It’s not the first time we’ve seen the hubris of close-minded Democrats get a dose of humbling when they came up against the real Obamacare. After all, we saw it with Harry Reid when he found a way for his committee and leadership staffers to keep their federal benefits rather than be forced to climb down in the pit with the rest of the Obamacare shoppers (search Harry Reid, Obamacare loophole, December 2013 or some other such phrasing).
And now Harvard professors are distressed. (Search Harvard professors and Obamacare January, 2015 or some other such phrasing).
None of us should relish someone else’s misery but…It’s been devastating to millions of us to experience the deception that became known as Obamacare yet continue to read and listen to fetishists unable to disconnect from ideological fantasy and face the reality that our healthcare system by any other name including Obamacare is still our healthcare system.
Our healthcare system has the same problems it always did with obtaining health CARE notably that the cost of care is too expensive, health insurance is too expensive and covers less and less every year in terms of needed medical services when you’re sick, and the very real risk of financial and physical destruction in the event we become sick.
Further there are some new risks posed to individuals because of Obamacare especially because of its tepid attempts at insurance standardization in terms of preventive care inclusions that have merely served as an excuse for the continued rise in premiums, increases to required co-insurance and co-payment outlays and rising deductibles.
So, we welcome the Harvard professors and their entry into the real world, no matter if the university buckles and gives them a reprieve or if they’re saddled in our world for a few years until they can devise a way out of it.
We hope they consider the real Obamacare and how for all its pages it simply is a design to cost shift and save money for payers of health claims, whether those payers are health insurance companies or governments and no longer find lazy refuge in the recitation of the throwaway provisions like premium tax credits designed to grow participation by distracting from or putting off the realization that fewer people can afford health CARE regardless of how many purchase the tool of health insurance.
In short, Harvard professors, welcome to the real Obamacare.
