Very interesting news today. Apparently the federal government has decided that the medical insurance exchanges for small business (or something) for Obamacare won't be ready on time, so they've delayed implementation of Obamacare for another year. Pushing it back to 2015 -- after the next mid-term elections. And I hardly think that's a coincidence.
I wrote "the insurance exchanges for small business (or something)" might not be ready because I'm not exactly sure if that's what's holding everything up. It may be that the feds don't quite understand what's holding everything up. Businesses can't get any straight answers from the feds about what they're supposed to do, and there are still at least a dozen states that have refused to set up the insurance exchanges. They're free to refuse, in which case, the feds say they will do it.
Additionally, the US Senate -- at least -- has voted to repeal the tax on medical devices that is part of the bill. No less a jughead than Senator Al Franken, clown prince... or rather senator from Minnesota, actually stood up in the Senate and recited a litany of reasons that the tax would pretty much destroy any innovation in medical devices (evertything from rubber gloves to prosthetic limbs), and how the tax penalizes the successful firms in the industry.
I -- and thousands of other people in the USA, the reasonably intelligent among us -- could have told Franken that, and probably did, before he voted for the damn bill. So perhaps spending a few years in the US Senate and actually confronting the issues head-on has ground away some of his sharper socialist edges. Who knows. Quite possibly he's simply not as blankly ignorant as he was four years ago, but I'm sure he makes up for his revelaton about medical taxes with stubborn blockheadedness in other areas.
Also, I think it was Senator Mitch McConnell who issued a photo of a stack of standard typing paper about 10 feet tall -- maybe even taller -- the 20,000+ regulations that Obamacare has spawned so far.
Have to laugh,. It's just impossible. No one will be able to track or monitor any of this.
Many of the regulations that have been publicly discussed -- and not many have been -- seem to contradict oithers.
Doctors don't know what to do, and a recent survey done by Pew Research, if I recall correctly, noted that 60% of doctors now in practice plan to retire or otherwise leave their practices over the next three years. Not enough medical students are coming up to replace them.
Insurance premiums have been steadily rising. At least one government agency reports that insurance premiums will increase anywhere from 20% to 100% when Obamacare is implemented. Insurance couild run $20,000.00 per year for a family of four.
A big issue is that with Obamacare requiring that small businesses with more than 50 full-time employees will be compelled to buy the cadillace Obamacar health care packages or pay a penalty. No one's hiring because of that, and many companies are contemplating reducing workers' hours to less than 30 per week. And most would prefer to pay the penalty for NOT providing insurance than to pay for the insurance. They're not being mean or stingy, just trying to survive.
And because of the above, the latest estimates indicate that about 70 million people who are now insured will lose their insurance when Obamacare goes into effect.
And wasn't Obamacare supposed to solve the problem of soemthing like 30 million uninsured?
Hate to dance a jig while singing, "Ha ha, told you so!" But, you know, "Ha ha! Told you so."
Considerable hopes that this killer legislation will see repeal or piecemeal demise before it ever goes into effect. It's a crock of shit, pie-in-the-sky nightmare scheme and it's not surprising that it's not even remotely workable.
Ha Ha! Told you so!
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