Thieves that they are, Progressives
will attempt every con job imaginable to amass as much power as possible, and
to establish control over the lives of ordinary citizens. Sadly, the grand
larceny we are now witnessing is being carried out through a normal political
process. Only, the larcenists, our political leaders, are dressed as the ‘good
cops’ while the mainstream media drives the ‘get away’ car.
Needless to say, the government has
itself, turned into a giant con operation over the past eight years. In fact,
the greatest American heist of all-time has been Democrats “sham-wowing”
ObamaCare (AKA “Affordable Care Act”) down the throats of all Americans.
Of course,
Obamacare was pitched as a ‘benevolent’ solution to two genuine problems:
1.The health care costs too much in
America. 2.Several million Americans who
wanted health insurance could not afford it.
These were two aspects of the same
problem, because health insurance premiums were unaffordable to many Americans
because they had risen along with rising health care costs.
The main reason why American health care costs so much is because the
person receiving the service is not the one paying for the service. It’s like going to Walmart, filling up your cart with a
bunch of items, and then having someone else pay for it all. Of course, you’d
get more than you need because you wouldn’t be the one paying for it. And the
party paying for it doesn’t care either, because they raised money through
premiums paid for by millions of other people, and they would simply pass the
cost off to those people in the form of higher premiums. That’s exactly what
has been happening with the American health care system.
So, a proper solution would be to
create a patient-centered system in such a way where a person who receives the
service, actually pays for the service (such as via health savings accounts).
This strategy would create real bargaining and real competition, and would also
drastically lower health care costs.
Instead, we got the crap sandwich we
now know as Obamacare
–which is basically a Progressive program designed to shift control of the
health care industry from the private sector to the public sector, from doctors,
hospitals, and insurance companies to the federal government.
The program was sold by Obama
feigning outrage over insurance companies refusing to grant insurance to people
with “pre-existing conditions.”As Dinesh D’Souza
explains in his book, Stealing
America:
“Having
castigated the insurance companies to gain public support, Obama then turned to
the insurance companies to get their support for Obamacare. This might seem
like an uphill, if not impossible task. Yet Obama pulled it off. He managed to
get many corporations and most insurance companies to support his health care
plan and even pay for ads promoting it.
Why would
corporations and insurance companies do that? Why would they support the man
who publicly excoriated them, and consent to a health care takeover scheme by
the government? In the case of corporations, Obama assured them that the law
would enable them to drop employees from their health care coverage so that
those people would be forced to sign up for the Obamacare health exchange.
Obama
also informed the health insurance companies that a big part of the law was to
force Americans who didn’t want to buy health insurance to do so. In other
words, Obamacare guaranteed the insurance companies millions of new customers!
Obama
also assured the insurance industry that by giving millions of other people the
right to free insurance, the federal government would be on the hook to pay for
all those premiums. Insurance companies would give up some control to the
state, but in exchange, they would get bigger profits that would be, in effect,
guaranteed by the state.
Corporations
could reduce their health care costs by dumping workers and turning over their
health care problems to the state. It was a worthwhile deal for these
profit-making entities. That’s why they lined up behind Obamacare.
The
insurance companies recognized, of course, that Obamacare was a rip-off. But
they also knew the target of the rip-off wasn’t them. It was the American
taxpayer.”
Obamacare
was a scheme to extract more money from the taxpayer through a combination of
higher taxes and mandates. Today, the ordinary American pays more for health
insurance and gets less in return.”
The con
job depended on Obama’s crafty pitch, “If you like your doctor, you can keep
your doctor.” “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your plan.” “The
average family will save more the $2,400 per year.” “Everyone in this country
will now have health insurance.”
Of course, as the Obamacare
architect Jonathan Gruber put it, the Obama administration also had to rely on
the American people being “too stupid to understand” Obamacare in order to get
it passed into law.
For Progressives like Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama, Obamacare was the ultimate prize. The prize was
control of the huge American health care system, representing virtually
one-sixth of the entire economy.
As D’Souza also explains: “Obamacare
put Progressives in charge of more than 10 million doctors, dentists,
pharmacists, nurses, and technicians and support staff.
Obamacare
gave progressives control of more than five thousand hospitals and almost a
million hospital beds. The system included hospitals, and also drug companies,
insurance companies, and the produces of hospital equipment, not to mention
research and educational institutions. Obamacare was a heist with a very big
payoff.”
A heist like this is not easy to
pull off. It requires extensive theft education. In fact, it requires the
education of an Alinskyite con artist like Obama or Clinton.
FAST-FORWARD
SIX YEARS LATER, THE GRAND HEIST IS NOW IN AN EPIC MELTDOWN. And guess who is on the hook again? We are.
As the Wall Street Journal recently
reported:“Tennessee is ground zero for Obamacare’s nationwide implosion. Late last month the state insurance
commissioner, Julie Mix McPeak, approved premium increases of up to 62% in a
bid to save the exchange set up under the Affordable Care Act. “I would
characterize the exchange market in Tennessee as very near collapse,” she
said.”
“A growing number of people in Obamacare are finding out their health
insurance plans will disappear from the program next year, forcing them to find
new coverage even as options shrink and prices rise.
At least
1.4 million people in 32 states will lose the Obamacare plan they have now,
according to state officials contacted by Bloomberg. That’s largely caused by
Aetna Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and some state or regional insurers quitting the law’s markets for individual coverage.
Sign-ups
for Obamacare coverage begin next month. Fallout from the quitting
insurers has emerged as the latest threat to the law, which is also a major
focal point in the U.S. presidential election. While it’s not clear what all
the consequences of the departing insurers will be, interviews with regulators
and insurance customers suggest that plans will be fewer and more expensive,
and may not include the same doctors and hospitals.
It may
also mean that instead of growing in 2017, Obamacare could shrink. As of March 31, the law covered 11.1 million people; an Oct. 13 S&P Global
Ratings report predicted that enrollment next year will range from an 8 percent
decline to a 4 percent gain.”
Not to mention the fact that the
nation’s doctors have spoken, and they say Obamacare must go, according to a
new survey. It is hurting the quality of health care.
“Nearly
two-thirds — 65.98 percent — of the 587 physicians surveyed say Congress
should repeal and replace Obamacare, according to a survey by Jackson & Coker.
Just over
60 percent of physicians surveyed were opposed to Obamacare when the bill
passed in 2010. After six years of Obamacare, that percentage has raised to
62.42 percent.
The overwhelming majority of physicians said that Obamacare has
negatively impacted their “compensation, workload, treatment decision-making
ability, and practice.”
Over 50 percent of physicians said that the Obamacare system has had a
negative impact on both the quality and cost of care patients receive
nationwide.
“Doctors
want the next president and the next Congress to repeal and replace this law
with something that is affordable to families and businesses,” Sandy Garrett,
president of Jackson & Coker, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Those
on the front lines of medicine tell us something has to change,” Garrett said.
“Even supporters of the ACA say the law needs improvement.”
So, how do
we take advantage of Obamacare’s downward spiral and crack this con operation
once and for all?
First of all, we need to recognize a
con job when we see one. We need to see that Obamacare was a Progressive hack
job used to takeover one-sixth of our economy, taking power out of the private
sector and putting it into the hands of government bureaucrats.
Secondly, we need to keep shining
light on this con operation. The best way to frustrate Progressives is to keep
shining the light on their shady activities.
Thirdly, we have to get these
larcenists out of Washington D.C. once and for all. The perfect way to
begin this operation is to vote in the election next month. Vote the cons
out of office and vote for the presidential candidate who is more likely to
repeal and replace Obamacare (Hint: It ain’t Hillary Clinton).
Lastly, we need to begin teaching
our Youth the real story of
America–that our nation was founded as an anti-theft society with a
Constitutional framework that protects our property, which includes our personal
right to make decisions about our own health care.
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