Two stories in the news reveal the latest talking point being used by president Obama and the Obamacrats to explain the failures of Obamacare. The newest claim from the Obamacrats is that the failure of most people to sign up for insurance under Obamacare is due to -- get this -- Republican opposition to the law. That's right. The delegate of the District of Columbia, Eleanor Holmes Norton, announced that many people are not signing up for Obamacare because they think it has been repealed. At the same time, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank says that the uninsured are "being discouraged from enrolling by Republicans’ incessant opposition." Milbank then tells us that "this month’s CBS News-New York Times poll found that a majority of uninsured Americans disapprove of the new law" and blames that too on Republicans.
Think about what they are claiming. I can envision a 25 year old guy sitting at his computer trying to get on the Obamacare website sometime during the last three months, only to be told that the site is down. Surely, the failure of the Obamacrats to produce a working website had nothing to do with Republican opposition. How about a 45 year old woman who decides that the policies available are so expensive with such big deductibles that she would do better to go uninsured while paying the penalty? If she gets sick, she can always sign up at that point. That too is hardly the fault of Republicans. And what about people who lost their insurance because it was cancelled due to Obamacare? Surely they don't think that the law was repealed; if it were, they would still have insurance.
The truth is that Obamacare is, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, a health insurance program of the Democrats, and by the Democrats. No rational person now thinks that the law was repealed. Nor are there folks who decided not to sign up because the law is opposed by Republicans.
The Obamacrats are revealing their despair at the total failure of the Obamacare law. They are trying to escape the blame for that failure, but they cannot. The failure is theirs; they own it and they cannot avoid it. No silly talking points can change this reality.
Think about what they are claiming. I can envision a 25 year old guy sitting at his computer trying to get on the Obamacare website sometime during the last three months, only to be told that the site is down. Surely, the failure of the Obamacrats to produce a working website had nothing to do with Republican opposition. How about a 45 year old woman who decides that the policies available are so expensive with such big deductibles that she would do better to go uninsured while paying the penalty? If she gets sick, she can always sign up at that point. That too is hardly the fault of Republicans. And what about people who lost their insurance because it was cancelled due to Obamacare? Surely they don't think that the law was repealed; if it were, they would still have insurance.
The truth is that Obamacare is, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, a health insurance program of the Democrats, and by the Democrats. No rational person now thinks that the law was repealed. Nor are there folks who decided not to sign up because the law is opposed by Republicans.
The Obamacrats are revealing their despair at the total failure of the Obamacare law. They are trying to escape the blame for that failure, but they cannot. The failure is theirs; they own it and they cannot avoid it. No silly talking points can change this reality.
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