That is not a bold prediction, just common sense.\u00a0 To address a limited problem\u201440 million people lacked health insurance, often by their own choosing\u2014the ACA screwed up the entire U.S. health insurance and healthcare systems, severely damaging the economy in the process.\u00a0 The law will be repealed by Republicans, along with Democrats interested in keeping their jobs, because . . . .<\/p>\n
Reason Number 13.\u00a0\u00a0 The economy sucks<\/b> for the average worker, making Democrats politically vulnerable even apart from Obamacare.\u00a0 They can\u2019t blame G. W. Bush forever.<\/p>\n
Reason Number 12\u00a0 \u00a0Barack who?<\/b>\u00a0 His influence is fading fast, and he is too arrogant and aloof to have many friends on Capitol Hill.\u00a0 Congressmen are more interested in saving their own careers than Obama\u2019s lamentable \u201clegacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reason Number 11\u00a0 Wrath of Middle Class Independents\u00a0 <\/b>\u00a0Participants in the \u201cindividual market\u201d have already been shocked by losing their current plans and being forced into more expensive plans that have higher deductibles, many features they don\u2019t need, and less choice of hospitals and doctors.\u00a0 Next year the same fate awaits tens of millions of people employed by small and mid-sized businesses that don\u2019t \u201cself-insure.\u201d\u00a0 Many of these Obamacare victims are independent voters.<\/p>\n
Reason Number 10.\u00a0 Doctor No<\/b>.\u00a0 Over the next two years people who are kicked off their current plans will discover, or be rudely reminded when they get sick or injured, that their family doctor won\u2019t see them anymore. \u00a0He or she is \u201cout of network.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reason Number 9.\u00a0 Mauled Millennials\u00a0 <\/b>Twenty-somethings will fall out of love with Democrats when they grasp that, in addition to high unemployment, huge education debts, and Social Security that may not be there when they retire, they must either pay a fine to the IRS or buy over-priced insurance.<\/p>\n
Reason Number 8.\u00a0 Low income workers get screwed too<\/b>.\u00a0 Many will be lured into Medicaid and experience severe doctor shortages.\u00a0 Some low-income people with tight budgets who make too much to quality for big subsidies will face the terrible choice of A) buying more expensive insurance than they can afford, B) foregoing coverage and paying a fine, or C) reducing their income so they qualify for Obamacare subsidies.<\/p>\n
Reason Number \u00a07.\u00a0 Democrats\u2019 War on Women<\/b>, who grapple with health insurance issues in a large majority of American households.<\/p>\n
Reason Number 6.\u00a0\u00a0 Labor Pain<\/b>s —<\/strong> Obamacare discombobulates the U.S. labor market by encouraging firms to both stay \u201cunder the limit\u201d of 50 full-time workers and to restrict workers to 29 hours per week.<\/p>\n Reason Number 5.\u00a0 The Website from Hell<\/b> won\u2019t really function as intended for many months, if ever.\u00a0 The \u201cback end\u201d linking consumers with insurance companies still has not been built.\u00a0 And don\u2019t forget the high risk of security breaches.<\/p>\n Reason Number \u00a04.\u00a0 The few \u201cwinners\u201d from the law are already Democrats<\/b>\u2014namely, low income people who get insurance for the first time, for free.<\/p>\n Reason Number \u00a03.\u00a0 Exacerbating inequality<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0In true crony capitalist fashion, Obamacare hurts small and mid-sized businesses but leaves unscathed government workers and employees of giant corporations that self-insure.\u00a0 This is patently unfair.<\/p>\n Reason \u00a02.\u00a0 Fiscal Fiasco<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0 Congress will have to plug a gaping money hole when the actuarial arithmetic does not work because the young, healthy and overcharged refuse to enroll and, in many cases, manage to evade the IRS.\u00a0 With total Federal discretionary spending squeezed by sequestration, Democrats will find their entire domestic agenda swallowed up funding and defending an unpopular, dysfunctional law.<\/p>\n And the NUMBER ONE REASON WHY OBAMACARE WILL BE REPEALED:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Fraud<\/b>.\u00a0 The plan has no political legitimacy because it was sold on the false promise that if you like your current plan and doctor you can keep them.<\/p>\n Copyright Thomas Doerflinger 2013.\u00a0 All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That is not a bold prediction, just common sense.\u00a0 To address a limited problem\u201440 million people lacked health insurance, often by their own choosing\u2014the ACA screwed up the entire U.S. health insurance and healthcare systems, severely damaging the economy in … Continue reading