The Coming Collapse of Obamacare

There's a very good article about the topic at The American Spectator.

The only difference between Middle-Class Obama supporters and me is that they don't know what's about to hit their families at the end of this year.  How many ordinary folks will look at their new Health Insurance bill in January and adopt the attitude of the Democrats who wrote this terrible travesty?

"It's going to be hard to scrape up another 10 or 15 thousand dollars to pay for my health insurance, but you know, we're all in this together!"

I don't think so.

Even if they're covered on their employer's plan, watch out.  I've heard from many companies that they're going to do one of the following come January:

Increase their employee Health Insurance deduction by 50 to 100 percent,
Change their plan to feature a much higher deductible and co-pay, or
Eliminate their health plans altogether and elect to pay the fine.

I think everybody's going to be hopping mad.  The gigantic insurance bills are going to come with new mandates from the government - "You better buy this or we're going to take the money from you anyway".  Shortly followed by the realization that they can't get in to see their doctor.  All of a sudden he's backlogged 6 months.  That's if he didn't decide to retire, leaving folks searching for a new family doctor only to discover that nobody's taking new patients.

The only hope we have left is that next year's elections result in a filibuster-proof Republican majority in the Senate and complete control of the House.  They'll try to repeal Obamacare, but the president will veto any and all such attempts.  They'll try to defund it, but we'll find ourselves back in another fiscal crisis as the president refuses to sign any budget or spending bill that does not fully fund his monstrosity.

But I don't hold a lot of hope that Americans are smart enough to send new people to Washington determined to help fix this mess.  More likely they'll re-elect the same old well-funded rulers who will make sure Obamacare remains the law of the land.

Whatever happens next year, I foresee all of us getting poorer and sicker.  As much as I'd like to offer hope that we can replace Obama with a responsible president in 16, I have mostly lost faith that ordinary Americans can elect the people who will fix the problem.  They'll probably vote for Hillary, whose "solution" to Obamacare will be National Health Insurance.

Good Luck everybody.  We're going to need it.