On the 14th anniversary of the passage of ObamaCare...
They lied then and they're still lying — it stinks.
Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. Government does not solve problems, it subsidizes them. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it… The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
~ Ronald Reagan
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We all live in the Real World, not the made-up world in which up is down, bad is good (hat-tip George Orwell) and cow farts are a crisis demanding the destruction of human wealth… To wit: there is Reality and there are lies that distort Reality, the ObamaCare law representing the latter.
No surprise. Obama, gloating on social media about the “success” of the ACA, the number of people it has “helped,” is a clinic in propaganda… Falsehoods made true. Lies in your face. For, in fact, by every measure, the law harms patients, financially burdens families, and calcifies, as intended, more costly care.
Yes, the absurdly named “Affordable Care Act” didn’t - SHOCK! - make health insurance affordable. It didn’t make health care delivery less expensive. And, in FACT, the spigot of lies from Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and the media notwithstanding, it made every problem, every issue, every non-transparent, infuriating gut-punch associated with American health care WORSE.
WORSE health care outcomes
FEWER health care choices
HIGHER health care costs
LESS efficiency, transparency, and quality of patient care
In fact, 14 years later, it stands as one of the worst laws in history, a shameful, rammed-through power-grab at the time, and a shameful, sclerotic power-grab today—something victims of ObamaCare know.
Ask patients, ask doctors, ask the receptionist - redirecting you to the redirected party you were undirected from prior to redirection - they’ll tell you. ObamaCare failed. Is failing. Was designed to fail.
But where it didn’t fail was in corroborating Reagan’s view. Where it didn’t fail was in subsidizing insurance companies and sticking taxpayers with every charge - bills tantamount to theft - The System rakes from providers. No one knows what things cost—they change hourly, minutely… And they don’t care. You couldn’t keep your M.D.; you did lose your plan; your premium doubled, all of which opponents predicted, and all of which Democrats knew would take place. Costs are higher because ObamaCare drives them, subsidizing The Racket, allowing inflated costs, and making taxpayers the bank for bureaucratic corruption.
That’s Reality on Obamacare’s birthday… Another Reagan quote, his most famous, says, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
Too bad we’ve lost sight of that wisdom. Too bad he’s not here to help make things right.
~ Greg Halvorson
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💊 This isn't even political, it's medical — Obamacare is a disaster. By every STATISTICAL measure, by every data point, it made every single issue - cost, efficiency, transparency, choice, and availability & access - WORSE… This isn't debatable, it is a fact.
https://greghalvorson.substack.com/p/on-the-14th-anniversary-of-the-passage