Has ObamaCare Helped?

- March 27, 2014

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ObamaCare: How Has It Helped?
As Megan McArdle points out, the administration is incapable of answering a key question: How many uninsured people have gained insurance as a result of ObamaCare? Nobody knows. I don't think that administration wants to know, because it knows the answer will look bad for them. But it's a problem when we are unable to track how many people have truly signed up for coverage. It's also a problem when the administration arbitrarily changes deadlines, like it did this week. Insurers are furious with the latest ObamaCare delay because it prevents them from being able to accurately calculate premium costs for next year, which must be done this spring. That's what is so amazing about this administration is their apparent lack of understanding of how their decisions impact businesses, employers and individuals. Companies, families, business owners all have to plan things. They have to budget, calculate, estimate, and project in order to exist within the bounds of reasonable expectations. But apparently that is not the case in government.

ObamaCare Tips The Scales
ObamaCare is officially the greatest domestic policy disaster this country has probably ever witnessed. Its failures go far beyond a website. This is an epic fail that will be studied in history books for years to come. ObamaCare is impacting our economy, our wallets, our healthcare, the integrity of our Constitution, and much more. All of these unilateral delays aren't just a sign of incompetence but they are unconstitutional. Obama is doing it to try and save ObamaCare, not just because it is his chief legislative achievement, but because this law is the Holy Grail of liberalism. This is what the left has been fighting to achieve for the better half of the last century, and now it is crumbling before our very eyes. As pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, “One by one, the myths of the Affordable Care Act have been revealed. When the curtain on open enrollment falls on March 31, the last remaining big myth of ObamaCare will be fully exposed: The individual mandate has failed.” This is because millions of uninsured Americans will remain without coverage, and that will still be the case after the delayed enrollment period ends. Wasn't that the whole point of ObamaCare?

"A Fair Shot for Everyone"
I just want you to be aware of the Democrats' latest campaign that will likely carry them into the midterm election. Yesterday they rolled out their agenda: "A Fair Shot for Everyone." This is a rehash of populist ideas they've been pushing for ages. Ideas include increasing the minimum wage, investments (aka. spending) in infrastructure, etc. They want to focus "like a laser" on middle-class concerns. What they don't want to focus on is ObamaCare. Chuck Schumer says that 85 percent of Americans are not effected by ObamaCare. Is this guy living in the same country we are living in? ObamaCare affects everyone in some way, starting with the fact that you have to prove your status of insurance coverage to the IRS. It impacts people who are covered because it has messed with premium rates and it has changed existing coverage for millions of Americans who had plans but weren't allowed to keep them. Millions of Americans are now subsidizing others thanks to ObamaCare subsidies. Businesses have had to fire workers or cut hours because of ObamaCare. Democrats can continue to tell themselves that no one cares about ObamaCare because it doesn't directly impact them, but they are misguided.

Today's "Hot Topic" From the Hannity Forums
Should the EMTALA Be Repealed? - Posted by DDye
Since this law requires hospitals to treat everyone, it forces taxpayers to pay for other peoples' medical treatments (from higher costs derived from the "free" treatment hospitals are forced to provide), probably the most popular conservatives argument against ObamaCare. If you are opposed to ObamaCare because it forces you to pay for other people, so does the EMTALA. And that care is much more expensive, and is a big reason why an Advil costs $20 in a hospital. Are you in favor of repealing EMTALA? If so, how would you deal with poor and working poor people with medical emergencies on the federal level? Or would you keep it at the state level, where poorer states wouldn't have to guarantee treatment? And if you oppose repealing EMTALA but still oppose ObamaCare, how do you justify opposition to ObamaCare under the argument that it forces you to pay for the medical treatment of others?

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