Obamacare fallacy is alive and well

Unconstitutional from its inception due to the fact that no revenue legislation can originate in the Senate (which the ACA did by including the individual mandate), that this key aspect was demonetized by Congress' tax overhaul in 2017 didn't change anything. All the squirmings by Chief Justice John Roberts in 2012 officially dubbing the mandate a tax instead of a fee only confirmed the unconstitutionality of Obamacare rather than the opposite. The challenge to ACA to which a federal judge in Texas agreed, ruling the law unconstitutional because the mandate's teeth were extracted in passing the 2017 tax law by reducing it to zero, only adds to the clowning that this unaffordable Affordable Care Act instituted from the outset. One could even argue that this case further muddies the waters regarding ACA's constitutionality as the mandate continues to be the political football thrown for a touchback. The game was always hinged on a bad play. All that aside, Attorney General William Barr, seated before the House Judiciary Committee last week, was berated by democrat members about the law possibly being stricken causing millions of Americans (inflated from 16 to 20 to 21 million within a matter of a few remarks by the press) to "catastrophically]" lose their coverage. The circus atmosphere was complete as congressmen bemoaned the ACA enrollees' possible loss of insurance. A number that opposes the millions of privately insured individuals who did lose their coverage due to this offensively bad law. What's worse is the lie that the bill would cover 30 million uninsured (less than a tenth of U.S population and at an exorbitant cost to taxpayers) when it only managed to cover 16 million by 2017 while stripping hard working Americans of their employer-based insurance.

In fact, the ACA is so untenable as "expanded Medicaid" that unless applicants without assets are over 65 and can receive Medicare, are blind, have a blind or disabled minor dependent (information received via confidential interviews) or other peculiar circumstance, those originally promised coverage are not eligible for Obamacare. Pre-existing conditions became less insurable related to the bleeding of insurers who backed out of 25 states. It was always a farce. When democrats go after republicans citing how Americans will lose insurance coverage, they conveniently forget those millions who lost insurance because of government appropriating a sixth of the economy, destroying household finances in its wake. But that was the democrat strategy from the beginning and such has not changed as Bernie Sanders and his socialist comrades tout the "benefits" of single payer. The democrats are unapologetically willing to institutionalize heartache along with the heart disease they will not cover. For those of us sick and tired of hearing about the wonders of government-run healthcare, it is imperative to share the failures of other nations' programs such as Britain's National Health Service where patients wait months for desperately needed procedures.

The outcome is unknown regarding the DOJ's standing back and allowing the challenge to the ACA's constitutionality in connection to the individual mandate to go forward. That Obamacare was always unconstitutional is evident and replacement was never a good idea. The problem with American healthcare has been the unlimited litigation instigated against providers that ballooned insurance rates for everyone. It can be remedied by reforming tort law that now enables attorneys (who populate the majority of state and federal legislative seats) to sue without constraint or compunction. The free market is and has always been the best answer to business, whether talking manufacturing, construction or healthcare. When Obamacare is struck down, as it should be, Americans must make sure government is never allowed to manage healthcare again or it will go the same way the left would like to steer cattle, the combustion engine and air travel--into extinction. Note: To get a read on where government managed healthcare could really go, Blood Barons is the book for inquiring minds, incorporating facts into a gripping suspense tale. It sounds like science fiction but it isn't.