I was catching up on health care blogs last night and noticed a theme on
the Left: they have changed their arguments and justifications for
ObamaCare and RomneyCare in the past few months.
Jonathan Gruber now claims the point of RomneyCare was not to reduce cost, even though cost
reduction was a big selling point for it and its ObamaCare progeny.
Ezra Klein praises the Cadillac Tax?on high-value insurance plans for “falling particularly heavily on union plans and?striking a serious (and, over time, larger and larger) blow against the employer-based health-care system.”?As
with Gruber’s statement, this is true but President Obama sold his plan as protecting employer-sponsored insurance against those of us who think individuals should control their health insurance like they do their car insurance, life insurance, and homeowners insurance.
[Digression now its own post]
And it seems everyone on the Left has dropped the “Patient Protection” part of the bill title and call it simply the
Affordable Care Act (ACA), again making it clear that their goal is to
provide subsidies, ration care through government, take away patient
choices, and not worry about patients: read you and me.
The good news is there is a new diagram?to help you understand how ObamaCare will make your life simpler.
