Monday, March 24, 2014

Obamacare's epitaph: "You 'F'ed' up, you trusted us"

I think it is fair to say that had the administration and Democrat Congressional leadership been honest about what the Affordable Care Act meant that it would not have passed.  For example, if they had been honest about the costs and how new taxes would not come close to defraying them, blowing yet again another hole in the budget.  Or had they admitted that they were going to force a hundred million Americans to change their health insurance.  Or that the young were going to pay for their more affluent parent's insurance.  Or that there would be no 'conscience' provisions protecting people from paying for procedures that they deemed immoral (contraception, abortion).

Ex Dem Congressman Bart Stupak probably has more reason to despise the lying liars in his party than anyone else, after all they lied to him straight to his face knowing that he would repeat their lies to his constituents and that it would most likely cost him his seat - here's Mr. Stupak's thoughts from the WSJ.

The margin of victory in the House was delivered by then-Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan as leader of a group of antiabortion Democrats. In a USA Today op-ed two weeks ago, Stupak accuses the administration of betrayal:

During the final debate on the Affordable Care Act, I engaged in a colloquy with Chairman Henry Waxman reaffirming that Americans would not be required to pay for abortions or violate their conscience by participating in or promoting a procedure they find morally objectionable. In response, we received an ironclad commitment that our conscience would remain free and our principles would be honored. With our negotiations completed and our legislative intent established by the colloquy, we agreed to an executive order directing federal agencies to respect America's longstanding prohibitions on government funding of abortion and most relevant here, to respect longstanding protections for individuals and organizations conscientiously opposed to participating in or facilitating abortions.


I was deeply concerned and objected to the HHS mandate that required all health plans to cover all FDA-approved contraceptives, including four drugs and devices that could terminate human life at its earliest stages by preventing an embryo's implantation in the womb.


Or as Bluto Blutarsky that Blotto Philosopher would have put it:  "You fucked up, you trusted us".

Let that be the epitaph for O'care.  Now if we could just kill the thing so we can get it buried....

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