I would add the following commentary to the current Obamacare discussion:
* It is important to keep in the back of one’s mind during the entire debate how Obamacare has evolved on the fly. When Obama was campaigning he said he wanted a “single-payer system,” not what he has since claimed he wants now.
* For someone who has repeatedly argued for the country to have universal health care coverage yesterday, Obama has sure delayed the process:
— The delay of the employer mandates until 2015;
— The recent delay of the insurance companies’ compliance with ACA standards; and
— Obama claimed much political credit for the 2012 campaign for having “passed” the ACA in 2009, but none of it actually goes in effect until now and even then we have further delays as listed above. Perhaps after Obama was safely re-elected and therefore too late to be held politically accountable for the act’s potentially disastrous results?
* Obama makes sure everyone is covered on the insurance end (to which we are now finding out that is more than highly questionable), but what about all the infrastructure, equipment and personnel that is going to be required to handle all of the new patients? Oops.
* Because of the health care cancellations, further delays and non-working websites possibly being monitored by ex-cons, public trust is waning. That causes a mega problem, because people need to sign up in order for this program to work. People are not going to jump on board with a program they do not trust.
* It is not lost on me that some of the normally biggest loud-mouths in this community, now faced with the current situation on Obamacare, have fallen deafeningly silent.

David Musser

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