Obamacare? We Should Have Seen You Coming | Tenth Amendment Center

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Many readers of this site may find what happened in late March to be unbelievable.  They may wonder how the paradigm was set that the Federal Government has no bounds to its authority whatsoever. 

This is the product of naiveté, as conservatives turned a blind eye to President Bush’s Medicare Part D expansion, the U.S. Patriot Act, and budget-busting deficits as far back as the eye can see. 

Indeed, republican presidents seem to use the somewhat stronger affinity of their party towards a smaller government as a kind of cover to allow them to expand the government beyond the bounds it had prior to their presidency.

Not that the other statists are any better, but when they expand the government they say ‘I am going to expand government so that more people are dependent upon it’ – such as the “Obamacare” bill.  In 4 years (the delay was primarily so the Congressional Budget Office score would come in better) people will start expecting the government to take care of their every medical need. 

Any person at that point who tries to do any reform or cost cutting will be viewed as a tyrant, intent on denying the most needy among us our (entitled) health care.  At that point it will be too late to save the American republic.

When the full affects of Obamacare are in play, health insurance companies will become just a Government-sponsored entity. They will have the responsibility to provide care for any applicants- without the possibility of denying coverage. At this point, the risk pool will expand exponentially (as they will be required to provide for any request, from any citizen, for any procedure). 

In tandem with this expansion of requirements for benefits, they will be denied any rate increase to cover the increased risk. There are only two possibilities:

1.  The “private” insurers will go bankrupt, leaving all of their insure-ees as medical wards of the state.  These people will have to join a Government Plan (once all the private insurers are bankrupt) as it will be clear there is no money to be made in the health insurance market. So, no new companies will be started to take the place of the old ones.

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