Sometimes You Can Speculate
Yesterday, the White House issued a statement under the President’s name, indicating that a record number of folks enrolled under the Affordable Care Act during the last open enrollment period. They touted this as a very good thing, right down to offering us an interview with a White House official on the topic.
After she told me how wonderful it was that so many people had signed up for government-subsidized insurance, I had to suggest that perhaps it was the opposite…that it actually meant too many people no longer had employer-sponsored health insurance because employers couldn’t afford plans like they used to, so having more people buying insurance through the “exchange” was actually a sign of a poor economy, not something to celebrate.
To her credit, she stuck to the script and said she was not in a position to make conclusions or speculate about why the numbers were as they were. But if it was good news, it was solely because of Biden policies…including the number of jobs she said he himself added since becoming president; obviously those are private sector jobs and probably not good for any president to claim credit for them unless that president also gets blame when the jobless rate goes up.
Realistically, though, more people going to the exchange is not a good thing for a healthy economy. But it is a good thing if you are trying to create a dependent class, one that takes jobless payments from government as opposed to getting a job that—wait for it—might provide health insurance.
So in short, no wonder why they’re celebrating…the more people they get to rely on government for their every basic need, the better it is for their plan to consolidate even more power and dictate how everyone lives. That’s not the American Way. But it is their way. And the spin and reaction to a record number of enrollees under the so-called Affordable Care Act is another example of it.
