One by one, the wonders that Obamacare was going to deliver dissolve:
Remember how folks who were happy with their current health-insurance coverage wouldn’t have to do a thing, for nothing would change for them? We can all see how that’s working out as company after company drops its insurance coverage and its workers into the federal exchanges.
Remember how Obamacare was going to cover everybody, or almost everybody? (Universal coverage, it was called.) But with every exemption, waiver, and delay the administration hands out, that goal grows farther and farther away-and the train wreck has barely started.
Remember how Obamacare will reduce insurance premiums? In case after case, it’s increasing them.
And there’s more of the same doubtless to come. Maybe it’s just our imagination, but is an edge of panic creeping into the administration’s efforts to enlist more and more of the young and healthy into its “signature” program? Because if it doesn’t, more and more of the old and sick will sink it.
No wonder people have to be fined or taxed to corral them into Obamacare. Its formal name alone-Affordable Care Act-scarcely meets the truth-in-advertising requirements for a new product.
Editorial, Pages 88 on 09/29/2013