How broken is it?

"The Democrats have taken apart a very complex watch, lost a few pieces, and now that the watch is not working, they are asking the Republicans to help fix it." 

Yesterday, when my wife and I were on the way to pick up our grandson, I told her what I thought was happening right now with ObamaCare in Minnesota. I told her the Democrats are in a full out panic, trying very hard to put together a special session which would ameliorate the financial suffering from ObamaCare rate increases. Oh yes - the Governor and the Senate Leader (both cheerleaders for ObamaCare and MNSure) would also need the Speaker of the House to sign off on what a special session would do. 

I was in a meeting with the Speaker earlier this month. Although he does not want to see the good citizens of Minnesota suffer under this broken ObamaCare system, there is a delicious irony to what is happening. The Democrats have taken apart a very complex watch, lost a few pieces, and now are asking the Republicans to help fix it. The biggest question however, is this watch (ObamaCare) fixable?

The only solution I have heard so far was from the House Minority Leader. His idea? Find a "pot of money" and give people rebates who are paying over 10% of their income to these out of control rate hikes. Huh? First problem - there is no "pot of money". Second problem - until ObamaCare is fixed or killed, the cost problems will keep on happening on a yearly basis. Why? ObamaCare was NEVER intended to control health care costs in the first place.

On the national news this morning, it was reported that the average increase for many plans were going up 25% next year. And that is a whopper! However, in a few select states, the increases will be higher than 25%. Minnesota is one of those states. Ouch! And that is why our Governor and the state wide Democrats are in a full tilt panic. All the Governor could say when asked about these increases was "The Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable". Thank you Captain Obvious!

By the way, for those who are licking their chops expecting a pivot into a single payer system, I have two letters for you to ponder - VA. Yes, we have seen how the VA operates as a single payer system. Not well, not well at all. And when we throw the entire country on this system, we will find out what real wait times and rationing are all about. We will then have actualized Obama's and Clinton's dream - Euro healthcare for the United States. 

The question remains, how broken is ObamaCare right now? And is it too broken to fix? I am certainly not a health care expert, but I have listened to people who are. For those in the know, what is happening today has been a slow motion train wreck taking place over the past few years. They have seen the hand writing on the wall and tried to warn us over and over and over again.

Our last chance to kill ObamaCare was the 2012 election. Many decided to stay home rather than vote for Mitt Romney. Ergo, we ended up with four more years of Obama and the final nail in the coffin for any chance of killing ObamaCare. We are now headed for single payer. 

One final thing to ponder over the next two weeks. Elections have consequences. The consequences we are now facing from the 2008 and 2012 debacles are huge - devastating to our healthcare.

If we let Hillary in the White House, we will have a similar buyer's remorse in a few years when her socialist Supreme Court changes the fabric of our Republic.