Under the sub-title of “What the Public expects from a lie too often spoken” are the facts no politician dare confess: Politicians make promises with no consideration for the consequential effect of unrealistic claims knowing full well that a Public relieved of its personal responsibility is a Constituent for Life.
Take, for instance, Obamacare, a program designed to be both invasive and a failure. I understand this may seem quite peculiar however, if you consider that the ulterior motive – which would otherwise be politically unsurvivable for President Obama and several key Democrats if attempted in one comprehensive move – was to end up with a national single-payer system (Medicare) then the need for an intermediate step makes sense.
Already accumulating costs in excess of $1.4 Trillion Obamacare’s mounting costs aren’t just measured in premium and covered-care subsidies, it’s in an area far more troubling: The near total destruction of a market-based system. To give the appearance of cost control and conformity, and to conceal the actual costs away from the weary eye of cost-conscious observers, the ACA pushed coverage-compliance (mandates) to the insurance industry who then, in an attempt to cover the bleeding costs of ACA, was forced to deconstruct the market-based premium and product model in exchange for guaranteed, taxpayer-funded, direct reimbursements.
You understand this, right? Let me put in in simpler terms: The government knowingly mandated a program that was fiscally unmanageable and then pushed it to the Insurance Industry to deliver the undeliverable with the promise that the government would reimburse the Carrier’s for the costs of attempting to deliver the undeliverable! Brilliant! Meanwhile, Healthcare Providers, in response to shallow reimbursements for the costs of covered and indigent care, are then forced to surcharge fees in an effort to cover the mounting costs of unfunded charges.
Now then, here’s the truth about why Trump and his Congress are slow-walking the ObamaCare Repeal and Replacement routine. With the advent of government intervention into the Healthcare system, and finalized by the invasive features of ACA, there is no part of what remains of the Healthcare structure that has not been molested. Trump and his team have now discovered that the system has so completely metastasized into a government subsidy-dependent organism that separating the mass back into its individual components, in one move (simultaneous Repeal & Replace), is impossible.
To correct the error of Government-Intervention is not an easy process. To restore market routines back to a system that has been braised by the allure of government no-price-for-failure economic platitudes, bleaching an Industry of both its adopted dependency as well as the feared risk of reoccurrence. The risk that once government determines it can mandated a breach into the metrics of a market-based system it’s fully expected there’s a high degree of probability they’ll screw with it again.
Still, there are solutions to the problem and we’ve worked to be sure that the Administration and Congress are fully aware of the program we’ve developed, and yet I confess that even as sound and fully-functional our approach may be the truth is that an appropriate solution has never been beyond our reach. The Political Will has been, persistently, conspicuously absent. Half-witted efforts, coupled with incomprehensible and usurious political opportunism, has made a mockery of “social safety-net” ideal. In the process, it has delivered a dysfunctional entitlement system where unfunded mandates, for Social Security and Medicare alone, have moved passed $145 Trillion (and growing) mark. On this fact alone, suffice it to say, the Government should never be entrusted to faithfully manage programs at risk for this level of mismanagement.
Whatever becomes of a post-Obamacare marketplace one fact should be abundantly clear; Mr. Trump and his GOP Congress are going to own it and the Dems are going to make sure of it. Americans had better hope the Administration is able to get it right.
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
