Reason’s Nick Gillespie went to healthcare.gov this morning bright and early to check out the offerings for Obamacare. Here’s what he got: Early glitch or sign of things to come?
The Story Behind the Government Shutdown
10/01/2013
Much like the day after sequestration budget cuts kicked in, most people will wake up today to find that the country and their lives aren’t much different. All the fearful fretting over shutting down the government—which is reaching Y2K proportions in the media—is really a distraction.
Government funding isn’t the issue. It’s Obamacare.
The House has passed multiple bills that would fully fund government but would defund or delay Obamacare. The Senate has rejected these plans, and Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges are supposed to open today.
Never mind the fact that Congress and the Administration have already delayed major provisions of Obamacare and given special considerations to labor unions and Congress.
We believe the American people deserve an exemption from Obamacare.
The President and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) continue to go against the will of the public to protect an unworkable law that has raised individuals’ health care premiums, cut workers’ hours, made it more difficult to find a job, and has forced many Americans off their existing health coverage.
The real story isn’t the government shutdown, but rather the insistence by President Obama and Reid to foist Obamacare on the American people.
Congress is now haggling over delays to more parts of Obamacare, but the only way to protect Americans from this law’s sickening effects is to defund it.
While this debate plays out on Capitol Hill, essential government services will continue. Airports are still functioning, Social Security checks are still going out, and the military is still protecting us.
To President Obama and his allies, the government takeover of health care is an “essential” function that should move forward, despite deep disagreements about its effect on the nation. This debate isn’t over, nor should it be until the American people are protected from having their health care in the hands of government.
A government shutdown isn’t the end of the world, but an Obamacare shutdown would be a great beginning for real health care reform.
The Affordable Care Act has nothing to do woth the current budget crisis. The tea party attached the health care law to a budget vote.
They do not know how laws are passed and amended in congress. You do not attach pet peeves to the budget. This will make it even harder for Republicans running for higher office.
Throw the tea party out of the Republican party. Right now they are a drag on Republicans.
sorry all budgets for are tagged with special interest legislation and have been for over 200 years ,it si typical Washington
Yeah no one wants Obamacare — that’s why the ACA web sites have been flooded since the market exchanges opened yesterday.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/health/Affordable_Care_Act_website_overwhelmed_for_2nd_day.html
all the sites have crashed due to operation glitches, if you love it now is your chance to go sign up
Ironic how Obama is being lambasted for setting up efficient health care “exchanges” (read markets) by the same people who run on a “free markets” platform. Universal healthcare adds liquidity to the labor market removes one more barrier to pure factor migration. In short it will be a boon for American productivity once the transient adoption costs have been incurred.
You Randriods do realize you are being duped, right? Oh right.
The Republicans should follow this advice:
You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed, you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in. But we’re going to get health care reform
passedrevoked for the American people.