I think that will grow. They don’t care. They know if they have total control they have the information they need to maintain total control of our lives.
It almost certainly will evolve into a single payer (or public healthcare system) as in every developed (except ours) on the planet.
The sooner that happens – the better. None of us is immune from serious illnesses – rich or poor – so it is a benefit that everyone would derive a benefit from.
Have you checked on there services? I had to use a dipensery once, I won’t leave this Country again!
Yes. I spent 10 years in the UK. It was as good or better than what I get here.
And the thought of just one highly trained sniper keeps coming to mind. THAT is what would end most of this country’s woes!!
i think “Obamacare” will not totally disappear…to many have been forced into it.
it may get “watered down” but will never completely go away.
there are a FEW positives from it: coverage for those with chronic conditions, able to keep dependent children on policy longer, to name some of the better features.
however…FORCING persons to purchase ANYTHING is NOT morally right IMO ESPECIALLY when the IRS is involved!
right now, approximately 1/5th of my income goes to government mandated (health care and auto insurance in the state of california) insurance payments! what’s next?
I have absolutely no problem with an effective public healthcare system, anti poverty support, and affordable education. After all that is what Norway has – and – also the highest pro rata of millionaires in the world.
don’t forget to point out that Norway has a population of only five million and is a monarchy, welfare state, and has a ‘rough’ history in regards to discrimination, they teach Christianity in public schools, is only 148,000 square miles in size, and yes, they are fourth, world wide, in high personal income per capita…and it is one of the worlds largest producers of natural gas and oil…something our current administration is desperately trying to keep us out of…energy independence.
would’t it be easier for someone to relocate to someplace like Norway, England, Russia, Brazil, etc than to try to change the US into a country like those?
“Affordable” needs a definitive description…
Obama is only interested in lowering the U.S. into a third world economy .
Why has everything Obama has done, weakened our country? MSM makes him out to be a hero. I wonder what their true agenda is?
Obamacare was a fraud when it started and it proves to be more of one as time goes on, we will better off when this fraud of a chief is gone, never to darken our doors with his BS again!
It seems to me that the people are going to have to take over via the 2nd amendment. It’s obvious that congress is not going to do anything but kiss Obama’s butt. It wouldn’t surprise me if Obama didn’t announce, in 2016, that there will not be an election and decide to stay on. Oh,you,say,”he can’t do that”. Why can’t he do it? He’s torn the Constitution to shreds while congress sits there with the cheeks of their butts pulled up, scared to death of this little two-bit dictator. Don’t be surprised when he makes the announcement.
This is what I am very fearful of. Recommend you do a search on Navy Captain Heather Cole, what happened at Tinker AFB on March 16 and 17, I think you will find it to be of interest. Best info is some military site and from Pravda.
The PPACA aka Obama Care aka ACA has never been honorable in any fashion . First the monster was not legislated correctly . Then the monster was contested sent to SCOTUS where it was called a tax . By being a tax (it always was a tax) the tax had to be first signed off by the house then the senate , however this was done in reverse unconstitutionally . Since then POTUS has been legislating said monster on his own like a dictator or a king for in our country the POTUS can not legislate laws. Therefore making the monster even more of an unconstitutional nation destroying socialistic tyrannical power grabbing population control law. Certainly is not about health care.
So can our nation survive another five years ? Does the sun rise in the west and set in the east ? The answer is a definitive NO / NOPE . There is no hope with this change unless the PPACA aka Obama Care aka ACA is defunded and health care is returned to the free market system that made our country the greatest nation in the world.
I can’t take another 5 days or 5 minutes!!! This buffoon sitting in our white house is pure trash…. born in the gutter, lived in the gutter and is determined that we pay for the actions of his slut mother!!! He is angry, defiant and believes he, and only he, can change our democracy with freedom for every citizen to a socialistic regime when he can play hitler!!!! His will look at his arragance and disregard for our rights and he will be despised as the idiot he truly is. His penchant for never being able to tell the truth makes him one of the pigs in animal farm… and THAT will be his history!!!
There are many sources out there that say the exact opposite of what you claim. That the affordable care act has lowered the cost of healthcare. That many more people now have insurance that did not have and could not get health insurance before the Affordable Care Act. That millions of people are extremely satisfied with what they have now. So the question is, whom do we believe?
For anyone to be believable they must have credibility. The source of the information has a lot to do with credibility. The folks that think the Affordable Care Act is a good idea usually list dozens of sources for their information. I’ve noticed you did not list a single source. How can I possibly believe what you say if you don’t back it up with credible information?
Until you list your sources you’re just another right wingnut conservative website suffering from a severe case of Obama derangement syndrome. Really no different from my claiming the sun is actually blue and calling you a moron if you disagree with me, which is basically what all conservative blogs do. You make outrageous claims, provided absolutely nothing to back them up, and curse and insult and rail incessantly against anyone that challenges your claims.
To quote a TV commercial from a couple of decades back, “Where’s the beef?”
Do you have obama care?? That would be a no, right! I deliver pizza for a living (loser, i know), yet the DHS here in michigan said i earn to much money for any help. Have you priced any plans on the web-site?? Again, that would be a no. But, hey, your a left wing loon, sadly, why bother with facts! can anyone afford the $6,000 a yr deductible??? Again, that would be a no. Maybe , before opening your pie-hole (lol) you might want to look some of this up. Clearly, you have a computer. To quote the TV “just the facts”. sadly, you dont care about the facts, but hey, your new god obama loves you lemming types! sadly.