Bill Clinton, the husband of the Democratic presidential nominee, recently knocked President Obama’s signature piece of legislation — the Obamacare health care law — as “the craziest thing in the world.”
When Bill Clinton was president, a lot of people acted like he was the smartest man who ever lived. He wasn’t, but he’s smart enough to know that Obamacare, if it’s crazy now, was crazy from the get-go.
“You’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care, and then the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half and it’s the craziest thing in the world,” the former president railed at a rally in Michigan on Monday.
Bill Clinton openly admits what Obama, and Hillary Clinton, won’t admit: That Obamacare destroys what’s left of the marketplace for health insurance and medicine, and was designed to do so.
Clinton also said the system is hurting moderately successful small businesses — the ones that aren’t doing poorly enough to be subsidized and fall just above the line.
Of course it does. Unfunded government mandates always drive up the cost of business. And business always passes along the cost to customers. That’s why health insurance premiums, in what’s left of the “market” for health insurance, have skyrocketed since the Obamacare mandates were instituted. The skyrocketing has only begun.
“On the other hand, the current system works fine if you’re eligible for Medicaid, if you’re a lower-income working person. If you’re already on Medicare or if you get enough subsidies on a modest income that you can afford your health care,” Clinton said.
He’s actually right. It’s not that Medicaid “works” or is justified. Charity should never be coerced by government; charity should always be voluntary. However, given the system we have, you’re much better off if you’re eligible for Medicaid than if you have to go to the healthcare.gov website and figure out which insurance to buy. I get this feedback on a regular basis from my clients/patients. If they’re eligible for Medicaid, they’re doing pretty well, and they don’t have to pay a penny for it. But if their income goes even $1 above the threshold for Medicaid eligibility — they’re sunk. Overnight. I have seen this happen many times since the Obamacare law passed. Increasingly, government pays people not to work by enticing them with free Medicaid.
Obamacare is merely an extension of Medicaid to much of the population, although not to all of it. The framers of Obamacare knew it would do all of this. They passed it anyway, in hopes that this would hasten the day when the health insurance marketplace would eventually collapse, and then everyone would be covered by government, under one gigantic, nationalized Medicare-Medicaid umbrella.
They sold Obamacare as an improvement in the marketplace, using Obama’s infamous line, “If you like your doctor and health insurance, you can keep them.” It never was the truth, and the politicians who pushed the bill through Congress knew it all along. The honest thing would have been to say, “Look, you’re going to get single-payer, universal health insurance whether you want it or not.” At least it would have been out in the open, and people could have debated national health insurance, rather than the confusing Obamacare law we got.
“But the people getting killed in this deal are the small-business people and individuals who make just a little bit too much to get any of these subsidies,” Clinton added.
The criticism comes as the Washington Free Beacon uncovered private audio of Hillary Clinton also knocking Obama’s legacy legislation.
The health care bill “has done a lot of good, but I’m gonna fix some of the things that need fixing. It’s like any other new program,” Mrs. Clinton told donors on the private audio.
Bill and Hillary Clinton always knew Obamacare was a scam. So did Obama, and so did everyone else who advocates socialism in Washington DC (i.e., a majority of the politicians there.) Socialism is the greatest lie ever told. It logically follows that the politicians who implement socialism are the biggest scammers the world has ever seen.
Interestingly, Bill Clinton’s attempted health plan, back in 1994, called for just about the very same proposals Obamacare eventually passed into law in 2010. If Bill Clinton understands in 2016 that Obamacare was a scam, he undoubtedly understands that his own proposed health care law, over 20 years ago, was a scam as well. It was pushed by his wife, now licking her chops at the prospect of becoming president herself, with just a month to go before the big day.
How sweet that victory will be, given her disgraced stature 25 years earlier in failing to get the Obamacare of its time passed on behalf of her husband. How perfectly awful for the rest of us. It’s truly a story worthy of the final years of the Roman Empire. Or a Netflix television series.
Like I’ve been saying, although nobody (at least yet) wants to listen: We’re witnessing Netflix’s House of Cards … only without any of the secrecy.
If polls are right, then the majority of us are participating in, welcoming, and even applauding our own destruction. Go Hill!
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