More people will be dropped from their policies as they come up for renewal in 2014. The next to lose their health care will be those who get their health care through their employers. Corporations will looks at the numbers and realize it is more affordable to offer their employees raises and let them arrange for health insurance coverage plans independently from their work. The regulations, bureaucracy, recordkeeping, and reporting the ACA will demand will be far to extensive, intrusive, and expensive to maintain. We will see single payer health care within a couple of years while the health care industry crumbles under the weight of what unfolds under this law. More doctors will leave the profession creating a shortage of professionals able to even see patients. There will be more wait time to see a doctor, many will only see physicians assistants or nurses. People will realize the IPAB bureaucrats are the death panels we were trying to warn people about.
There appears to be no true attempt to repeal Obamacare. There will be no way to put the genie back in the bottle. The damage has already been done, we just have not seen or experienced it yet.
Republicans in 2014 better speak out and let Americans know that this law was passed without any Republican support. It was pushed through with political maneuvering and deal making by the Democrats, and they should all be voted out. If Republicans cannot make a good case for Americans to embrace a platform to shrink the size and power of the federal government, then we will be in serious trouble both domestically and internationally.
Expect to see more regulations coming out of the EPA which will further cripple our economy and our ability to afford our gas and electricity bills. All of these are being done with the intent to redistribute wealth. It will be all about social, environmental, and economic justice in the final years of the Obama presidency.
Perhaps the better question would be “What aren’t the Democrats lying about?”