Monday, April 2, 2012

Problem with Obama care is . . . it hasn't done a damn thing for anyone

I don't know what it did for me. I pay close to $1000.00 per month for my family to have health insurance that covers big and small things - but hits us with high co pays and leaves us out to dry if we have a medical problem with our teeth. That's pretty much what I was paying and receiving before "Obamacare".

My parents get their insurance through my Dad's employer, and they suffer from a high up front deductible that deters routine preventative care - until the burn through more than $1,000 in out of pocket bills, their insurance covers nothing and they still have high co-pays after. The primary reason they work at this point is for that crummy insurance, and any hope they had of retiring was dashed in the second or third round of Obama's compromises to the ass hole Senators in his own party.

So what has Obamacare done for me? Nothing. Along with all the substantive compromises, Obama let the effective date of most of his reforms be set so far into the future that its hard for nearly anyone to quantify their real world impact.
that's why I highly doubt you'll see its defeat by the Supreme court as any sort of rallying point beyond lip service by the faithful. Obama passed a law that didn't have any real impact on most people's lives for years - years in which his detractors could make the case that the program is socialist slavery to those inclined to listen to that sort of thing.

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