As I wrote about in my earlier post….the whole system was designed to fail and either lawmakers were too stupid to understand this or knew it from the beginning, and wanted it:
From the administration’s point of view, conceding that key parts of Obamacare cannot be implemented isn’t a failure if the effect is to swell enrollment on the exchanges. The insurance subsidy entitlement, administered through the exchanges, is the single-payer scheme at the heart of the law. If you peel away provisions like the employer mandate and Medicaid expansion, what’s left is a universal health care entitlement—enforced through the individual mandate and administered through the exchanges.
They wanted single payer, couldn’t get it 4 years ago, but now Harry Reid has read his ouija board and it now tells him its ok to talk about their real intentions:
Reid said he thinks the country has to “work our way past” insurance-based health care during a Friday night appearance on Vegas PBS’ program “Nevada Week in Review.”
“What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever,” Reid said.
When then asked by panelist Steve Sebelius whether he meant ultimately the country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance as the means of accessing it, Reid said: “Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.”
The idea of introducing a single-payer national health care system to the United States, or even just a public option, sent lawmakers into a tizzy back in 2009, when Reid was negotiating the health care bill.
“We had a real good run at the public option … don’t think we didn’t have a tremendous number of people who wanted a single-payer system,” Reid said on the PBS program, recalling how then-Sen. Joe Lieberman’s opposition to the idea of a public option made them abandon the notion and start from scratch.
Eventually, Reid decided the public option was unworkable.
“We had to get a majority of votes,” Reid said. “In fact, we had to get a little extra in the Senate, we have to get 60.”
So there it is. They knew they couldn’t get it past the American people as single-payer a few years ago so they made a plan that first will get people hooked on the Socialist drug…you know “reduced cost, improved benefits, increased availability” and all that bulls**t. But when costs start spiraling, and people start being fired, reduced hours, or straight up told to go to the exchanges by their employer….then you know the disaster has hit.
And by that point no one will be able to get rid of it.
Socialism here we come.
The thing to keep your eye on is the ObamaCare singularity: the public exchanges. That’s the rotten, malfunctioning, high-cost, low-choice, subsidized hell more and more Americans are tumbling helplessly into. That’s the pit every labor union in America, and the six-figure sultans of Congress, refuse to fall into. The public exchanges will turn into a deficit bomb powerful enough to cause all-out panic in Washington, as their cost soars four, five, and six hundred percent beyond anything the ObamaCare con artists estimated in 2010. That’s when they’ll come back and tell us that only absolute government control – the outright nationalization of one-seventh of the American economy – is the only possible solution.
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