I have decided to share a little WIKI post I just did for my Political Science class. I hope you can forgive my somewhat impish use of irony. 

Obamacare and an unwelcome lovechild

Of all the interest groups involved with the Obamacare disaster, none deserves more scrutiny that the health insurance industry itself. I find it particularly ironic that Obama’s illicit relationship whith this group has yielded a lovechild that I must (in spite of my staunch pro-life stance) say should probably have been aborted. It is a hidden, but key provision of the law that provides the insurance companies with a guaranteed bailout (of unspecified or blank check proportions) if the cost they incur in providing the policies the law requires eats into their profit margins too much. I don’t think Obama’s left wing allies will be too happy when they meet the progeny of their heroic leader and the health insurance lobby. I have included a link to a Yahoo.com article by Eric Pianin that provides a brief introduction to this little problem that thousands of pages of legislation could not hide for long. Please read it and try to find a reason why Obama would risk the wrath of the left to get cozy with the Health Insurance lobby.

Pianin, Eric. “Insurers Could Get Multi-Millions in Obamacare Bailout” The Fiscal Times

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/insurers-could-multi-millions-obamacare-111500000.html

p.s. Pianin is probably slightly underestimating the cost of this little mistake.

Today I watched the Democrats finally wake up and realize that they have been following their brave leader on a suicide mission. Unfortunately, they woke up late. They would have been  much better off if they had only took hold of the lifeline that the Republicans threw them during the government shutdown. Now they can only blame themselves for missing the opportunity to put this mess of until after the 2014 elections. While I am tempted to enjoy watching them scamper about in horror and lash out at their fearless leader, I am even more horrified than they are at the mess they have made in our healthcare system. This would never have happened if Obama had told the American People, and Congress, the whole truth about the "Affordable Care Act" back when he was trying to get it passed. This is what you get when you blindly follow a group of leaders who are convinced that they know what is best for everybody else. If by some miracle, the Obama administration can turn this one around, I'll certainly be willing to eat crow. But I honestly believe that there is no way out of the trap that Obama has led his party into. This is one for the History books.

Dear Mr. Obama: Promises or Gilded Chains?

Mr. Obama,

I have spent most of my life living well below the poverty level, and I have always been frustrated with the level of government dependency that poverty often entails. You offered a promise to Americans that was clearly intended to make them believe they would be able to keep their personal independence under your new health care law. You promised that they could keep their health care plans and their doctors "Period." But you lied, and now you offer us a hollow apology for that lie and you promise to vastly expand government dependency to a much larger segment of the middle class--in the form of subsidies. It has been one of my long cherished goals to free myself from dependency on the liberal "safety net" and now you expect me to thank you for moving that goal further beyond my reach! I am tired of being trapped in your liberal ideal. The soft slavery of government dependency is not liberty! I would be more than happy to assume the risks of liberty, but your obvious determination to expand government dependency until it secures your political allies a permanent hold on our nation is more than I can stand. This poor American is ready for liberty and personal independence! Mr. Obama, stop strangling opportunity with the chords of federal regulation. Stop placing the chains of dependency on more and more Americans. I have one message for you and your Progressive friends. "Let my people go!"

Jonathan Andrew Reed Sr.