Once we know the ultimate goal, the purpose behind the delay of the employer mandate seems clearer: to hurry the “transition time” away from employer-based health insurance and to a single-payer system. By forcing individuals to purchase compliant healthcare plans but not forcing employers to provide those plans, Obama is creating a swell of 10-13 million workers that must enroll in health insurance, but cannot obtain it from their employers. These workers thus have no choice but to use the government-controlled health insurance exchanges, or else pay a financial penalty. This will double the number of workers forced to get health insurance on the exchanges. Importantly, the IRS has ruled that if workers have access to affordable health insurance through their employer, their dependents are not eligible for taxpayer-funded subsidies on the Obamacare health insurance exchanges. Now that businesses will not be required to offer health insurance until 2015, workers and their dependents will be eligible for the subsidies. Community organizers are already being hired around the country to sign people up for the health exchanges. There are no penalties for failing to verify eligibility, and no penalties for signing up people who cannot afford to pay the monthly insurance premiums. It is set up for disaster, much like the “liar loans” that helped topple the mortgage industry when people were not required to verify their income to qualify for a mortgage. The transition time to single payer may be much shorter than Obama and his supporters thought. What better way to speed a transition to the new than to wreck the old! And how clever to accomplish the goal under the cover of accommodating your opponents! But patients continue to lose under these clever manipulations by the power elite: higher premiums, longer wait times to get into a doctor, and fewer treatment options allowed. Single-payer, government-controlled healthcare never serves patients well.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 23:26:04 +0000
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