New Attitude

I had been suffering through a period of political depression, if you will, where I was loathe to get into "debates" on internet message boards because I felt as if nobody was looking at the serious fundamental issues with Obamacare. Not the web site mind you, but the basic economic incentives that were in it and what effect they were going to have on our economy, our healthcare system and our insurance industry. I was constantly poo-pooed as not knowing what I was talking about, and had to endure lectures from Paul Krugman fans on why I was so wrong about rates going up, people losing their coverage or just plain old meddling by the government in the economy.


But suddenly, the message boards are just delicious. I have gotten almost giddy reading the liberal responses to all the things I had been predicting for months. The best ones are when some conservative (or increasingly, a moderate Democrat) will rip into Obama for lying about not losing your coverage, doctor etc. Talk about changing the subject! It usually goes like this:
Conservative: He didn't mince words. He said you could keep your insurance NO MATTER WHAT! But he knew all along they were going to get dropped.
Looney Liberal: Oh yeah? Well Bush said there were WMD's.It's so pathetic it's funny.But the best one was the guy who got infuriated that Obama was being called a liar. He tried to say that Obama had merely been talking about what he hoped would be attained. You can't expect to hold him to a campaign promise.No, that would be more like Scott Walker saying he would create 250,000 jobs. That would be a hoped for goal. Saying you won't lose your health care "no matter what" when you know that's not true, is lying about a fact. But they cannot stop spinning and the results are just hilarious. There are several strategies they are trying. the first is to claim Obamacare is actually a Rebublican bill. They wanted something else entirely but got this forced on them by Republicans, who weren't able to add a single amendment and consequently did not give it a single vote in either house. Fallback position number one is to say that the coverage you are losing was really awful and you should be glad to be rid of it because your new policy wil cover so much more and be so much better for you. Cost? Oh, why worry about that? It's better! Don't you want better insurance? If you get that cheap stuff it won't pay for your drug rehab or maternity coverage. Well yes, it is true that being a young Amish man might lead you to believe you don't need that, but somebody's got to buy that expensive stuff so we can cover all those existing conditions. but their ultimate ploy will be to blame the insurance companies.  Just read this from the Huffington Post where they try and explain that Obama didn't lie about keeping your coverage.



 "In other words, your plan is grandfathered in unless your insurer explicitly makes it worse by jacking up your deductible or otherwise monkeying with your coverage in an attempt to screw you, which is the basic stated business model of insurance companies."

Of course he conveniently glosses over the fact that it was Obamacare that REQUIRED all these changes, which in turn invalidated your ability to keep it. They really have no respect for your intelligence.