Where Is Obamacare Going? (Must See Video)

Stories don’t stay on the front page for long, especially when it seems like there is a new scandal in Obama’s presidency every week. It makes me wonder at times whether he’s really that incompetent or whether he’s intentionally manufacturing scandal after scandal, just to keep people from being able to pay too much attention to any one thing he is doing.

Regardless of how Obama and the mainstream media are directing our attention at any one moment in time, we need to try and keep an eye on everything that is going on around us. Our failure to do so could result in something major happening, to our detriment, without us having any real warning.

As we slip into the New Year, I can’t help but think of Obamacare. Tax season is right around the corner and this is the first year where those of us who can’t afford buying insurance under Obamacare have to pay a penalty for our inability to pay. This is definitely a Catch-22 situation and I’m afraid it doesn’t look like it’s going to get any better.

Unless Congress is able to pass at least a partial repeal of Obamacare, we’re going to be stuck with it. That means that next year’s taxes are going to carry a heavier penalty for not having insurance and the year after that having even heavier penalties. Even so, the penalties are still cheaper than the insurance.

Ever since the Unaffordable Care Act passed in 2009, there have been many of us hoping and waiting for some sort of repeal. The House of Representatives has tried 54 times to turn the tables on Obama’s healthcare bill, but have been blocked each and every time by the Senate.

However, having a Republican controlled Senate doesn’t look like it’s going to solve that problem. The Republicans still don’t have enough votes to overcome a presidential veto and Obama has promised to veto any attempt to stop his signature legislation. For once, I think we can believe him.

However, even though there’s about zero chance that the Republicans in Congress can get rid of Obamacare, there is a slight chance that they can chip away at it, getting rid of some of the problems that it creates. I don’t know if they’ll succeed in getting rid of the individual mandate, but hopefully they’ll be able to slip a few things through.

Actually, at this point, totally repealing Obamacare is a practical impossibility. Over seven million low-income people have joined Medicaid under the provisions of Obamacare. Most of those probably are amongst the working poor, who can’t afford healthcare insurance on their own and don’t receive it from their employers. It would be unfair to them to kick them out of Medicaid; so something would have to be done for them.

Even so, it’s clear that something has to be done about Obamacare, whether Obama allows Congress to or not. Health insurance rates are rising even more this year, as insurance companies adjust to their new patient demographics. But that’s actually the worst part of Obamacare.

For some reason, everyone focuses on the premiums, and ignores the high deductibles. Those deductibles mean that the average American family has to pay $1,000 per month ($12,000 per year) in medical expenses, before their health insurance does a thing for them. Who can afford that?