Dr. Milton R. Wolf says The ObamaCare house of cards is crumbling before our eyes. The Obama administration’s signature piece of legislation brings a sixth of the U.S. economy under federal control, and the writing is on the wall: ObamaCare will collapse under the weight of its own false promises.  The only mystery left is whether we will allow America to go down with it.

Remember when Barack Obama claimed over and over again that his health care plan would "bend the cost curve downward?"  He even declared resolutely that he would not otherwise sign the bill.  Well, add that to the growing list of ObamaCare lies.

This is going to be a bumpy flight.

The nonprofit and nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation recently released the results of a survey that shakes Obama's health care law right down to its core.  Health insurance premiums rose in 2011 to more than $15,000 per family for the first time in American history.  Not surprisingly, ObamaCare itself is to blame for much of the increase.  The forced requirement to include adult "children" on their parents’ insurance up to the age of 26, as just one example, contributed to 20 percent of the increase.

Before ObamaCare, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) projected annual health care spending would increase an average of 6.1 percent per year over the next decade.  Despite the promises, after ObamaCare passed, CMS recalculated its projections upward to 6.3 percent . Huh?  Now the Kaiser survey shows that the actual results for the first year amounted to a 9 percent increase.  Obama bent the cost curve all right -- upward.

Are the increased costs justified, even if it does break Obama's cost-curve promise because, after all, ObamaCare finally was going to provide insurance for 46 million uninsured people?  Brace yourself. According to Gallup, the percentage of adults in America without health insurance has increased since Obama took office and since he signed ObamaCare into law.

Please return your seat backs and tray tables to their full upright position.  We are hitting some major turbulence now.

OK, so health care costs are going up because of ObamaCare, and more adults are uninsured since it began -- mostly because of Obamanomics (that’s another story) -- but at least Obama promised it would reduce the deficit, right? Well, that was then, and this is now.  Administration officials are quietly abandoning the so-called CLASS Act portion of ObamaCare, supposedly meant to provide long-term elderly care.  In reality, this was the mother of all accounting gimmicks, which counted 10 years of tax revenues but just five years of expenditures to give a false sense of fiscal sanity.  Democratic senator and ObamaCare supporter Kent Conrad of North Dakota called this "a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing Bernie Madoff would have been proud of."  Absent the accounting gimmicks, the Congressional Budget Office now acknowledges that ObamaCare actually increases the national deficit by $540 billion over the next 10 years.

We have just lost cabin pressure.

Of course, while each of these three lies is damning in its own right, they barely scratch the surface of the ObamaCare duplicity.  And let me be clear: These are lies.  There’s normally something generous about our human nature that seeks to avoid that word -- lies -- but we are in an existential crisis in America, and it demands blunt and precise language.  We did not get here because of simple distortions or exaggerations or even misrepresentations.  ObamaCare is the product of statements known by their makers to be untrue and meant to deceive -- lies.

 Obama promised on at least eight occasions that he would open his health care hearings to the public.  Invite the C-SPAN cameras in, he said, so Americans would know who’s on their side.  C-SPAN Chief Executive Brian Lamb said the network certainly would have covered the meetings, but Obama "never asked us."

The ObamaCare lies are mounting: You could keep your current insurance.  You could keep your doctor.  The plan would cost less than a trillion dollars.  Medicare would be protected.  There would be no health care rationing.  No one earning less than $250,000 per year would see an increase in his taxes.  Tax credits would alleviate the burdens placed on small businesses.  The plan would create 4 million new jobs, 400,000 almost immediately.  Americans would love ObamaCare once they saw what was in it.

The crumbling of ObamaCare is now so unmistakable that its supporters have become the dog that didn’t bark.  It’s difficult to find anyone outside the administration who is still willing to defend it publicly.

Calling a lie a lie is difficult for some people, but I cannot apologize for being blunt when America’s future is at stake on such a serious matter.  At best, the only alternative is what "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno recently said of the president:  "I can’t figure out if he’s the kind of guy who makes infomercials or the kind of guy who falls for infomercials."

ObamaCare in the archive . . .

75% of ObamaCare costs on those making less than $120K a year

Jim Hoft says take your medicine, America…

Stephen Moore, Senior Economics Writer with the Wall Street Journal, told FOX and Friends this morning that nearly 75% of Obamacare costs will fall on the backs of those Americans making less than $120,000 a year.
 
“It’s a big punch in the stomach to middle class families.”

Obamacare: It’s not just a big f***ing deal… It’s a big f***ing tax.
 
More here . . .

Health care should "never be purchased with tax increases on middle class families."

At a Campaign rally in 2008, Obama said that health care should not purchased with a tax increase (October 4, 2008).

Rasmussen: Conservative anger against ObamaCare is at "stratospheric levels"

Paul Scicchitano and Kathleen Walter are reporting that conservative interest in the presidential election hit "stratospheric levels" following last week’s Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare, noted pollster and author Scott Rasmussen tells Newsmax.TV.

"All that did was energize conservatives," declared Rasmussen in an exclusive interview on Monday. "The conservative interest in the election was already much higher than that of moderates and liberals. It went up to really stratospheric levels right after the ruling. We don’t know if that will continue or if it’s just a temporary response to the news cycle."

Most importantly, he said, Republicans have to make the case that the unpopular Obamacare will be a further drain on America’s disappointing economic recovery since the economy still tops the list of voter concerns.

"Anything that can be tied to the economy is going to be an important part of the debate," observed Rasmussen, founder and president of Rasmussen Reports. "If Mitt Romney and the Republicans are able to make the case that the healthcare law is one reason the economy is struggling, well that will certainly help."

He said the same goes for energy -- and in fact all issues. "If they can tie energy into the economy being sluggish, that will help the Republicans," explained Rasmussen. "On the other hand, if Barack Obama is able to say ‘no, the healthcare is really a separate issue’ then it won’t play much of a role at all. It is first and foremost how people are feeling about the economy and every other issue matters only so long as it affects the economy."

More than half of the country -- 52 percent of American voters -- believe that Obamacare should be repealed.

"That number hasn’t changed much over the past week. In fact, it hasn’t changed much over the past two years," said Rasmussen,

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I received this from one of my conservative buds
 
At age 76 when you most need it, you are not eligible for cancer treatment (see page 272).

CBO:  ObamaCare will leave 30 million uninsured

Patrick Burke is reporting a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report says that under the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. ObamaCare, 30 million non-elderly Americans will remain without health insurance in 2022.

One of the main arguments the Obama administration made for passing the Affordable Care Act was that it would provide coverage for the uninsured.

Currently, accoriding to CBO, there are 53 million uninsured persons in the United States, including uninsured illegal aliens. The CBO estimates that in 2022 -- 8 years after the Affordable Care Act has been fully implemented -- 30 million people will remain uninsured.

Moreover, under ObamaCare, 8 percent of legal U.S. residents will remain without health insurance in 2022, according to CBO.

The report was done to assess the fiscal impact of the Supreme Court June Obamacare decision.

“CBO and JCT [Joint Committee on Taxation] now estimate that the ACA, in comparison with prior law before the enactment of the ACA, will reduce the number of nonelderly people without health insurance coverage by 14 million in 2014 and by 29 million or 30 million in the latter part of the coming decade, leaving 30 million nonelderly residents uninsured by the end of the period,” the report said.

“Before the Supreme Court’s decision, the latter number had been 27 million,” states the report.

As a result of the Supreme Court decision, states are no longer obligated under ObamaCare to expand eligibility for their Medicaid programs.

“Some states will probably forgo the expansion entirely; some are likely to expand coverage to everyone whose income is below 138 percent of the FPL [federal poverty level]; and if the flexibility is allowed, some states may choose partial expansions. Further, states may be able to make those choices in any year after 2014,” the report said.

“The updated estimates by CBO and JCT represent their assessment of the middle of the distribution of the many possible outcomes arising from the Supreme Court’s decision,” states the CBO report.

On the same day the Supreme Court issued its ruling, President Barack Obama delivered a speech in which he said 30 million Americans presently without health coverage will now have the opportunity to obtain affordable health plans.

“If you’re one of the 30 million Americans who don’t yet have health insurance, starting in 2014, this law will offer you an array of quality, affordable, private health insurance plans to choose from,” said Obama.

However, as the CBO concludes, despite all the new government regulations and bureaucracies, taxes and subsidies created by ObamaCare, there will still be 30 million uninsured people in the United States a decade from now.