Once again I would like to take the opportunity to thank not only all of those brilliant folks who saw fit to vote for Barry "Almighty" a second time, but also all of those who, for some bizarre reason, thought that simply staying home on Election Day would make a jim-dandy way for them to make some sort of a political statement. Well, the fruits of their monumental stupidity are now coming to bear. Because, you see, the so-called "Cadillac Tax" facing employers who offer premium healthcare plans to their workers is already having an affect on many employees, even though it doesn't officially kick in until 2018.
Now according to The New York Times, not normally a publication I pay all that much attention to, many employers say that they have to get started bringing down costs now, so those employees who may be used to $20 co-pays at the doctor's office and $500 deductibles are learning a new, and rather costly, reality. Many of those folks are now looking at deductibles that could be as high as $6,000 for families. And that is exactly how the Obamacare planners designed it, the Times story says. And it's exactly what many who, at the time were accused of spreading rumors, were trying to warn us about.
I think most of us understand that it was the intent, all along, of what is officially known as the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, to get companies to simply drop plans that protect workers from the high cost of healthcare, which can lead to unnecessary tests and procedures. "The consumer should continue to expect that their plan is going to be more expensive, and they will have less benefits," Cynthia Weidner of the benefits consultant HighRoads told the Times. The lies that were told to the American people by Democrats determined to pass this thing, become more apparent everyday.
Still, the tax is one of the most controversial parts of the healthcare law. It imposes a 40 percent tax on the portion of a health plan's cost that exceeds $10,200 for an individual and $27,500 for a family. That cost includes what both the employer and employee pay. Some employees are feeling the pinch already. The Times talked to a nursing assistant who had to drop out of school and get extra jobs to pay for medicine for her husband, who has cystic fibrosis. "My husband didn’t choose to be born this way," said Abbey Bruce. That, apparently, is not how the Democrats view it.
"The reality is it is going to hit more and more people over time, at least as currently written in law, " said Bradley Herring, a health economist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Herring estimated that as many as 75 percent of plans could be affected by the tax over the next decade, unless employers manage to significantly rein in their costs. Look, the point of Obamacare was never to reduce cost or make it possible for more people to obtain insurance coverage. Anyone who believes that is a complete moron. It was to put our healthcare under the control of the government.
Killing Obamacare must be the rallying cry for the 2014 election. And it must be used against not only Democrat candidates, but also against any Republican who has refused to act whenever an opportunity to weaken it, or to cut funding for it, presented itself. Sure there have been votes taken to repeal it, but every time there has been a chance to reduce its funding, our stellar House leadership has taken a pass. We must attack Obamacare on multiple fronts until the day comes when we are able to finally drive a stake right through its black heart, because the government has no business in our healthcare.
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