22 Mar 2013
Because the mainstream media lobbied every bit as hard as Obama to win passage of ObamaCare, they are every bit as invested in doing whatever is necessary to see that it is perceived as a success. Unfortunately for Americans who expect truth from their media, this means the media are having to manufacture a false reality that says ObamaCare is, to steal a phrase, "doing fine."
Because the mainstream media lobbied every bit as hard as Obama to win passage of ObamaCare, they are every bit as invested in doing whatever is necessary to see that it is perceived as a success. Unfortunately for Americans who expect truth from their media, this means the media are having to manufacture a false reality that says ObamaCare is, to steal a phrase, "doing fine."
In order to manufacture this phony reality, the media must further sell their blackened soul by violating one of their most cherished principals: reporting on how government policy hits America's weakest the hardest. It's just a fact that the worst fallout of ObamaCare is already landing hard on the working class, who are losing work hours, jobs, and their insurance.
Usually when a government policy hits
the working class, the media will fall all over themselves to "tell
their personal stories." But not these people. The media perceives these
poor souls as sacrifices to a bigger cause known as The State.
So with that in mind, I present to you (with big hat tips to Drudge and Investors Business Daily) the top ten ObamaCare horror stories the media is willfully covering up.
In no particular order…
1. Millions are and will lose the
insurance Obama promised they could keep. Because ObamaCare forces
employers to offer expensive Cadillac plans but also offers the option
of paying a fine for not providing health insurance that can be cheaper
than providing it, between seven and twenty million Americans are likely
to lose their health insurance coverage according to the Congressional
Budget Office. The original estimate was closer to four million.
2. The cost of healthcare premiums is about to further skyrocket.
Premium costs have already exploded, but that is a slow-motion
explosion. In the near future, we could see costs double or worse.
Naturally, these costs will hit an already burdened middle class
hardest.
The Federal Reserve's March beige
book on economic activity noted that businesses "cited the unknown
effects of the Affordable Care Act as reasons for planned layoffs and
reluctance to hire more staff."
Meanwhile, human resources
consulting firm Adecco found that half of the small businesses it
surveyed in January either plan to cut their workforce, not hire new
workers, or shift to part-time or temporary help because of ObamaCare.
4. Potential doctor shortages that will
mean rationing: The healthcare industry is already a bureaucratic
quagmire. ObamaCare is about to add steroids. As the profession becomes
tyrannized by government, the talented people currently practicing
medicine plan to get out sooner than expected. Who knows how many will choose not to get in.
Doctor shortages are what lead to the nightmare known as rationed care. Here's an unsettling example already being practiced.
5. Somewhere around $800 billion in tax increases will hit America's middle class.
This added burden will not only further oppress a middle class already
reeling from a drop in wages over the last few years, but could damage
the overall economy.
6. Inflation, the cruelest tax on the
poor. When businesses get socked with added costs brought about by
higher taxes and burdensome government mandates, they pass those cost
along to the consumer in the form of higher prices.
7. Added bureaucracy. Even those Obama lapdogs over at the Washington Post's Wonk Blog are admitting that applying for health care is about to get more burdensome than the byzantine paperwork involved in buying a home.
8. To cut costs or to avoid having to provide insurance, workers on the economic margins are already losing hours, which means a lower paycheck. There are a million sad stories in ObamaVille; here are just a few of them.
9. ObamaCare is projected to add $6.2 TRILLION to a deficit the GAO has already declared "unsustainable." That's "trillion" with a "t".
10. More taxes than currently estimated are likely to hit because of situations like this one.
Three years ago, Obama, Democrats, and
his media lied to us about cutting the cost of health care, being able
to keep our insurance, and not taxing the middle class.
Today, those lies and what ObamaCare is and will do to the working and middle class are the biggest untold story in America.
The media is currently engaged in an ObamaCare cover-up every bit as big, corrupt, and damaging as the ongoing Libya cover up.
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