For the past three days I have seen the headlines on news stories and blog posts that state that Obama lied about Obamacare (According to GOP).
I don’t think that he lied (deliberately telling an untruth) but I do believe he repeatedly stated untruths deriving from the fact that neither Obama, the Dems, the GOP, Boehner, the Dem advisors, the GOP advisors, Sebelius, nor the Tea Party idiots really understood what they were debating on and off Fox News.
The screw up is that THEY RUSHED to pass the bill, to try to stop the law in the courts, to put up an untested web site, and to get in front of the cameras first. Nobody took 23 minutes to realize that the entire program was being set up for failure.
Realistically it should take 5-10 years to implement Obamacare in a way that is responsive to patients and healthcare providers, a responsible use of taxpayer money, responsible to all Americans who would like to have their lives be as free of disease and to live as long as possible.
I doubt that there is any experienced healthcare expert in the US who would have thought that the Congress, the States, and POTUS could spend several years in federal courts fighting, thousands of hours on cable tv news debating, no time thinking before opening their mouths, and then at the end implement a well-thought out, effective, responsible healthcare plan for 350 million people.
So really everybody is lying and nobody is lying because nobody understands the plan and its implementation well enough to be able to intelligently comment on it.
Maybe all parties, even the Tea idiots, should agree to take two weeks off, and then start expending energy on implementing a plan that will best benefit ALL Americans. Is this too much to expect from our employees?
Imagine.
PS. Get rid of Sebelius. As of this minute she still does not know what her department is supposed to do in its role as the administrator-manager of all US federal healthcare programs. There are at least 10,000 healthcare professionals in the US who can do a better job at DHHS than Sebelius has done.
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An addition to the post. I voted for Obama twice. I think he has been a pretty good president, and certainly better than the alternatives. BUT, he, the Congress, and especially their trusted advisors on both sides of the aisle, let politics get ahead of their primary job: being powerful employees of the people who elected them and (per the Constitution) being empowered to make decisions individual citizens may not be informed enough about to make themselves. All elected parts of the federal government blew healthcare reform (as did Hillary Clinton in the mid 1990s) because they rushed (and rushed in front of the tv cameras). Changing the health care system is a huge change for the country as a whole and needs to be implemented slowly so that there is as much buy-in from all stakeholders as possible.