Susan Stamper
Brown, CP Guest ContributorFebruary
3, 2014|11:22
am
While
listening to the State of the Union (SOTU) address by the coolest president ever
last week, I felt an odd chill go up my leg (because of the polar
vortex) when I mused over why people loyally vote for and trust those who
instinctively make things worse every time they try to fix
something.
Missteps have happened so much during the Obama administration, one might
be tempted to think they are happening on purpose. After all, what is the
alternative? We have an administration full of dummies? Or do they just look
that way on purpose, so they can pull off their Wreck-it Ralph
agenda?
Forget what you heard during the SOTU address, the economy stinks. The
Commerce Department and ABC News tell us the economy was much weaker last year
than it was in 2012, growing at a lackadaisical 1.9 percent. I may not be an
economist, but I am smart enough to know that Reaganomics worked. Raising taxes,
stimulus spending and inhibiting job growth by overregulation is either a really
dumb agenda to fix the economy or fixing the economy really was not on the
agenda.
So, we should assume that fixing healthcare was…on the agenda? Well,
healthcare would need to be broken, first, right? Back in 2009 when the economy
needed fixing and Democrats owned Washington, they told us straight up our
healthcare system was broken. With a little tweaking…obliterating…or something,
everyone could keep their doctors and plans and there would be plenty left over
for the uninsured. Nonsense.
If dismantling the U.S. healthcare was not enough, just last week at the
SOTU address, Obama said, "No American can ever again be dropped or denied
coverage for a preexisting condition…" Well sure, you may not lose coverage for
asthma, but you will surely lose it if you have a "preexisting condition" like
having a preexisting insurance plan of which Democrats disapprove! Obama and
Democrats downplayed the more than 5 million people that lost coverage last
year, discounting them as "just five percent" of the population but get their
panties in a wad over the job-creating "one percent."
Weird thing is, coverage for pre-existing conditions is yesterday's news.
Prior to 1996, insurance brokers offered a "guaranteed renewability" option to
individuals, guaranteeing policy renewals without charging higher premiums for
chronic illness. Then along came the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996, wherein guaranteed renewals were no longer
optional, but mandatory. Additionally, employer group plans could not deny
coverage for those with pre-existing conditions.
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