No, I don't have any sympathy for you. This is the world you voted for. Conservatives warned you, even before this destructive, job killing, extreme debt inducing 0bamacare law was passed. It spawned the Tea Party movement. Instead of listening and doing your own research, when your "betters" started chanting "racist, sexist, homophobes", you closed your eyes and ears and started chanting it too. You bought what 0bama and Pelosi and the rest of them, especially the leftist media, told you. Well, except for FOX.
FOX had story after story about the consequences of 0bamacare. They had people both for and against 0bamacare (they still do) but because they were injecting a dose of reality you didn't want to hear, they're biased liars so you never bothered to watch. It's the equivalent of a 4 year old sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting LA, LA, LA. But I guess it's appropriate since that pretty much describes your maturity level. Now, everything they and their guests were saying has come true, and then some. You're incapable of looking far enough ahead to see outcomes, even when they're staring you right in the face. You ignored the exemptions those that voted for the law took for themselves. With stars in your eyes and drool running down your chin, you ignored the fact that those Hollywood cheerleaders have enough money they wouldn't have to subject themselves to 0bamacare. They spewed the empty, pretty words you wanted to hear. Nothing else mattered.
Businesses small and large tried warn you of the consequences.They were saying terrible things you didn't want to hear. So, you were told they're evil rich wanted to to take your health care and your money too. Insurance companies tried to warn you. They, too, were evil profit mongers and 0bamacare would put them in their place. You made excuses when 0bama gave extensions to unions, corporations and others. He cynically did so to win reelection. Still living in your fantasy world, you never bothered to think what would happen when those extensions ended.
Even when people first started getting cancellation letters, you still blamed the insurance companies. When companies started switching people to part time because they couldn't afford to pay their employees insurance anymore, you blamed them, too. Now you're being slapped around by your own ignorance and the boy king you hoped would be president forever. And those subsidies? Even single mothers in college don't qualify because they make too much. They aren't available for the working poor, just those who buy the silver and gold plans. Deductibles are so high, it's as if we have no health care. And THAT affects everyone, even your precious unions.
Just because you CAN work part time and still see a doctor doesn't mean we want or can afford to. For the majority of us (even you), we don't need to go to the doctor every month. You've exchanged a better quality of life for "free" birth control pills, abortions and paying extra for children's dental care. Doesn't matter if you want or need these things, you're getting them. Thus, the policies offered don't even fit your needs. Like most socialist ideas, you get a once size fits all program. Young healthy people are supposed to pay for the sick and the elderly. Not only are they facing sticker shock and not signing up, those adults can stay on their parents policy until they're 26. They won't be paying into the system for a long time. Medicaid and 0bamacare won't pay for utilities, rent or mortgage, food, clothing, etc. So, more and more people will be forced to work two part time jobs to pay for their daily needs. Many will need to work more than forty hours because of the huge costs they're now paying for health insurance.
Even now, after the lie of the year (pronounced by a liberal fact checking organization) that you can keep your doctor you still live in hope instead of facing reality. We're watching it fail spectacularly and, as you did when the law was passed, you're buying into the hoax that it will be the best thing ever. Instead of listening to Republican ideas, you blindly follow the regime who keep insisting we don't have a plan because our ideas don't include the government taking over 1/6 of the economy. We've suggested passing legislation that allows insurance companies to sell over state lines. That would promote competition and lower premiums. We want people to choose their own plan that fits their particular needs and budget. Without government's inflationary price setting, the costs for everything from hospital stays, to doctors visits and prescriptions would go down. Some people don't want insurance. That's their choice and they shouldn't be forced to buy it. More money would be available to provide insurance for the elderly and truly disabled.
I bet it's never occured to you what will happen when the insurance companies collapse. The system is designed so that happens. Even if the government heavily subsidizes them until even the working poor can't afford the tax increases, they will still collapse some day. What will happen to the millions of file clerks, secretaries, underwriters, claims adjusters, etc.? What will happen to individual insurance agents? Each one of them is a small business. Many have secretaries, receptionists, maybe a file clerk and appointment setters (these are in addition to the corporate headquarters that employ thousands of Americans. The country will collapse under the weight of YOUR party's failure. Cloward and Pliven will NOT help you. You will suffer more than anyone else because those of us who are able to look into possible futures are able to plan for it. Your party believes people will be begging for the government to fix it. But most Americans still have common sense and that uniquely American spirit and it's not likely they'll trust the people who got us into this mess. So, no, I don't feel sorry for you. Your blind ignorance, you're desperation to be like every other country when ours is to big to sustain such a monstrosity will be your downfall. I hope you guys fall down into such a deep fit of despair and failure that you won't ever be able to crawl out. There won't be any government to help you, it will have nothing to give. It won't have the resources to give you handouts.
Cindie
