Progressives aren't big on details
http://hamptonroads.com/2014/04/ambrose-progressives-arent-big-details
Some well-known commentators say all is now proven OK. Obamacare works.
Excuse me, but this is just one of the early steps along with a stumble in a march of a thousand tortuous miles. We don't even know those signing up are the young, healthy, previously uninsured people who were targeted, but there is much we do know.
We do know, for instance, that President Barack Obama has delayed the employer mandate that might strip jobs from the workplace so that it will come after the 2014 midterm elections. That may mean near-term political disaster is somewhat less likely - but certainly not that human disaster is ruled out.
We know that Obamacare, while doing some truly good things that could have been done more simply, could portend a doctor shortage. We know that new regulations are causing mass confusion in hospitals. We know that a new tax in the act has already cost 33,000 jobs in the medical device industry.
We know a couple of million people may leave the workforce because of the law, thereby reducing wealth production in the nation. We know people had to give up plans they liked for those they did not like. We know many are being hit with higher premiums and that literally tens of millions will remain uninsured under the program.
I see the progressive yawns out there, and I guess I will induce more as I move on to the president's latest populist palaver meant to affect those aforementioned 2014 elections.
The president is still talking about the desperate need for a new minimum wage that would likely get at least a half-million people laid off. He doesn't mention the picky, picky, picky half-million.
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(Entire article is at the link. Zim.)
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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