It hasn’t been repealed yet, according to Reason‘s Peter Suderman:
In a Washington Post op-ed titled “The Affordable Care Act, helping Americans curb costs,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius touts ObamaCare’s alleged cost-control provisions, noting that “one of the major reasons we passed the Affordable Care Actwas to bring down costs…”
You’ll notice, however, that there’s something missing from the op-ed: any mention of actual health insurance premium prices. That’s not particularly surprising, I suppose, given that the premise of the piece is that the law helps make health care cheaper, yet since the law passed, family health insurance premiums have risen substantially faster than in the years before the law went into effect, rising nine percent following several years of three to five percent rises.
Increasing demand on a static supply system raises costs?
Who knew?
Zombie over at PJMedia has a great post on the psychology of Obamanomics and its workings/fundamental fallacies@ http://www.pjmedia.com/zombie/2012/01/13/the-leaf-blower-paradox-and-the-fundamental-fallacy-of-obamanomics/
I had to laugh at the leaf blowing antics of the “Gardeners.”
The current maladminstration keeps confirming they know nothing of economics and that ideology controls rather than reality. Sooner or later, however, reality comes back and bites you on the posterior.
Awesome understanding! Seen the same thing in a major shipyard….but only us Naval types would grasp the analogy.
When you cancel your health because you can’t afford it…Voila!. Savings to you! Obamanomics…..we should be thanking him.
“Increasing demand on a static supply system raises costs? Who knew?”
The Gospel of Obammunism does not recognize supply and demand. It only recognizes exploitation of the Proletariat by the Bourgeoisie. You need to watch your capitalist counter-revolutionary talk, good sir! Or else you shall be arrested and held indefinitely without charges. You violent extremist, you. After all, due process is only for the innocent and politically palatable.
Your static supply system will be anything but, as physicians and clinicians will be bailing out of patient treatment like geese flying south for the winter. Higher education and operating costs, less money, and larger patient loads will see to that.
URR/
I’ve often said I want to be one of two guys: a) the guy who has a lock on the sale of flood ins in every island in the Carrib. as every specialist in the US East of the Miss R. will relocate there and they’ll all sink under the weight, or, alternatively, b) have exclusive rights as an RE Agent on sales of all land in Mexico within 50 mi of the US border as every specialist in the US West of the Miss. sets up shop “down Mexico way.”
PS: I’m only half joking…I’m learning Spanish on Rosetta Stone and studying for my Mexican RE lisc (or would be if they let gringos sell & own RE)–I’ve already got the ins lisc., lol.
Seriously VX, my mother said that 20 years ago. Only she thought they would all be moving to Brazil.
The LUC ALWAYS raises its ugly head and bites us in the ass when laws are made on emotion rather than reason. The capons in office, of all stripes, never seem to get that.
Lower costs for providers, not consumers. Gotta take care of campaign donors not taxpayers.
That is EXACTLY how Obama and his ilk thinks.
Silly Lex!
For Libruls the results of their policies do not matter. Intentions are what matters. And since they care so much more than you, they are better people.
When will all of you finally learn that “Things are different when you are a dimocrat”. Laws do not apply to you,
the constitution is an evolving document, what you said yesterday in “no longer operative” and outright lies are “mis-spoken’.
Oh yes, it all depend upon what the meaning of is is.
Can any dim speak without lying?
Health care; economy; foreign affairs – this group has no clue beyond paying their friends and putting their kind into key government positions to work their evil against this country for years to come. Allowing them to continue past November cannot be allowed.
Steve,
Disagree entirely. They have done exactly what they want to do, and are getting the results they desire. The destruction of our market economy, replacing it with a government-dominated socialist/communist model that will perpetuate a permanent dependent class who will vote for whomever promises them the most of my money.
As for foreign affairs, the current Administration and its supporters have had a long time goal of reducing this country to just another country, whose interests and leverage is at the mercy of a world government controlled by those who despise us. Damned successful on that, too, so far. Wait’ll you see the Defense cuts that are sure to come. If you think current discussion is bad, I would advise you that those cuts are just for starters with this group.
I think the consequences are entirely anticipated. The man is a wannabe dictator.
I hate to agree, but I’m having a hard time believing the consequence mentioned wasn’t intended.
I think that the radio commentators who were first talking against Obamacare said from the outset that the intention was to get everyone onto government healthcare and that private health insurance costs would rise so much that there would be no choice despite the claim that we could “choose”. Intended – yep.
“Kate, meet Mr. Orwell.”
Because health care costs are almost entirely domestic, they may be roughly equated to domestic health care-related jobs.
“Reducing costs” can ever only be rhetoric, because no politician wants to see people in his district have to suffer through personal stress (i.e. potential career change) in order to provide continuing value to the economy. “Reducing jobs” just doesn’t play well in campaign advertising. Thus we find that cost reduction is rarely achieved in any government activity because it will never be a sincere goal of Party members no matter which wing of the Party holds power at the time.
The nation gets what it asks for. We’ve asked to become the 1970s-1980s Soviet Union and we’re rapidly succeeding. It’s been shown before that “amassing debt” makes a poor cornerstone for national strategy… although for a while it does pretty well at securing office with an electorate of dunces.
OT: I just went back to the 14 December thread and comments were closed.
So I’ll say it here:
Tim who?
Go PATS!
The Broncos didn’t stand a chance as they have no defense. The offense didn’t help by allowing the defense so much playing time they were worn out. They seemed to pick up a bit in the 2nd half, but the game was lost by the end of the first quarter.
As a friend in church said this morning, “A perfect Super Bowl game. It was full of suspense to the 20 second point.”
Military retirees- Remember that “free health care for life for you and your dependents” that was promised?
At age 65 you are REQUIRED to sign up for MEDICARE Part B, which will then bill you for about $$120 per month for you and an additional $120 per month to have you covered under MEDICARE. Fortunately, at least for now, Tricare fFor Life kicks in after Medicare pays for whatever they decide they will pay for, and covers pretty much the rest of cost.
Stand by for heavy rolls, however, as budget cuts will probably cut the amount TFL will pay for, or dump retirees onto Obamacare entirely.
Obamacare MUST be repealed competely, rooting out every mandate, report and requirement to prevent it ever sprouting up again.
The longer this goes, the less likely it seems the Reps are going to repeal it. Given their history, I’m not looking for it.
Personally, I anticipate the GOP pulling defeat from the jaws of victory again. It’s looking like we are about to have McCain 2012.
“Gravity is not optional, kid.”
But the dims think it is….