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As has been the case for quite some time now, most headline stories concern the incumbent’s new health care tax. Today, Chris Stirewalt, digital politics editor for Fox News on-line reports that “Michael D. Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, writes in The Medicaid Time Bomb that 1.46 million of about 1.6 million Americans enrolled in ObamaCare have actually signed up for Medicaid.”

 

Mr. Tanner opines that, “If that trend continues, it could bankrupt both federal and state governments… Already Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid account for 48% of federal spending. Within the next few years, those three programs will eat up more than half of federal expenditures.”

 

At the same time, Stephanie Kirchgaessner of London’s Financial Times, Washington DC staff notes that the health care tax is also causing many of the nation’s top hospitals, especially those on the cutting edge of research and innovation, to drop out of the program.

 

In that regard, Thomas Priselac, president and chief executive officer of Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles says, “the creation of ever more narrow provider networks by insurers is being driven by price alone, and not by quality. The hospitals that are being excluded are leaders in innovation, which saves billions of dollars for the healthcare system in the long run. There is confusion between price and efficiency. The major teaching and research hospitals are more expensive not because they are inefficient but because of what they do.”

 

So, here we have two examples of how a politician claiming to be on a mission aimed at leveling the playing field via redistribution is doing the exact opposite. Because, not only isn’t redistribution working, those on top are still reaping the rewards of their financial status while the number of those without keeps growing rapidly. And if that keeps up, those in the middle will be left with just about nothing, while the quality and availability of health care in general will decrease continually.

 

And maybe the primary reason for this continuing ruination of the best health care system world-wide can be explained by the results of a Bing Pulse poll yesterday that found “Both genders showed strong disagreement with the president’s statement, “I have an open door policy where I want people to be bringing me bad news on time so that we can fix things.”

 

Perhaps the public disagreed with the incumbent’s statement because of a report from Politico “Claiming that President Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius met just once since the signing of the Affordable Care Act more than three years ago.” A direct conflict with the incumbent's claim of close involvement.

 

Therefore, in conclusion, this is another very good day for Republicans. And, as I’ve been suggesting for a very long time now, the best thing they can do right now is simply stand by quietly and watch their opponents continue to self-destruct. Because their opposition hasn’t the talent, skills, capability, knowledge or veracity  to get themselves out of the holes they’ve  dug for themselves.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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