Ya know, I’ve never been a big believer in predictions, be they political, or otherwise. But I must admit a recent political prediction did sort of catch my attention. You see, supposedly the whispers have now begun amongst those on the left that even if HealthCare.gov is fixed by the end of the month, which most say is pretty unlikely, Obamacare will likely be repealed well in advance of next year’s election. And if the website continues to fail, the push for repeal, particularly from Democrats considered to be on the endangered list, will occur very rapidly. The website is but a sideshow, the real problem is the number of people and businesses who are losing their health plans or having to pay a lot more for the same plan.
It’s important to remember here, why it was so important for Barry to promise, again and again that "if you like your health insurance/doctor, you can keep your health insurance/doctor" in the first place. For your first clue all you really need to do is to start with a search of the old memory banks for all information related to the collapse of Hillarycare back in 1994. Remember now, when Hillarycare first hit the street in September 1993 it was to high public support, according to the early polls. This was not a surprise. Opinion polls for decades have shown a large majority of Americans support the general idea of universal health coverage. But Hillarycare began to come apart as more of its bureaucratic details hit daylight.
The most important of those little details was the fact that people couldn’t be sure that they would be able to keep their doctors or select specialists of their choice. The Clintons, of course, refused to consider any compromise, and, even with large Democratic Senate and House majorities, the bill was so dead it was never even brought up for a vote. Thus the reason behind why Barry was so desperate to portray Obamacare as simply expanding coverage to the uninsured, and improving coverage for the underinsured while leaving the already insured undisturbed. But the redistributive arithmetic of Obamacare’s architecture could never add up, which is what the bureaucrats knew early on. Actually, as early as 2010.
Now wouldn’t you think that a clever bunch like those on Barry’s team would have most certainly seen this little snafu coming and reacted by making time to prepare a pre-emptive strategy? Or, did they know it was coming and, in typical arrogant fashion, simply figure that Barry, being the silver-tongued devil that he is, would be able to sweet-talk the American people into seeing how this was all for their own good? But now that people are losing their insurance and finding that they may not be able to keep their doctor after all, Obamacare has quickly become somewhat of a political disaster having an adverse impact on both Barry’s credibility and approval rating. But the Democrats are also taking a pretty significant hit.
So we shouldn’t be surprised that the latest rumor circling around Obamacare has to do with those senate Democrats who are beginning to see themselves as being the equivalent of a political endangered species. And supposedly, it will be they who will wind up being the ones leading the charge for repeal, which some say could come as soon as January, after they get an earful from the folks back home over the Christmas break. They’ll call it "reform," and dress it all up in calls for delaying the individual mandate and allowing people and businesses to keep their existing health insurance policies. But with the political damage will likely continue, with it being said that momentum toward repeal will become, pretty much, unstoppable.
If our Tea Party Republicans hold true to form, they will resist "reforms" to Obamacare in favor of complete repeal. Democrats, as to be expected, will try to turn the tables and set up Republicans as the obstacles to reform, hoping to inoculate themselves from what is likely to be mayhem at the polls next November. The House might do well to insist that the Senate go first, especially since they can rightly insist that the Senate needs to clean up the mess that they made. And Barry may very well give Democrats a pass on a repeal vote, and veto any bill that survives. After all, what’s he got to lose at this point? He’ll never have to face the voters again, and his job approval rating is already pretty far into the toilet.
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