By Austin Bay • 11/03/16

Democrats, anticipating rage over huge premium increases scheduled for 2017, are already trying to blame Republicans

Lies passed ObamaCare legislation, lies supported its implementation. As its death spiral begins, angry and panicked lies by Democratic apologists attempt to deflect accountability for its economic devastation.

ObamaCare’s economic wreckage will insure President Barack Obama’s now classic promises regarding ObamaCare will eventually scar his legacy. History is written usually by the victors. In the case of ObamaCare, the economic losers are so numerous their bitter complaints will write the titles, fill the chapters and pack the footnotes.

Here are two examples of his great falsehoods:
“If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.” President Obama, June 15, 2009

He repeated the “keep your doctor lie” the next day, in a speech to the American Medical Association.

“No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period.” President Barack Obama, June 16, 2009

The last link leads to the White House website.

Obama has managed to escape accountability for a deception that has damaged many middle class families. When he skated through the 2012 presidential campaign America had yet to feel the full extent of ObamaCare’s policy disaster. Presidential debate moderators didn’t press him on the point. Obama could sell himself as hope.

It’s November 2016. The empirical evidence is in. His “Keep you doctor” and “keep your policy” statements were blatant falsehoods.

Nancy Pelosi has evaded accountability for her infamous ObamaCare comment: “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.”

Pass it to find out. How blithe and casual, but then she is a liberal Democrat who expects Ultimate Media Privilege.

I say it is reprehensible to gamble with legislation that would affect medical care, medical research and medical manufacturing in the U.S. Amalgamated, medicine amounts to roughly 16 percent of the U.S. economy.

The “fog of controversy” Pelosi disdained included political posturing—her posturing, for example. But in a healthy democracy controversy also includes rational discussion and reasoned analysis. In 2009 the Democrats had the White House. They also had the votes in Pelosi’s House and 60 votes in the Senate. They had what amounted to a “lock” on federal political power in the U.S. A lock is one thing, but in Barack Obama America also had a president who despised his Republican opposition. His personal contempt and disdain for Republicans was palpable. He brooked no discussion and refused to engage in any semblance of give and take politics. Reasoned analysis was something MIT’s Jonathan Gruber provided—not Paul Ryan.

Barack Obama’s words and deeds indicated he believed reasoned analysis in American governance was the province of Democrats. Republicans? Fill in the usual community organizer rhetoric: evil, stupid, heartless, starve the poor, feed’em ketchup, etc.

One of the most pernicious lies spread by ObamaCare supporters in government—and the press—was that Republicans offered no ideas.

So Democrats rammed ObamaCare’s health insurance monstrosity down America’s collective throat. Not one single Republican legislator voted for the monstrosity.

Democrats, anticipating raging public ire over the huge ObamaCare premium increases scheduled for 2017, are already trying to blame Republicans for the hapless program. Yes, lies attempt to shift blame as ObamaCare expires.

But here’s the truth. Obama lied. ObamaCare’s about to die.

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To summarize the Bloomberg analysis, ObamaCare gives Americans fewer medical insurance choices, not more. The remaining choices are more expensive. As a result, a large number of people are losing or will lose access to health care that was available prior to the ACA’s implementation.

“In North Carolina, for example, a BlueCross BlueShield insurer will be the only option in 95 of the state’s 100 counties after Aetna and UnitedHealth said this year that they would leave. That will leave 284,000 people looking for a new plan, according to the state….In Tennessee, UnitedHealth and the state’s BlueCross BlueShield plan are pulling back, and about 117,000 people will lose the plans…”

Bottom line: ObamaCare’s collapse not longer looms. It has arrived.

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Ah, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. In a diatribe he delivered September 16, 2001—in the wake of 9/11—Wright thundered “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”

It was an ugly, crude, anti-American insult.

Now ObamaCare’s chickens have come home to roost. ObamaCare is an economic and political disaster imposed by Barack Obama and his Democratic Party. Wright’s insult consisted of stupid words that can be mocked and ignored. Not so the roosting disaster of ObamaCare. It will take a decade and billions of dollars to repair.

http://observer.com/2016/11/obamacares-c...-home-to-roost/

Obama: These Damned Obamacare Critics Were Wrong About Everything, and Offer No Alternative

Guy Benson | Nov 03, 2016

Our outgoing president was on the campaign trail in Florida today, where he served up some high-octane flaming garbage about Obamacare. He didn't merely voice disagreements with Republicans -- or mount a nuanced, if self-serving, defense of his law. He flat-out lied. Repeatedly and unconvincingly.

n fact, the GOP has proposed a very detailed Obamacare replacement plan, spearheaded by the highest-ranking elected Republican in the country. It entails a robust tax credit program, safeguards against coverage denial for continuously-insured consumers, Medicaid block grants, health savings account expansion, and incentives for state-level solutions. Obama may not like the plan, but that doesn't change the basic fact of, you know, its existence. Denying reality doesn't change reality. As for the ludicrous claim that Obamacare's critics were universally wrong in all of their predictions (a comprehensively debunked article of faith on the Left), I'm not sure even Obama's assembled crowd of partisans believed him. Conservatives warned that Obamacare would raise premiums and out-of-pocket costs, reduce choice and competition, bend the cost curve up, throw people off of their plans, deny people the ability to keep their preferred doctors, and that the model would collapse under its self-created adverse election problem. Literally all of that is happening. Obama's assertion is almost diametrically opposed to the truth, as evidenced by the projections released by his own administration. In fairness, watching your own signature "accomplishment" fail spectacularly in real-time, vindicating virtually all of your opponents' arguments must be humiliating -- especially to someone with an infamously massive ego. So delusion is an understandable coping impulse. Plus, lying to Americans' faces about Obamacare is sort of his thing.

Back in the real world, as you're already aware, Obamacare's glorious open enrollment period is underway, and the "great" news keeps piling up. We've covered the departures of several insurance titans from most Obamacare markets, forced out by the law's demographic failings and fatally flawed model. It looks like another major player in the industry is setting the stage to withdraw from participation in 2018, which would trigger another bout of premium spikes and cancelled plans one year from now. Timing is everything, and math is math:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...spending-climbs

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Now seems like a good time to remind you that Democrats are exclusively to blame for this law, which they sold to the public with a pack of lies, distortions and exaggerations. They now want more government control, more federal coercion, and more taxpayer-funded spending to "fix" their mess with failed "solutions." Meanwhile, Obamacare apologists are busy parroting a specious talking point that 85 percent of Obamacare enrollees are eligible for significant subsidies to defray the costs of their increasingly expensive plans, so concerns about skyrocketing rates are overblown. As John Sexton points out, this argument avoids several inconvenient facts: (1) Subsidies don't grow on trees; they're paid for by John Q. Public. (2) Approximately half of the consumers participating in America's individual healthcare market are not eligible for subsidies. That's millions of people. (3) Even with taxpayer help, many would-be Obamacare enrollees have discovered that they still can't afford the "Affordable" Care Act.

One of the Left's most feeble spin attempts amidst the law's manifest failings is that the disaster they endorsed and passed -- over the will of voters, and at great expense to taxpayers --is only affecting a relatively small group of people, so everyone should just relax. Setting aside the enduring statistical fact that Obamacare is harming more people than it's helping, another fact is that it is also betraying the vast majority of Americans who get coverage through their employers. Premiums keep inching higher for tens of millions of these people. The promise was significantly lower rates for everyone. And then there are the rising out-of-pocket costs, to boot:

Employer-based health coverage: Average annual deductible for single coverage is up 49% over the last 5 years

I'll leave you with a refresher that Hillary Clinton's so-called plan to "fix" the law she first proposed and still supports would result in millions of (relatively) unaffected and insulated Americans in the employer-based market being dumped into the dysfunctional Obamacare market. Pay no heed to any of that, Obama insists, and ignore those lying Republicans, or whatever. Pathetic.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2...-costs-n2240836