Kathleen Sebelius’ resignation means little to Obamacare at this moment. She’s earned her salary, will resign with benefits intact, never quite divulging or acknowledging what her role was in the Obamacare debacle a tepid symbol that some action was taken by an Administration that imposed this legislation on the American people through the neglect of legislators, the ignorance of citizens, the omission by media and the purposeful lies of the President and his fans. Most will probably be “not impressed” with this action.
Obamacare blunders on and we’re stuck with it in terms of real risks both financial and physical. Republicans have reverted to their whisperings about repeal, Democrats have resorted to sarcasm and denial praising the law and all those making money or a name for themselves are hoping that the American people will STOP paying attention to the law…Even the Republicans whose minimal efforts at pacifying America include repeal and replace with something that’s likely to be worse playing around with the features Americans like such as lifetime limits and coverage of preexisting conditions.
There’s one problem for those who have tagged their fortunes to this law and that is that this may not be a law we can get used to. With medical costs soaring and the pinching of consumers the main means by which the law funds itself from taxes to shifting money away from other programs, to charging essentially membership fees to health insurance companies and employers who will pass those costs onto consumers, we’ve only just begun to witness the financial burden imposed on us by the single-focused misassumption that the healthcare crisis could be addressed by reducing the number of people without any health insurance.
For me, the President’s legacy is one of deception, of gaming the system, of a transparent contempt for the people who put him in office through the use of picking and choosing from among facts, to outright misstatements, to timing the impact of the more draconian provisions of Obamacare to avoid political consequences, to the belligerent denials of reality, to the contempt with which he meets criticism. Ms. Sebelius’ resignation does little to impact that legacy either way and certainly does nothing to lessen the citizen imperative that we not become bored or used to Obamacare before we can address what it has and will continue to do to our wallets and our healthcare.
