Alright, now here's the kicker...and you know it's bad when even a turncoat like Rubio can see it coming. The so-called single-payer solution is to dump everyone on Medicare!WashingtonTimes: President Obama promised that we could keep our health care plans and our doctors, but he knew that was a lie. He pretended Obamacare was the endgame. That was also false.
Mr. Obama’s objective has always been to entrench the doomed law into our lives so that it would lead to a government takeover of the whole health care system. This maniacal plan is working.
In advance of the March 31 deadline for individuals to enroll, the White House touted this week that 5 million people had signed up for Obamacare.
That sounds somewhat impressive until Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, was unable to answer reporters’ questions about how many of those people had actually paid premiums.
We also don’t know which of these enrollees are among the millions who were insured last year but were dropped from their plans that didn’t measure up the new mandates. Nor do we know how many of those who signed up are the young, healthy people needed to keep the system afloat.
Most in the know understand that because Democrats, even with across-the-board majorities, were unable to foist a single-payer health care system onto Americans, they settled instead for Obamacare as a stepping stone towards those ends. However, now as clarity begins to reveal that projection, so too shines the strategy to get there:Anyway, Mr. Obama and his cohort in Congress are secretly dancing a jig because the convoluted program was intended to fail. They believe that Uncle Sam makes better health care decisions than Dr. Smith.
“From the very beginning, they wanted a single-payer system of health care,” Sen. Marco Rubio told me on the “Shooting Straight with Emily Miller” radio show. “They obviously didn’t think they could get that far, so they went with Obamacare.”
The Florida Republican said the current trajectory will lead to insurance companies in the exchanges making up their losses from this year with much higher premiums next year, which is when the left will pounce.
“What they want to do is go to the public and say, ‘Look, these exchanges prove these insurance companies are greedy. Thats why it’s unaffordable. That’s why we need the government to be the single health insurance company for the whole country. Let’s put everyone on Medicare,’” Mr. Rubio explained about Mr. Obama’s strategy.
- Hike the rates.
- Blame the 'greedy' insurance companies.
- Claim the government needs to be the sole carrier of health insurance in America, vis-à-vis everyone on Medicare.
So these geniuses, these masterminds, with Obama at the helm, will have effectively transitioned America from a private health care system that, despite the complaints, worked, to a broken public system (both in itself & what it's doing to the private market), and then ultimately to a Medicare system that's been hemorrhaging and busted for decades. And that's just the practicalities of the process without even mentioning the infringements on our liberties and the utter unconstitutionality of it all.Politico: REP. WORRIED ABOUT MEDICARE APPEALS BACKLOG — Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) is sounding the alarm this morning about a massive backlog within the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals. The 357,000-appeal clog delays providers from having their cases heard for longer than two years, McDermott noted in a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “ “The agencies must review their administrative procedures and act now to protect seniors who are struggling to get Medicare payment appeals addressed,” he wrote. He argued that problems with recovery auditors have been identified as the leading cause of the backlog. http://1.usa.gov/1nCaTGC
Related links: Get ready for #obamacare premium increases. Or possibly ‘brace for impact.’
It’s come to this: Lefty groups now offering young people cash prizes to enroll in Obamacare
Another big week for Obamacare in the courts
Obamacare: Destruction By Design
Bankrupting America
