Pundits lately have been pointing to raising healthcare costs and the granting of exemptions to over 100 unions and corporations as evidence that ObamaCare is hopelessly broken. On the contrary, I would argue that ObamaCare is working exactly as Democrats intended. It was never meant to improve the existing healthcare system or provide coverage to those who don’t have it… it was specifically designed to collapse the private insurance industry by driving up costs leaving Americans no other choice but turn to the government for their healthcare needs, and in that respect it is a resounding success.
The ultimate goal of Democrat healthcare reform has always been single payer. The original plan was to create a public option with limited enrollment while planting the seeds for the collapse of the private healthcare system. By getting rid of preexisting conditions, lifetime caps on payouts and elevating minimum coverage requirements, the stage was set for private insurance costs to necessarily skyrocket.
Democrats were fully aware that millions of Americans would lose their healthcare insurance because of the legislation. Using the “you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs” rational, they are prepared to sacrifice the health of Americans in order to achieve their goal… total government takeover of the healthcare system.
Obama admitted as much a few weeks ago when he went on the Jon Stewart Show
and said this, “We’ve put a framework in place that (will allow) us to continue to make progress.” By progress he means the complete destruction of the private healthcare insurance industry in America.
By categorizing ObamaCare as a “failure” does a disservice to the American people. In actuality millions of Americans losing their coverage is exactly what Obama and Democrats had in mind when they created the legislation in the first place.
Never Let a Crisis Go To Waste
The election of Scott Brown put a crimp in the Democrat’s plans. Because of the limitations of the reconciliation process, they couldn’t just jam the public option into the final version of the bill. This meant the loss of government safety net that Democrats had planned to replace the private insurance industry.
Rather than backing off and starting again, Democrats went ahead and passed a bill that had all the “destroy private healthcare” provisions in it without any of the “nanny state coverage”. They figured that once millions of Americans lost their insurance the people would demand government run healthcare.
Pelosi, Reid and Obama had no problem creating a law designed to intentionally hurt the American people, but when faced with the prospect of a public backlash they caved and granted exceptions to 111 businesses and unions that will allow 1.2 million to keep their current plan.
For every exemption the administration granted, there are dozens more businesses that don’t have the political connections to get one of their own, meaning many Americans will lose their healthcare insurance starting in 2011 with many more to follow. It has been estimated that
20% of small businesses and 6% with 500 or more employees will drop healthcare coverage altogether by 2014.
The Democrat’s attempt to manufacture one of their patented “crises” has backfired. Rather than being in a position to push through single payer in the next election cycle as they had hoped, their overreach has energized the conservative resurgence that wiped out Congressional Democrats in 2010 and will sweep Obama out of office in 2012.
Then the only sensible solution will be the full repeal of ObamaCare.
