What is the answer to the problem of ObamaCare’s continued meltdown? Big Government proponents, as expected, push for more big government.
ObamaCare is in “meltdown” mode. It is failing just as its critics expected.
As a result, the proponents of Big Government are now pushing for even more government as the solution to the problems they helped create.
As Forbes noted in May, “It takes a special kind of reasoning to respond to the spectacular failure of government that is Obamacare by calling for, well, even more government.”
Yet, that is exactly what President Obama and other leftists are now doing.
“Policy makers should build on progress made by the Affordable Care Act by continuing to implement the Health Insurance Marketplaces and delivery system reform,” Obama wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association last month, “increasing federal financial assistance for Marketplace enrollees, introducing a public plan option in areas lacking individual market competition, and taking actions to reduce prescription drug costs.”
“The public plan did not make it into the final legislation,” Obama wrote. “Now, based on experience with the ACA, I think Congress should revisit a public plan to compete alongside private insurers in areas of the country where competition is limited.”
Big government created the problem Big Government is trying to solve.
The federal government has been involved in America’s healthcare market since the 1960s.
Costs for delivering healthcare to Americans have continued to increase for Americans–in large part due to the federal government interference with the free market.
When Congress allowed health insurance companies to establish monopolies, the cost curve only rose higher as this Huffington Posts graph shows.
Rather than winding back the chokehold of Big Government, for the Democrats who orchestrated and enacted the monstrosity known as the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) to now argue for “the public option” is both oxy-moronic and ironic.
“No matter who wins in November,” Forbes’ Sally Pipes writes, “the next president will face a genuine crisis of the current president’s making.”
“And it defies logic to attempt to correct this entirely predictable failure of government with ‘fixes’ that give the federal government even more control over Americans’ healthcare.”
Indeed.
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