A Glimmer of Hope

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Light at the end of the tunnel?

Light at the end of the tunnel?

Sure, everything’s bad. Republicans fractured, caving in as we knew they would, pundits still grousing about the Ted Cruz quasi-filibuster.

But here’s the deal. Ted Cruz stood up against ObamaCare. That’s going to matter next year. Because ObamaCare is an utter, horrific disaster. It’s going to hurt almost everyone, in their pocketbooks and in their access to healthcare.

The failed website is actually a distraction from what will be painfully clear in another six months. The premiums will be higher, somewhere between 50 percent and 90 percent higher, and the deductibles will be approximately 400 percent higher.

This kind of cost increase is going to kill people. It’s not a political advantage for Republicans. It’s a rolling, escalating cataclysm. But it’s also a wake-up call for the American people.

There’s at least a chance they will notice that they can’t feed their families, that mom died because she couldn’t find a doctor, that their lives are worse and more filled with fear. Fear of a government that doesn’t care about anything but controlling them.

Toot toot, the whistle bloweth. The government train is coming down the tracks. At you.

If they notice they’re worse off, that’s a glimmer. But noticing isn’t something our people have been very good at lately.

3 thoughts on “A Glimmer of Hope”

  1. “…and the deductibles will be approximately 400 percent higher.”

    Aside from caving in, the only other thing Republicans have been good at over the years is abject failure at messaging. This deductible thing here is key b/c most people think “health insurance” means everything other than the premiums is free. Just wait until people are paying those higher premiums and then also have to pay a huge chunk of their medical bills on top of that. Because the premiums are actually to help pay for all of the illegal aliens & welfare queens, and Obamacare is really just a huge tax increase (that also has the unfortunate side effect of breaking our healthcare system). Which all of us knew from the start, but being right doesn’t count for what it used to these days.

    Will anyone notice? Well, what about your journalist friend you’ve mentioned before? You argued him into a corner until all he had left was, “Well we should just try it out and see how it works.” Once it has spectacularly *not* worked, what do you think the odds are that he’ll say, “Gee, RL, you were right. We should roll the entire thing back and get the gov’t completely out of health care.”

  2. Not to echo Tim’s grimness, but his guess echoes my own: the emotional investment in a great many people is within striking distance of their will to survive, and I’m not sure in some cases which is higher in the standing. They will not only go to their graves believing that the reason they’re going to their graves isn’t Their Guy’s fault, but they’re willing to die to prove it wasn’t their guy’s fault. It took me until pretty recently to understand just how deeply the need for denial and projection are ingrained in those who have set themselves against reality and human nature.

    However, there are a large number who are naturally on the side of truth but who have not realized the need to defend it, platitudes being the influential things they are, and there are others who have been through the foolishness and emerged wiser. Many of those are still there, and will wake when the complacent lovers of truth do. Hopefully it will be soon.

    For some reason, All Along The Watchtower is now on repeat in my head.

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