Every disaster has its moment of clarity. Physicist Richard Feynman
dunks an O-ring into ice water and everyone understands instantly why
the shuttle Challenger exploded. This week, the Obamacare O-ring froze
for all the world to see: Hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters
went out to people who had been assured a dozen times by the president
that “If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your
health-care plan. Period.”
The cancellations lay bare three pillars of Obamacare: (a) mendacity, (b) paternalism and (c) subterfuge.
(a) Those letters are irrefutable evidence that President Obama’s
repeated you-keep-your-coverage claim was false. Why were they sent out?
Because Obamacare renders illegal (with exceedingly narrow
“grandfathered” exceptions) the continuation of any insurance plan
deemed by Washington regulators not to meet their arbitrary standards
for adequacy. Example: No maternity care? You are terminated.
So a
law designed to cover the uninsured is now throwing far more people off
their insurance than it can possibly be signing up on the nonfunctioning insurance exchanges. Indeed, most of the 19 million people
with individual insurance will have to find new and likely more
expensive coverage. And that doesn’t even include the additional
millions who are sure to lose their employer-provided coverage. That’s a
lot of people. That’s a pretty big lie.
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Friday, November 1, 2013
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