How can this be a surprise

For the last few days we have been seeing headlines in the media about a surprising "discovery" about Obamacare.; the law allows millions of people with incomes in the area of $70,000 per year to get free healthcare under Medicaid, the program meant to provide healthcare to the poor. These families have incomes in the upper half of all Americans, but Obamacare was written so that everyone else has to pay for their care.

The "discovery" leads to two questions: First, how can this be something that is only now being "discovered"? Are we really to believe that no one in Congress or the Administration knew how this would play out? I do not believe it. Sure, most of the Democrats who voted for Obamacare never read the bill or had any analysis done as to how it would work. There were not full committee hearings in Congress where the committee staffs would have looked carefully at the language of the bill and advised the members of the problems presented. The text of the bill was not even made public long enough before the vote for the public to review it in detail. And, of course, we all recall the famous confirmation of Congress' refusal to actually review the text of the bill that came from then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi when she told America that Congress had to pass the bill to find out what was in it. Even so, I find it hard to believe that the Democrats in Congress could have been that unmidful of their obligatons that they just had the bill passed with zero oversight.

I also do not believe that Obama and his people were unaware of these provisions. Indeed, these are just the type of provisions that would make the success of Obamacare less likely. Think of it this way: if Obamacare gets put into practice, it will destroy the health insurance business and it will also dramatically change the medical profession and the healthcare industry. Then, when it fails, the Democrats can all say that they tried, but the only way to rescue the healthcare industry is to have a national single payer system run by the government. I believe that this mess was left in place intentionally. It is the "discovery" of this provision before it goes into effect that was unanticipated by the Obamacrats.

The second question that needs to be answered is what is going to be done about this? So far, the answer seems to be nothing. No one has even suggested that the law be amended to get this boondoggle out. Weill the American people really stand by and watch this law go into effect so that upper middle income people will get "free' medical care? I hope not.