With the leadership vacuum in Washington why is it such a surprise that ObamaCare sucks!

The American People are finally learning about ObamaCare. Up until now most people only knew what Democrats and Republicans were saying about the program. It turns out that both parties were missing the point. Democrats were describing ObamaCare as the solution to all our problems. Finally the U.S. would join all the other civilized nations in the world with free health care for all. They ignored the fact that we already had the best health care system in the world, that everyone who needed treatment was already getting it, and that this was largely because the federal government wasn’t involved. Republicans were complaining about the enormous cost and the government takeover of the health care system.

What makes ObamaCare unique is that it is totally partisan. It was passed by a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate and it was signed by a Democratic President without one single Republican vote. Actually it was worse than that. In order to secure enough votes, the Obama administration resorted to the “Louisiana Purchase” and the “Cornhusker Kickback” to get over the top. But wait, there was more to come. When Ted Kennedy died, Massachusetts violated its own law so Governor Patrick could make a temporary appointment to the Senate just in time to cast the deciding vote. What a country. Then, just recently, Democrats doubled down on ObamaCare when they shut down the government rather than delay it or negotiate any changes.

All of this nonsense took place during a time when no one even knew what ObamaCare was all about. This monstrous bill was over 10,000 plus pages long and few, if any, understood it. I don’t know what Democrats thought they were voting for in 2009, but I can pretty much guarantee it wasn’t the national flop that was launched on October 1.

ObamaCare is a return to the Sears catalog theory of marketing. I called this the “good,” “better,” “best” approach. Suppose you wanted to purchase a refrigerator. You could purchase good, which didn’t look all that good, or better, which was nicer than good but still not quite up to par, or best, which was always too expensive. Ultimately, which ever choice you made left you feeling uneasy. If you bought good, you wondered if good was really good or were you buying an inferior product. Plus you felt a little embarrassed that you could only afford good. All the neighbors had a Sear catalog too, so they knew you took the cheap out. But better was always a lot more expensive than good, but still a second class product. And if you bought best, you always wondered if you had been tricked into paying too much for features you didn’t want or need.

Well ObamaCare is set up on the same model. But Instead of good, better or best, you get “Bronze,” “Silver,” “Gold” or “Platinum.” Now it’s one thing to feel you are getting an inferior product, when buying a refrigerator, but what if you are being asked to settle for inferior coverage when it comes to something as important as health care ?  That is a real problem. Suddenly it becomes obvious that if you can only afford “Bronze” or “Silver” you are automatically a third or fourth class citizen. And this time, being a fourth class citizen means that getting actual treatment costs more.  On the other hand, “Platinum” is not all that spectacular, compared to what is available in the market place for people who can afford to pay the platinum price.

In other words, ObamaCare sucks. It not only costs too much, it is not only killing the economy, it is not only bankrupting the federal government; it sucks. It sucks the most for those who were waiting desperately for the greatest thing since sliced bread. What is worse than being forced to buy a government designed piece of crap with a one size fits all mentality? Easy. Being forced to buy a government designed piece of crap where rich people get much better health care coverage because they can afford to pay for Gold or Platinum The richer you are the better the plan you can afford and the lower the cost you pay for actual treatment. What idiot came up with this idea?

I thought ObamaCare was going to crash and burn because the Obama administration bit off ten times the amount they could chew. I was right about that, by the way. I thought ObamaCare would crash and burn because it would raise the cost of health care for everyone. I was right about that too. I thought ObamaCare was going to crash and burn because it would make obtaining good health care harder for everyone. I was also right about that. But what I missed was the potential that ObamaCare would be so poorly designed that the product itself is the biggest problem. It won’t take long for the poor, who desperately longed for free healthcare to realize that ObamaCare is more expensive, it provides less coverage and it makes them feel even more like second class citizens (oops…third or fourth class citizens). To add insult to the injury, if you don’t want ObamaCare you have to pay a fine.

I am now convinced that ObamaCare will be a catastrophic failure on the level of the Edsel. They will be talking about the stupidity of this design long after ObamaCare has been dumped on the scrapheap of history. Just imagine what is going to happen with all those liberals find out they have sold their soul, assuming they still believe they have a soul, for a piece of crap like this. When socialism fails, as it always does, liberals turn on their leaders. Obama will get most of the blame for this, but Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi can also cancel their dreams of making the liberal hall of fame.  Liberals will be convinced that victory was in their grasp, if only Obama had been able to provide better guidance on the path to nirvana.

I wonder how long it will take the MSM to figure this out?

TDM