It was once known as the ‘grey lady’. It was once influential. It was once revered and respected. Now it is a shell of its once formidable self. It is the New York Times, now best used to train puppies on.
In an opinion piece today, a piece that comes complete with pom poms and full-throated cheers for Team Obama, the Times gleefully draws from a report issued by the Dept. of Health and Human Services. That alone should warrant caution, given the recent ineptness of that department. But the Times, never flinching from seeing good in all-things-Obama, promotes the report. Enthusiastically.
In the report is what one would expect: the wonders of affordable health care premiums for so many. Now I did not read the report. Why subject myself to the musings of socialistic rubbish? And in fairness, I have to assume the report notes the many subsidies for 9 of 10 enrollees in Obamacare. Small wonder the premiums are small and affordable: others are paying the balance.
The report, as thumbnail sketched by the giddy folks at the Times, points to what the Times calls bargain rates by any measure. See: subsidies. The report does note that 29% were adversely affected with rising premiums (which were to fall for most or all as they keep their doctor and their plan. Period). The Times does not note how many lost what was promised repeatedly in the way of a lie and I suppose the report itself does not either.
Conveniently, the Times dismisses many studies that point to millions, perhaps 30 million, will not be covered even with Obamacare at the ready. But the Times, shish boom bah, gives a cheer for near-universal coverage. Really? Millions not covered, but near-universal. Someone at the Times is more than math challenged.
How any entity or any individual can cheer on something most want no part of, something that trebled in price before its staggeringly inefficient roll out and now has higher than anticipated subsidies, is not only bewildering, it denies the realty that this programmatic beast will costs more and more, likely morph well beyond its intended purposes and become a typical government program: unmanageable.
But hey, for those who think the VA, a provider of medical care for our veterans, is a government model to build on, they are going to love Obamacare. Just ask the Times.
Thanks to our RATM member and guest contributor Clem DeWitt for this.