Barbara Boxer & Chelsea Clinton join Bill Clinton in slamming ObamaCare

On Tuesday, I talked about the real reason Bill Clinton and The New York Times had suddenly decided to attack ObamaCare as an expensive, confusing, unworkable mess. Far from being an off-the-cuff comment, I argued, Bill was doing exactly what he'd been ordered to do. The left is salivating over the federal power that would come with a single payer system, Hillary's wanted one for decades, and they need to boost support in key liberal demos. This is their pivot moment. As I wrote two days ago:

It's time to pivot toward single payer. Of course, this was the plan all along. ObamaCare was designed to fail. It was, famously, a "step on the path" to a fully government-run system. Hillary has decided it's time to move forward on the road to single-payer. Right now, Hillary is struggling among many of her formerly loyal demos. She desperately needs something that will generate excitement among young liberals. If you're a basement-dwelling socialist who's angry about the destruction of Bernie Sanders, nothing gets you pumped up like the idea that the feds could take control of every doctor in the country. This will be Hillary's last great play of the 2016 cycle: Get millennials on board by promising (or intimating) to enact the greatest federal expansion in the history of the nation. Bill is laying the groundwork, and none other than the New York Times is announcing the plan by suggesting the "ailing" ObamaCare "will have to change to survive":

Now I have more evidence that I was absolutely correct. Both Barbara Boxer and Chelsea Clinton have chimed in and, lo and behold, they think ObamaCare has a lot of problems too.

Here's Chelsea admitting that "we do need to work on the ‘affordable’ part of the Affordable Care Act.” It's not affordable? Get right out of town. If only there had been an army - a veritable legion - of conservative voices saying exactly this before the bill was passed. Not to be outdone, here's Barbara Boxer, defending Bill Clinton's initial remarks. Speaking of Clinton, Boxer says “Maybe he was inartful, I’ll give him that. I love him because he speaks from the heart. He’s saying it like it is. Of course we have to keep on working to make Obamacare better. Of course we have to fix the problems."

Oh. It just needs to be "fixed." Anyone care to guess what that fix will be? That's right. Single-payer. Boxer even makes the argument that will be the foundation for the single-payer push. "The Republicans don’t want to make Obamacare better, because they want to repeal it and throw 20 million people out of the program. That’s what Donald Trump wants to do, so I’m not defensive about the fact we have to fix it." Since you can't just throw people out of the system, you need to expand it. ...To all people. Remember: Government is the only God liberals worship. In their view, there's only one way to "make it better." You have to make it bigger, more powerful, more intrusive, and more expensive.

Robert Laurie——Bio and Archives

Robert Laurie’s column is distributed by HermanCain.com, which can be found at HermanCain.com

Be sure to “like” Robert Laurie over on Facebook and follow him on Twitter. You’ll be glad you did.