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Obamacare: $1 Trillion Spent and 30 Million Still Uninsured

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Wednesday, 26 September 2012 12:46

Written by Darrell Lect

Only President Obama, top Democrats and liberal special interest groups know the full impact of Obamacare.  Disguised as health care reform that would provide coverage for every American, reality is a stark difference that's fundamentally transforming how individuals interact with their doctors.  The costs of Obamacare are astronomical and unknown, as budget gimmicks were used to paint a false narrative.  After spending $1 trillion on Obamacare, there are still 30 million uninsured Americans.

Liberals are so obsessed with government-run health care because health care is how the government can control the individual, which is exactly what liberals want to do.  Obamacare had nothing to do with health care reform - it was intended to put the government in control of every American citizen.  What we're seeing is a law that's in complete chaos, but that's okay to liberals as long as they get what they want: control.

The Heritage Foundation looks at the promise of Obamacare versus the reality.  After spending $1 trillion, there are still 30 million Americans not covered by insurance - Obamacare promised to cover every American by forcing them into coverage.  So, with 30 million Americans not insured, where is the line for liberals?  There isn't one - they will sell the same narrative to spend more money and takeover more of the health care system.

On November 7, 2007, at a speech in Bettendorf, Iowa, then-candidate Obama said:

Every four years politicians come before you to talk about health care. You hear the same promises. And then you see the same results. Well it’s time to end the outrage of 47 million uninsured Americans. It’s time to finally do something about it.

Well, not much has changed since then. Four years later, the country has 48.6 million people without health insurance and a $1.68 trillion health care law that, if it even works as claimed, would still leave 30 million people without health care.

A USA Today editorial recently praised Obamacare for increasing the number of insured by 3.6 million. But those gains include 50.8 million people enrolled in Medicaid (2.3 million more than in 2010) and 46.9 million people enrolled in Medicare (2 million more than 2010). And under Obamacare, the number of people covered by government health care will continue to rise.

And for $1.68 trillion in taxpayer dollars, the number of uninsured will still be 30 million. You can almost hear the calls now for spending another $1 trillion to “finally put an end to the outrage of 30 million Americans lacking health insurance.”

A new Congressional Budget Office report points out that the cost of being uninsured under Obamacare will fall disproportionately on the backs of middle- and lower-income families. Of the $8 billion per year the federal government will collect from the individual mandate, more than 70 percent will be paid for by those taxpayers earning below 400 percent of the federal poverty level (or those earning less than $90,000 for a family of four).

Some predict that the number of uninsured will likely continue to rise as the price of purchasing government-approved health insurance will outpace the penalty for staying uninsured.

Before Obamacare, the government was already spending over a trillion on health care through Medicare and Medicaid and by extending health care tax benefits for certain people. Maybe it’s time to stop spending more money and instead think about spending the current dollars more effectively.

The spending is not the issue, although it's a major issue.  The big issue is how nothing is ever enough for liberals.  It's the exact reason why, when you ask a liberal how much someone should pay in taxes, they won't answer.  Why?  Because they believe the government is entitled to everything produced by the private sector.  Listen to Obama: you didn't build that.  Or the crackpot Elizabeth Warren.  They all sell the notion that without the government, Americans would be nothing, and, therefore, the government has the right to take anything and everything from the private sector.

They're a perverse people these liberals.

Darrell Lect is a contributing editor for Habledash.