IT WAS NEVER ABOUT IMPROVING OUR HEALTHCARE

 

Every time I hear some liberal politician defend Obamacare by saying; “we had to do something about the failing healthcare system in this country and even if it’s not perfect the ACA is a good start”, I want to scream at my TV. The law was crafted to control people’s access to healthcare for political and political fund raising purposes, as the President likes to say, period. Senior citizens cost the government more than healthy young people especially because of the Medicare program. The new law is full of new restrictions for the government to use for denying care to seniors. The panels created by the ACA for the purpose of determining which treatments are cost effective are in fact the famous death panels referred to by Sarah Palin and they cannot be construed in any way as improving healthcare. The $716 billion dollars in Medicare benefit cuts for the purpose of funding the ACA cannot and will not improve healthcare for senior citizens. The Democratic lawmakers defeated every effort by Republicans to add a doctor fix to the legislation before it passed which now guarantees that fewer doctors will accept Medicare patients. The law is built to deny care to the high cost senior patient on the one hand and to also control access healthcare for everyone else on the other. Today we have just learned that when the open enrollment period for Obamacare ended, the law also shut off the opportunity for Americans to purchase private insurance unless the government grants you an exception. You see it is about controlling us by limiting our access to healthcare and granting that care to only those deemed worthy by the executive branch of the Federal Government. The law is riddled with clauses granting sole authority over healthcare access to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Keep in mind that the HHS Department itself is not covered in the Constitution as one of the enumerated powers granted to the Federal Government. It is therefore expressly denied to the Federal Government and the only reason we are suffering the effects of this legislation today and the continuing oppression of the population courtesy of HHS is the continuous erosion of our Constitutional rights at the hands of the progressives.  

Estimates vary as to the effectiveness of the ACA at getting insurance to those Americans that formerly had no health insurance. Proponents of the law claim that about 1 out of every five people who did not have insurance before the law passed now have health insurance; the laws detractors place the number closer to 1 in 7. I submit that either of the numbers paints a very dark picture of the laws effects. The real increase in premium cost for the average American is 50 to 100% accompanied by larger deductibles and restrictions on our ability to select our own doctors. The administration chastised those of us who challenge the legality and efficacy of the law for trying to deny healthcare to our neighbors when in fact nothing in our history has ever restricted access to healthcare as efficiently as the damn law itself. The question is not why they can’t see the negative impacts of the law but why is it that they don’t care. I believe that it is because the progressives are willing to let Americans suffer the consequences as long as they gain complete control and they can finally end this attempt at government by the people.