Time to use the f-word about Obamacare
The
word is "fraud." It is now clear that the American people and their
representatives in Congress were lied to, in order to obtain passage of Obamacare. When someone is induced to undertake an action based on false representations, that constitutes fraud. Investor's Business Daily lays out the calculation that motivated the fraud.
On this ground alone, aside from all the others, the law ought to be repealed.
Back in 1994, when Bill Clinton was pushing his own version of "comprehensive health reform," the insurance industry launched its infamous "Harry and Louise" ads to deliver a simple message: The Clinton plan would force families to give up their own health plans.NBC News has already uncovered evidence that members of the president's staff knew that millions of people would not be able to keep their insurance. It may be possible to claim that the president was so preoccupied with his golf game, bracketology, parties, and TV that he was unaware. "President Bystander" as the GOP now correctly labels him. But incompetence does not negate the fraudulent nature of the passage of Obamacare.
In one of these, the middle-class couple pours (sic) over a pile of documents at the kitchen table, while a narrator intones about how "things are changing, and not all for the better," and how "the government may force us to pick from a few plans designed by government bureaucrats."
"Louise" then complains that "having choices we don't like is no choice at all," and the ad concludes with the couple saying, "They choose, and we lose."
The campaign was devastating. Even though Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress, Clinton's bill never made it out of congressional committees.
So when President Obama decided to take another stab at health care, he was determined to avoid that pitfall. He endlessly promised in the most emphatic way possible that under his plan, Harry and Louise would have nothing to worry about.
"Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you," the president said at a July 2009 rally in New Jersey. "First of all, if you've got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you."
On this ground alone, aside from all the others, the law ought to be repealed.
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