Happy Monday folks,
As Americans celebrate George Thorogood’s 64th birthday today, we are reminded that while Thorogood is bad to the bone, Obamacare is just plain bad.
Aside from the fact that it raises the cost of healthcare for hard-working American families and that “Cities, counties, public schools and community colleges around the country have limited or reduced the work hours of part-time employees,” as a result of the law, Obamacare continues to lack transparency.
As David Nather of Politico recently vented, “is it really that unreasonable to ask how many uninsured people Obamacare has covered so far? The answer, apparently, is: Yes. It’s unreasonable.”
And small businesses “have been slow to select [Obamacare] plans through the marketplaces since the rollout last fall” because “businesses in many states have been left with an online-shopping portal that is only partially functional — if they have one at all,” according to J.D. Harrison of The Washington Post.
Healthcare for 15.9 million seniors in Medicare Advantage is in jeopardy as well. On Friday afternoon, the Obama Administration proposed cuts to payments for insurers for Medicare Advantage plans (on top of “some set to phase in automatically under the federal health-care law.”)
Anna Wilde Mathews of The Wall Street Journal recently reported that, “Sarah James, an analyst with Wedbush Securities, said she calculated the overall rate cut at around 7.8%, compared with her projection of between 6% and 7%, not including an industry fee levied under the health-care law.”
Too many Americans are suffering due to President Obama and his Congressional allies’ liberal agenda. Conservatives must continue to show the American people that smart policy beats an agenda that hurts Americans’ pocketbooks any day of the week.
Thorogood the day.