Lowering the Bar

By Sam Huntington

According to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Obama Care will be a resounding success if, by the end of 2013, 7 million people have enrolled in the program.

Seven million —that equates to about 16% of the more than 41.3 million Americans that Sebelius claims need health insurance. I wonder if anyone besides me notices that the numbers this administration claims to be uninsured shifts like the sands of the desert. Frankly, it makes me wonder if someone in the government isn’t full of “it.”



Obama Care is a self-fulfilling prophecy and the hallmark of a system so dishonest that it could only originate with the communist left. All I will ask our readers to do is this: listen to the words carefully spoken by masters of the innuendo. They intimate that Americans are getting affordable health care; it is not only a lie —it is a damn lie. There is nothing affordable about a government Ponzi scheme that will ultimately inform Americans with health care needs that the health plan they selected does not cover much-needed treatments.

These are the facts, but each person will have to discover the truth for him or herself. I suspect, however, that it is too late. The American people overwhelmingly elected Barack Obama, so now the American people are going to have to deal with the result of this ill-considered decision.

It has been important for this administration to demonstrate ad nauseam how terrible the American health care system was; another lie. American health care was the premier system on the planet. Now, it is a thing of the past; the dye is cast. Realize, too, that Obama Care is only the first step down the path to full-blown universal health care. All of those who wanted Obama Care (along with those that didn’t) will experience the joy of having to wait until it is too late for a life-sustaining surgical procedure. Of course, government may not approve life-sustaining procedures if a citizen smokes, drinks, or eats the wrong kinds of foods —as determined by your federal government. Why do you think the federal government has obtained copies of your health records?

Of course, at this stage, we may even suspend referring to the people as citizens. We shall have to call them supplicants.

According to Hairy Reid, the real progressive target is universal health care. It is simply too much to expect the American people to swallow this pill in one fell swoop … but, if given his way, there will be a de facto communist health care system in the United States sooner or later.

According to Reid: “What we’ve done with Obama Care is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever. Our goal is to abandon insurance as the means of accessing health care. We had a good run at the public option … don’t think we have a tremendous number of people who wanted a single-payer system, but we’ll get there eventually.”

Meanwhile, someone asked Sebelius, “Is it reasonable to think middle-class families can afford as much as $5,000 or $6,000 in deductibles?” She answered, “Well, I think that families can make a budget choice. If that isn’t something that clearly they can pay for, and a lot of people couldn’t pay for that out of pocket, then they will want a lower deductible.”

More gobbledygook. What she is saying is that the only way to a lower deductible is either less coverage, or higher monthly premiums. It sounds very much like “Pay me now, or pay me later —but pay me you will.”

Sebelius may be overjoyed about the prospect of 16% of the people signing up for Obama Care, but I think it is a matter of lowering the bar on expectations. She is putting on the happy face, but it still is not clear (to me) if the American people have figured it all out yet. Personally, I think we have had as much hope and change as anyone should have to endure in three lifetimes.  

No one explains this more succinctly than Neil Cavuto: