As I point out in my treatise on Obamacare, insurance premiums MUST go up on almost everyone. Not only is the Medicaid limit being raised up significantly, but subsidies will be paid to people who don’t qualify for Medicaid even under the new standards. Further, you have minimum deductibles, they have to cover “wellness” visits, etc.
Add on top of this the Obamacare bureaucracy which must be paid for as well. This will come out of tax revenue, but it will no doubt be costly. It cost over half a billion dollars to build a website that could have been done in the private sector for $500,000, or 1/1,000th as much, and at that the website DOESN’T WORK.
And I don’t buy the argument that the flaws are intentional. They know they can’t hide the true premium hikes forever, and certainly not until the next election. I think the contract was given to Michelle Obama’s buddy because they believe in the spoils system, likely in exchange for favors of some sort, like divulging personal details of political enemies; and her buddy was not equal to the job. Full stop. Taxpayer money used to pay bribes to people who should not have won the contract.
Obamacare can only be seen as yet one more way of sucking money out of the productive and funneling it to the unproductive or less productive–income is an accurate measurement of one’s economic usefulness in a free market, which is fair–all in order to get votes.
But I think Obamacare sucks so epically that it is going to FORCE leftists to admit that government is not always the answer, that it can’t reliably be trusted, and that Obama LIED about the outcomes to be expected.
I also think that if Republicans get smart and start courting blacks, we have a historic opportunity to roll back the sustained assault on our liberties and common decency that has been the project of the Left over the last century or so.
As Charles Barkley pointed out: “the poor have been voting Democrat for 50 years and they are still poor.”