Bring it 2014!

             If you think you had a bad 2013, think again.  You’re not the President.  Obama Care so far has been a mess.  Technically, politically, a total mess.  I guess that’s what happens when you embrace a Republican idea (Romneycare), and get 0 Republicans to embrace it.  That’s right, most progressives would like a single payer, Medicare for all plan, but because that won’t happen in America they went with the next best option.  Yes Romneycare in Massachusetts has been mostly successful.  Free market competition among health insurers to keep prices down and more affordable to everyone.  Like putting your car in a ditch, unless you can see the future you don’t know when you’re going to get sick….. or put your car in a ditch.  So to keep costs down, and to keep you from losing your house, you’re required to purchase health insurance, right along with your car insurance.  Also a conservative idea called personal responsibility.  If you don’t think you need health insurance and then you have a heart attack and end up in the hospital for a month, good luck paying that bill.  (We all know hospitals rip us off so I won’t go into that.)  Well I don’t want to pay the bill either.  You would have to file for bankruptcy and end up on Medicaid, where you guessed it; the tax payer picks up the tab.  I know, I know, Medicaid has been expanded, won’t that bankrupt the country?  Only if healthy people who can afford to buy their own opt out.  There’s no turning back now.  If the ACA succeeds, so can the country.  If not the Democrats are in trouble.  If it does end up working-the Republicans biggest fear-consider them done.   So here’s to a better 2014 for the man who received the ‘Pinocchio’ of the year in 2013.  “If you like your insurance you can keep it.”  OUCH!