Obamacare

This is what happens when we let government take over our healthcare system. Quote: "Maybe I’m just getting carried away by the spirit of American Dream week, but if Trump actually follows through with a threat he tweeted over the weekend, we could see the hastening of Obamacare’s collapse. It’s just too bad it won’t take the health insurance industry down with it. Actually, I don’t think industry, with its connotation of private enterprise and exertion, is any longer the right word. The late great Joseph Rago of the Wall Street Journal foresaw that Obamacare would “convert insurers into government contractors in the business of fulfilling political demands.” Rago was arguing (against PolitiFact) that Obamacare did indeed represent a de facto “government takeover of health care,” even if it wasn’t overt nationalization. Rago was right in one sense, but considering the way the health insurance industry shaped Obamacare and attached itself to our wallets, not to mention its ability to thwart reforms, it’s just as valid to regard Obamacare as an industry takeover of government to force products on an unreceptive market. This goes beyond crony capitalism. We’ve had a form of crony capitalism here ever since WWII, when the government created tax incentives for employer-provided health insurance, which had the unfortunateside effect of insulating the industry from the demands of customer service. (Or has anyone ever heard of an HR department switching health plans because an employee was unhappy?)  https://spectator.org/sovietcare-looks-good-to-investors/?

No one can convince me that saving Obamacare is a good idea.  Things are bad and getting worse.  It abysmal failure is proof that government needs to get its incompetent hands and political hubris out of the healthcare business.  http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/new-census-bureau-uninsured-numbers-show-obamacare-has-peaked/

Congress needs to plant this Obamacare failure squarely on the backs of Democrats who alone crafted this monstrosity.  Obamacare is an abject failure and needs to be repealed now before it totally collapses our healthcare system and ruins more innocent lives. https://www.conventionofstates.com/obamacare_nightmare_spreads_to_iowa?  

More information that suggests Obamacare needs to be jettisoned.   http://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/how-cutting-obamacare-subsidies-could-help-the-poor/   This is bad for many who will have no access to health insurance.  Quote: "Projections are that 63 counties across the country will have no Obamacare exchange provider in 2018.   http://freebeacon.com/issues/63-counties-projected-no-obamacare-insurer-2018/?