HotAir: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s amendment repealing Obamacare failed to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate on Friday, receiving 45 ayes and 54 nays. The amendment was attached to the Senate Democratic budget resolution for 2014…You can check out the votes here...every name, right down party lines.
“Tomorrow is the three-year anniversary of the passage of Obamacare,” Cruz said on the floor before the vote. “Obamacare is hurting young people. It’s hurting seniors. It’s hurting Hispanics. It’s hurting African-Americans. It’s hurting single moms. It’s hurting the economy. It should be repealed.”
Now, three years later, we find that Obamacare is even less popular than when it was passed...
And as IBD suggests the eventualities, "Democrats may find themselves scrambling to toss ObamaCare overboard, before voters do the same to them."WeeklyStandard: In 2010, the Democrats rammed Obamacare through Congress in open defiance of public opinion, and an incensed citizenry responded by giving Republicans their biggest gains in the House of Representatives since before World War II. Now, coinciding with tomorrow’s 3-year anniversary of President Obama’s signing Obamacare into law, new polling suggests that his namesake is now even less popular than it was at the time of its passage.
According to the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll for March, only 18 percent of Republicans, 31 percent of independents, and 58 percent of members of Obama’s own party, have a favorable opinion of Obamacare. Overall, Kaiser’s polling indicates that only 37 percent of Americans like Obamacare — down 9 points from Kaiser’s tally in the month immediately following Obamacare’s passage.
By about 2-to-1 margins, Kaiser’s respondents now say that, under Obamacare, they expect the cost of American health care to rise (55 percent), rather than fall (21 percent), and the quality of American health care to fall (45 percent) rather than rise (24 percent). By more than 3-to-1 margins (57 to 16 percent on costs, 55 to 18 percent on quality), independents share these same low expectations for life under Obamacare.
The reality is ObamaCare will probably never be more popular than it is today, since its harmful side effects are still just theoretical. But if ObamaCare does produce skyrocketing premiums, insurance exchange fiascoes, lost workplace health coverage and lost jobs, the little public support it gets now will collapse.As officials scramble in attempts to avoid it's implementation from being a 'third-world experience', Mark Levin took the time Friday to explain just how Obamacare was a coup and it how it was designed to change the relationship between the government and the citizen. Mark says even the drones are about to get a rude awakening when they experience 203% premium increases!
And that's just for starters. Aside from health insurers warning of massive premium increases, there are many other concerns: employees being forced to reveal personal health info or pay up, the effects on small businesses' ability to hire more employees, more doctors are planning to retire early, the list goes on... And the real brunt of this legislation isn't fully implemented until 2014 (conveniently planned for Obama's reelection, of course). Too bad the average low information voter doesn't understand how this massive leviathan is weighing on our society, which begs the question: by 2014, who will the clueless blame when Obamacare kicks in?
Probably still not Obama, as so many still don't have a handle on the man himself being tied to the policies he's implemented. But perhaps if more realized that not a single bit of this monstrosity (which carries his name, btw) applies to him, his family, members of Congress, nor other members of the administration. Another convenience, no? Here's a reminder from three years ago...
But let's conclude this by talking about the realities of the situation.WashingtonTimes: President Obama declared that the new health care law “is going to be affecting every American family.” Except his own, of course.
The new health care law exempts the president from having to participate in it. Leadership and committee staffers in the House and Senate who wrote the bill are exempted as well. A weasel-worded definition of “staff” includes only the members’ personal staff in the new system; the committee staff that drafted the legislation opted themselves out. Because they were more familiar with the contents of the law than anyone in the country, it says a lot that they carved out their own special loophole. Anyway, the law is intended to affect “ordinary Americans,” according to Vice President Joe Biden (who - being a heartbeat away from the presidency - also is not covered), not Washington insiders.
When the private insurance market is decimated by this government seizure, and the so-called Affordable Care Act becomes unmanageable, then what will the government turn to? As they've said from the very beginning, they want a single-payer system...by any means necessary.
So what that the federal government trashes one-sixth of the economy to get there; it's always been more about seizing the ability to control 100% of our lives anyway. All about control, and little to do with our health, much less the cost of care, which is where the conversation actually started between the people and their Congress well before Obamacare was ever passed three years ago.
ADDENDUM: Senator Ted Cruz submits damning evidence of Obamacare's failure in his latest op-ed!
