Quicky Obamacare Schadenfreude

I was pretending to work today; I had to get up early and go to a workshop, so I didn't get a chance to comb through the material for much. I missed a nice day outside, too, temperatures hitting a wonderful 65 F.

Roger Kimball call the Obamacare Calvinball "An outrageous abuse of executive power":

. . . But it is crystal clear that we are witnessing arrant lawlessness and a silent collusion in lawlessness. I have had occasion to quote these lines from A Man for All Seasons before in this space. Roper, the prospective son-in-law of Sir Thomas More, urges him to arrest someone they suspect of being a spy. For what? More asks. He hasn’t broken any law. That doesn’t matter, says Roper. He’s a danger to you. “What would you do,” asks More, “cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?” Says Roper: “I’d cut down every law in England to do that!” More replies: “And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws being all flat?”

It’s a good question, isn’t it? When the leader of the free world makes his way back from the links, maybe someone will ask him about that.

Not surprisingly, National Review Online wants to "Replace Obamacare, Stat"

The American people realize that Obamacare is a very bad policy. But more and more conservatives agree that we need to offer a solid alternative before voters reject Obamacare root and branch. Recently, three prominent Republican senators — Richard Burr (N.C.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), and Orrin Hatch (Utah) — unveiled an alternative proposal. In this article, I would like to outline my own.

and what follows is a plausible system for a health care system on more conservative principles, without the disincentives for working that Obamacare entails.

And Obamacare has another unsatisfied customer, or as Sen. Harry Reid (D - Utah) calls them, liars: The whole law – from its name to its effects – is one bad joke. I just wish the punch line was funny.

We were always happy with our health care coverage. My husband and I have been on the same plan since 1972, when my husband graduated from vet school. We liked our plan and wanted to keep it – it provided us excellent coverage and served our needs perfectly.

Not anymore. Thanks to Obamacare, our happy relationship with our health insurance ended in November 2012 after 40 years. That’s when we received notification that our health insurance plan would cease to exist as of Dec. 31, 2013.

The company providing our coverage – ironically New York Life, “the one you keep,” according to their ads – couldn't afford to continue providing low cost, high quality benefits to subscribers younger than 65 while complying with Obamacare’s ruinous mandates. The policy was canceled nationwide.

I have no beef with my insurance company. At least they gave us a whole year’s notice and worked with us tirelessly to find us the best alternative plan. I can’t blame them for refusing to bow to the government’s demand that they commit financial suicide. Aetna, another insurance giant, may also pull out of Obamacare for similar reasons.

The problem lies with Obamacare itself. Now that our original insurance is gone, we have poorer quality supplemental coverage at a higher cost. Some of the prescriptions our previous policy paid for are now “disallowed” – if we want to continue taking them, it’s on our nickel completely. One of my prescriptions cost me twice the amount out-of-pocket than under our old plan. The agent who helped us transition to the replacement plan calculated that we’ll pay more than $10,000 per year.

What a scandal! Republican invokes God in Obamacare debate!  

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Oh, it's just an ex-Republican, and he's pro-Obamacare, so there's no danger to the separation between church and state.