Obamacare’s killing machine

Posted March, 2018 by Bob Livingston

Obamacare, aka the Affordable Healthcare Act, is neither affordable nor is it about healthcare. It’s a big government boondoggle designed to transfer wealth, further enrich the medical-pharmaceutical-health insurance complex, limit choices and steal away medical freedom.

It’s also a killing machine. While the left – which advocates for the murder of some 1 million of the soon-to-be-born every year – shrieks its concern that some 200 people die each year at the hands of drug-addled psychopaths wielding rifles that look scary, it embraces and even touts the Obamacare deathcare system that has killed some 22,000 or more in eight years.

From the passage of President Barack Obama’s signature legislation and throughout his tenure, Obama and his collectivist comrades claimed – falsely – that more people would have better and more affordable health insurance under Obamacare. He also claimed we could keep our doctors and our old insurance.

All of those claims have turned out to be lies, as I and others warned would happen from the very beginning. Now a report is out from the Foundation for Government Accountability that shows that due to Medicaid expansion provisions under Obamacare, at least 22,000 people have perished while on Medicaid waiting lists even as Medicaid roles expanded by 13 million able-bodied adults who suddenly qualified under the ACA.

And there are still at least 247,000 more people on Medicaid waiting lists. The report describes these as the neediest citizens of all; those with traumatic brain injuries, spinal injuries, severe intellectual abilities and mental illness.

Socialized medicine always results in rationed care. See the Veteran’s Administration (where veterans died by the hundreds of thousands waiting on care) and the Canadian and British healthcare systems for example.

Maryland has the highest number of waiting list deaths since Obamacare began; 8,495. According to Maryland healthcare officials, the average wait time for an individual to be approved for services is seven and half years. But while the waiting list for neediest individuals among us grows, 300,000 able-bodied adults, 103 percent of the more adults than predicted, signed up. This has cost the state $4.7 billion – more than double what was expected.

Trailing Maryland in highest number waiting list deaths were the states of Louisiana, New Mexico, Michigan and West Virginia. You can read the entire report here.

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