How many licks does it take for a liberal to call a failed government program a failure? The answer is never! These central planners are incapable of introspection. They see things as they want to see it and the hell with everyone else. This so-called Affordable Care Act is a centerpiece of Progressive willfulness.
States are witnessing a mass exodus of insurance companies
that will no longer participate in this Obamacare fiasco. North Carolina is no different. As of now only Blue Cross and Blue Shield
service all 100 counties. Cigna is an
option in five counties in the Raleigh area.
That’s it! This year we received
a 32% rate increase with an additional 24.3% scheduled for next year. Genius!
All hail the master planners!
You would think that progressives would take stock
in this massive failure and rethink this top-down, un-American policy. But that would take a giant leap of faith
that these people know what it means to be an American. We have to remind ourselves that these people
are central planners. There are no limitations to their machinations
and we have no say.
The News and Observer’s editorial board sees success
where there is failure. They believe the
ACA just needs some tweaking and a little force by big brother:
BCBS also has the
problem of the other companies’ withdrawal to deal with. The customers of those
companies, some 260,000 of them, will now have to come to Blue Cross, and a
good many of those customers may have significant and costly medical issues to
deal with. That’s no small challenge for BCBS or any other insurance company.
This is one aspect of
the ACA — which required most people to get insurance or pay a penalty — that
is an ongoing problem. Without younger, healthier customers enrolled, customers
who don’t need to make claims, insurance companies are crunched by increasing
claims from older, sicker customers. Not enough of those younger people are
signing up.
And unfortunately, given
the partisan divide in Congress, it’s virtually impossible to “tweak” the ACA —
to prevent companies from pulling out of a market, to strengthen the
requirements for everyone to have health insurance, to bolster subsidies —
because Republicans in Congress just want to kill the program outright.
Have you noticed federal government programs are dependent upon force? Does that sound American to you? It doesn’t to me.
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