George Rebane
You really can’t make up the stuff that rolls out of what passes for brains inside the Beltway. The ads SecHHS Sebelius is making to attract young people who neither need nor want health insurance, especially of the Obamacare variety, are designed to appeal to mental profiles that range between the innocent altruistic and the terminally imbecilic. A cognitive niche well frequented by politicians, demagogues, and other salesmen of various stripe.
But the latest batch from Team Obama to be crying bloody murder at the prospect of getting f@#&*d over by Obamacare is the National Treasury Employees Union. This is the IRS union that will now represent the 16,000+ additional IRS numb nuts to crack the whip over the rest of us who have to comply with Obamacare’s diktats. Those union guys know what a pile of crap our new healthcare law is, and they want no part of it. So they are appealing to anyone who will listen at the White House for the messiah to have mercy and include them in the growing legions of leftwingers who want a pass on Obamacare.
Their arguments are all the same – ‘we paid plenty to get your butt elected. You were bought and paid for, now deliver!’ After applying the Pelosi Principle to the unaffordable care act, everyone with a couple of neurons to rub together wants to climb on the already crowded Exemption Express.
If the Republicans can’t make hay with these kinds of political miracles coming their way, then …, oh never mind.
[31jul13 update] The daily dose of Obamacare atrocities just grows as the revelatory Pelosi Principle is applied to those thousands of pages. The newest is something called the 340B program for hospitals about which Dr Scott Gottlieb writes, “The 340B program was meant to help about 90 hospitals buy drugs to treat the poor. Now 1,675 hospitals qualify.” Read ‘How Obamacare Hurts Patients’, it’ll curl your toes the wrong way.
This part of the Obamacare trainwreck is already driving the price of cancer treatment drugs through the roof and insurance coverage sky high for such drugs. And then we come to the huge network of middle-men gamers that have suddenly appeared in the last year as this crap for law oozes across the land.
In the meantime our liberal rooting section is citing tearful anecdotes about people who have and are being helped through outlandish government subsidies, while they totally ignore the tens of thousands who will now die early cancer deaths as the 340B program kicks into high gear. And we all (well, not the progressives) have to remember that this is one of hundreds of such buckets of legal, regulatory, administrative, additional fees, procedural, … crappola that we will be forced to wade through in the coming years, unless by some stroke of luck …
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