That seems to be the clearest assessment after the Obama Administration has flubbed two deadlines to get the Obamacare website working.
The disaster has spawned countless news stories and updates about the website’s progress. But here’s the most important story: HealthCare.gov can’t fix anything that’s wrong with Obamacare.
Even if it worked perfectly from Day 1, that would do Americans little good. A slick, smoothly functioning website couldn’t undo all the damage Obamacare has done and is doing.
Here are just six of the things HealthCare.gov couldn’t begin to fix.
1. All of Obama’s broken
promises. “You can keep your plan.” “You can keep your doctor.” “Premiums
will go down by $2,500 per family.” All of these ring
hollow for so many Americans now.
2. The lack of options for
insurers on the Obamacare exchanges. Obamacare has reduced competition and
choice nationally. Just check
out this map to see its effects.
3. Dumping millions of
Americans onto an already broken Medicaid program. Access to care and health
outcomes are both worse under Medicaid than private insurance. Expanding the
program to “cover” more people isn’t
giving them quality coverage.
4. Penalties for getting
married—and success at work. Obamacare’s financial incentives
discourage marriage and for some workers, they will even discourage working
harder and getting
a raise. Why should a health care law be punishing these positive
behaviors?
5. Obamacare’s trampling on
religious liberty. Because of its coercive mandates, Obamacare forces many
employers to purchase government-approved health insurance that covers
abortion-inducing drugs—and that runs counter to a lot of Americans’ beliefs.
Religious beliefs and the freedom to operate a private business based on those
beliefs are in
danger.
6. The jobs Obamacare has
killed. Even though the Administration delayed the employer mandate, that
hasn’t stopped jobs
from being cut, workers’
hours from being cut, and employers struggling
with the law’s new costs.
Fixing the problems facing the
U.S. health care system requires an alternative to Obamacare. Learn more about
our ideas to take health care out of the government’s hands and put
it back in yours.
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