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WOLF: CLASS-less Democrats; Obamacare collapsing en route to Supreme Court
Topic Started: Oct 29 2011, 06:33 AM (244 Views)
Jim Miller
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WOLF: CLASS-less Democrats
Obamacare collapsing en route to Supreme Court

Class, for lack of a better comparison, is like bladder control: You either have it or you don’t. When it comes to forcing Obamacare upon America with dishonest gimmicks, the Democrats have no class. A major portion of Obamacare just collapsed under its own weight, and Democrats are forced to admit that Republicans were right about it all along.

The Orwellian-named CLASS Act (Community Living Assistance Services and Supports) is a major entitlement program tucked quietly within the 2,700 pages of Obamacare. Its stated goal was to provide long-term care, principally nursing home care and home health visits. In reality, elderly in need became the unknowing pawns of Democrats who wanted a slick gimmick to balance the Obamacare books.

Consider just how thoroughly dishonest the Democrats have been. The White House falsely claimed that its health care overhaul would reduce the deficit. To make this appear to be true, it counted 10 years of CLASS incoming revenue but just five years of expenses. Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota admitted it was “a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing Bernie Madoff would have been proud of.” And then he voted for it. Classless.

“Totally unsustainable.” That’s how Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius described the CLASS Act in sworn testimony before the Senate Finance Committee earlier this year. Then she continued to foist it upon America anyway. Classless.

But a funny thing happened along the way to the Democrats’ health care utopia. The stubbornly inescapable and elegantly simple Stein’s Law, named for the late economist Herbert Stein, kicked in with a vengeance: “Things that can’t go on forever, don’t.” Collecting 10 years of revenues for every five years of expenses can’t go on forever, and now even HHS admits there is “no viable path forward” for the CLASS Act. Despite HHS’ fatal prognosis for the program, it wants to keep the program on the books anyway so at some point it can attempt a resurrection. Classless.

“No viable path forward.” Remember that phrase because you’ll be hearing it more often as the rest of Obamacare faces its own day of reckoning with Stein’s Law. The CLASS Act collapse is a harbinger of things to come, and two lessons are critically important:

First, the CLASS Act is nonviable for the same reason that the rest of Obamacare is nonviable: There simply isn’t enough of other people’s money to pay for it. Obamacare is propped up by the individual mandate, which forces would-be free Americans to purchase far more health insurance than they need as an obvious means to transfer wealth. Because Obamacare doles out welfare goodies to families earning up to $88,500 a year - imagine that - a whole lot of wealth needs to be transferred. The individual mandate, as currently adjudicated in federal court, has been ruled unconstitutional. If the Supreme Court resurrects the mandate, it’s likely an even higher court - the voters - will strike it down.

Let’s hope the Supreme Court, particularly in light of the CLASS Act collapse, has the wisdom of Solomon and rejects the ill-advised urge to split this baby in half. As U.S. federal Judge Roger Vinson ruled, it’s not enough simply to discard the individual mandate and hope the rest will survive. After all, the White House itself has declared that the individual mandate and the remainder of the law are “inseparably linked.” The collapse of the CLASS Act, absent its own individual mandate, is proof positive.

Second, the Democrats, from President Obama on down, were willfully and demonstrably dishonest while peddling Obamacare to the nation. There’s just no way around this fact. There’s no amount of nuance that can escape this reality: The Democrats lied. They should be reminded of this every time they try to peddle more laws. So when Vice President Joseph R. Biden claims, for example, that rapes and murders will increase if the president’s latest stimulus plan isn’t passed - an absurd claim, a four-Pinocchio whopper according to one liberal newspaper - he has forfeited any presumption of honesty. When Obama administration officials make claims, the burden of proof is on them, and until veracity can be independently confirmed, their claims deserve to be discounted. The Democrats are well into fool-me-twice territory.

Obamacare will not survive. Even if this ill-conceived law does somehow miraculously withstand the potent legal and political challenges, it cannot survive the unforgiving laws of economics. So when the president forces an unconstitutional law on the nation against the clear will of the majority of Americans and it is proving itself to be wholly unsustainable, there’s really only one conclusion you can reach about Obamacare: “No viable path forward.”
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Pat
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So rather than family care for their aged, it needs to be off sourced to home care specialists? When I was a kid, our family was the home healthcare specialists having several aged great aunts and grand parents who spent their twilight years living with us.

This entitlement isn't needed and we can't afford it. It's time for Americans to become responsible once again for the lives and care of family members.

There's probably a few good plans within the 2700 page law that can bring down costs of healthcare. Most of it sounds like garbage.
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Extended family care sounds like a great idea. But, things have changed. In years past we had nuclear families, particularly on the farms where much of the population lived. In modern times kids grow up, and move half way accross the country. We also have composite families and single parent families. And, even when you have extended families living in close proximity, the necessity for dual income wage earners makes it a reas sacrifice to care for elderly and disabled parents. And, of course the outlandish inflation in the cost of medical care has made it even worse. Much of that inflation is caused by the current system of private insurance that some seem to think is adequate and will never go away. As cost rise they may be in for a surprise. If we do nothing, the cost of medical care will break the bank both from a government perpective and an individual perspective. That is what the so called "Obama Care" was meant to address. No doubt it is flawed, but it is a start. The changes necessary to fix the problem (ie; government administered single payer) was just not politically possible given the political clout of those who have a financial interest in the status quo. Many of the provisions are remedies that at one time were supported by Republicans. Some say it was patterned after the so called "Romney Care" in Massachusetts. Today however the current crop of Republicans offer up programs that do little to control costs, but transferring costs to seniors and subscribers. Actually I think Romney himself is in his heart of hearts a moderate Republican, and a capable individual. But, the highjacking of the Republican party by the Tea Party extremists have them flip flopping like a mackeral. Too bad beating Obama had taken precedence over doing what's right for the country and it's citizens.

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