On The Anniversary of ObamaCare - A Moment of Silence - Granite Grok

On The Anniversary of ObamaCare — A Moment of Silence

A moment of Silence - For the Victims of ObamaCare...
A moment of Silence – For the Victims of ObamaCare…

March 23rd was ObamaCare’s 4th Birthday.   No fanfare?  No celebrations?  No parades?  No Birthday cake?

Taking Skip’s lead, I checked the NH Federal delegation House and Senate Web Sites for Jeanne Shaheen, Carol Shea-Porter, and Ann Kuster.  There were no press releases, no statements, not even a tweet about the 4th anniversary of the glorious passage of ObamaCare.

Were there even odes to Health Care policy?

On Senator Shaheen’s Issues page at her Senate.gov site, the teaser blurb reads like this…

Healthcare
Rising healthcare costs are squeezing middle class families and making it difficult for New Hampshire’s businesses to keep their doors open. Senator Shaheen has worked to bring down costs and increase access to healthcare throughout her career, and she’s committed to comprehensive healthcare reform that works for working families and businesses.

The first sentence is accurate but only because nothing in the second sentence is true.  Jeanne Shaheen’s record clearly shows a history of reducing choices, limiting access, and driving costs up.  She has consistently pandered to Big Medicine and moved health care from more choices to fewer, always pushing the needle toward a corporatist single-payer model that picks winners and losers, and harms businesses and families.

Congressperson Carol Shea-Porter’s House page has been scrubbed.  There is no ‘Issues’ page, and no mention of health care I could find.  If she has an issues page or any reference to the issue of ObamaCare, it is buried.

Congressperson Ann Kuster has a page on Health Care, but there is no mention of ObamaCare on it.  Not even a hint.  She has some ideas to share, all of which are contradicted by her support for ObamaCare.

It is my goal to help ensure that all Granite State families have access to affordable, quality health care.  I am committed to working with the business community and all stakeholders in a fiscally responsible way to lower the skyrocketing cost of medical care.  If both parties work together, we can crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse within the health care system, reduce overpayments to insurance companies, and start paying health care providers for how well they treat patients, rather than how often.

ObamaCare institutionalized your health and places layers of bureaucrats in between you and anything resembling Care.  It has to.  You can’t say you can control costs unless you exercise…what’s the word?, control.

In an open marketplace consumers cut down on waste, fraud, abuse, and over-pricing by shifting their dollars to plans and services that meet their needs on terms they are willing to accept, thereby sending signals as to what most people want, and what they will pay to get it.  The market is incentivized to deliver the most service at the best possible price, and balances its internal processes to avoid unnecessary costs unrelated to care that might allow their competition to undercut them and steal their customers.

Everything that has damaged that model is the result of Government meddling and interference by the state.  (See Jeanne Shaheen’s actual history for examples of this.)  ObamaCare is the latest and largest peak in regulatory interference.

ObamaCare does the opposite of what the market would do.  There is no competition.  Waste, fraud, and abuse, are features.  The only way to cut costs is by limiting plans, access, reducing options, eliminating procedures, medications, and treatments.   (The bureaucracy tasked with managing waste, fraud and abuse–see also perpetuating it–will never have to bear cuts to improve costs, and in all likelihood will continue to grow.)

This is why we have moved past celebration to a requiem.   What little you do hear is a funeral dirge sung by idiots and fools.  ObamaCare has put the American Health Care system on death watch.  Instead of cakes and celebrations–a few sad, sadistic, progressive Democrat lunatics aside–we now embrace a moment of silence.   An enduring silence, all the way to election day.

Light a candle.  Say a prayer.  Democrats are killing health care.   It is nearly dead.  And if there is any justice in this world, it will take their political careers with it.

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