Bad Medicine

 

 

"Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease..."

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Step right up to the front of the tent and Dr. Feelgood will show you the most amazing thing! Two drops of this magic elixir every morning and within two weeks, you will lose ten pounds, your libido will be restored, and every ache and pain you have will be gone! All the good doctor asks in response is that you pay your money up front and trust him. Millions upon millions have already tried the magic elixir and they are proof positive it works!"

I think we all remember reading stories as youth about the flim flam man coming into town with the carnival or circus to sell his magic elixir to the unsuspecting town people. Sometimes it was referred to as "snake oil" and was the cure all for just about everything. That is until the carnival was over, the snake oil salesman had moved on to another town, and you were left with nothing but bad medicine. Not only did it not cure you, it quite often made you sick.

Well, us town folk have been sold some bad medicine under the brand name of ObamaCare. Not only does it not work, but the side effects are terrible. Today, our snake oil salesman (Barack Hussein Obama) is going to meet with a former snake oil salesman (William Jefferson Clinton) to have a "conversation" about the benefits of this most unpopular healthcare law. It is thought by bringing President "Blue Dress" Clinton out of the closet, it would help give this pig some lipstick. It won't.

This monster healthcare act, of which the regulations are still being written, is a cobbled together mess of carve outs, exceptions and lies. People in Congress who helped create it, now want no part of it, and have asked for an exemption. Huh? We were promised it was not a tax, yet John Roberts in the historic Supreme Court ruling said it was. President Obama promised us all costs would come down after passage, and the reverse has shown been true - in spades. The Affordable Care Act could be renamed with a more appropriate name such as The Pay More, Get Less Act.

One of the cornerstones of the act was the ability for parents to keep their children on their coverage until age 26. Two points with that. First, I was off my parents coverage when I was 19. I was covered under the Navy, then the University and by age 26, I was married and working for Sperry Univac, covered by medical benefits. Second - surprise! If your employer stops covering your family due to the cost of the new health care law, this "cornerstone" becomes moot. In the end, your twenty something kid will not be covered and will have to run down to an exchange and get sticker shock on how much he or she will have to pay.

The snake oil salesman is still in town. He and his merry bunch from Congress are still within arm's reach. EVERY poll which as been taken has shown the "townspeople" either don't understand this law, hate it, or both. The chances of getting this thing de-funded without committing mass suicide is slim. I wish we could, but it won't happen. However, using the correct strategy, as well as leveraging the will of the American people, I think we could get this thing delayed until all the lies and untruths are wrung out of it. The American people deserve to see the Carfax. We need to know it we bought a lemon or not.

Having a "conversation" today between a sitting president and a former president, both of whom have difficulties with the truth, will tell us nothing. Truth tellers are needed now more than ever. If the medicine is bad, we need to know it before we start taking it in January.