The American Awakening
Stanley Feld
M.D.,FACP,MACE
Many of my good liberal
friends have been upset with me since Obamacare was passed into law.
I read the 2000 plus
page bill. I was distressed by the many changes to Americans’ freedom to
choose, increased hidden taxes, and the obvious road to the destruction of the
healthcare system.
I immediately regretted
my vote in 2008 for President Obama even though I liked the guy’s style.
I felt he knew little
about how the healthcare system worked. I soon learned he was not interested in
listening to practicing physicians.
I have tried to follow
the 20,000 new regulations that have served to increase the mess that has been
created. I have reported on some of them.
Unfortunately the
traditional media has remained enamored by President Obama’s charm. The
traditional media had continued to dismiss reality until the recent web site
disaster.
The Obamacare disaster
is much worse than the web site disaster by itself. I sense the traditional
media is buying the explanation.
The reality is this web
site disaster represents the worst example of cronyism. It is even worse than
the Solyndra scandal. The Solyndra scandal on cost $535 million in federal guarantees .
The administration
issued a non- bid contract of $634 million dollars to a company in which an
executive is a good friend of Michelle Obama. CGI’s web site looks fantastic.
The reality is they have had health insurance exchange software programs that
have failed in three provinces in Canada.
President Obama has been
lying his way through the web site disaster. The bizarre thing is he thinks he
will get away with it.
http://videos.nymag.com/video/If-You-Like-Your-Plan-Supercut
The public is becoming aware of the fact that Americans are
losing their healthcare coverage by political design.
President Obama is rapidly losing the trust Americans had in
him as reflected in the polls. They fear they might lose their own healthcare
coverage next.
“The
law is systematically dismantling the individual insurance market, as its
architects intended from the start.”
I have been saying this since 2008. The aim of
Obamacare is for Americans to not to have a choice remaining. It will be a
single party payer system by default.
The traditional media is waking up. The first
wave is the 14 million people in the individual insurance market. Those 14
million Americans are being trapped into Obamacare. The 14 million are making a
big stink. President Obama is caught in an outright lie.
“Until
this month, consumers who weren't insured through their jobs were allowed to
buy insurance that provides the best value based on their own needs. One of
every 10 private policies is sold through the individual market, covering about
7% of the U.S. population under age 65.”
President Obama did a clever thing. He gave a
waiver to the group insurance market until 2015. The traditional wisdom is that
the waivers were given because Obamacare was not ready to service the group
market.
The real reason for the waiver was to avoid
the uproar from 160 million people who have group insurance.
The 160 million Americans who will lose their
group insurance coverage next year will find out they have been deceived by
President Obama.
President
Obama has blamed Fox News for inciting people to be against Obamacare. A reader
sent me this You Tube of Neil Cavuto's reply to President Obama. Mr. Cavuto
hits the nail on its head.
“Cavuto: Mr. President, we at Fox News are not
the problem.”
President
Obama felt that free choice is a threat to Obamacare. If too many
people could keep the insurance policies they liked instead of joining the
government exchanges Obamacare could fail.
It has
been now been shown that his goal in 2010 was to destroy the private healthcare
coverage market.
“Liberals
believe they must destroy the market in order to save it.”
The healthcare plans
the President promised people could keep have been intentionally outlawed by
regulations written by Kathleen Sibelius in the Federal Register as far back as
2010.
“The
goal is to force individuals earning more than $46,000 or a family of four
above $94,000, who don't qualify for subsidies, into the overpriced health
insurance exchange.”
“If these middle-class ObamaCare
losers can be forced into the exchanges, they become financiers of the new
pay-as-you-go entitlement.”
They
will pay $10,000 a year for a healthcare plan that people earning under that
amount will pay less than $1,000 per year. The government subsidy will finance
the difference.
If
enough people earning more than $46,000 and $94,000 a year do not sign up for
Obamacare, the federal government will have to make up the difference to the
insurance company that is providing the administrative services for that
healthcare coverage.
I hope
people remember another of President Obama’s promises. He said families making
under $250,000 a year would not pay one
dime extra in taxes. The traditional media has ignored this lie.
The operative
word that exposes the lie is “Not a
penny more in taxes on nothing because the last thing we want to do is to put a
burden on the middle class.”
What
about all the hidden taxes? What about all the tax increases passed on to the
middle class in the form of increased prices?
One
can say President Obama is a genius as well as a liar. His goal is to destroy
the healthcare system and the middle class.
He is
on course to succeed unless the American people stop him.
I am
pleased that Americans are starting to wake up to his goals and are starting to
rebel.
The opinions expressed in the blog “Repairing The Healthcare System” are, mine and mine alone
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