SHALL WE REASON TOGETHER?

Mr. President, in your eternal wisdom, you created ObamaCare.

Prior to your actions, 85% of Americans had some sort of health insurance, either paid for by themselves or their employers.  That left 15% uninsured but a considerable number of that 15% had free health care under Medicaid.  A very small number of those remaining were caught in the bind of either having too much income to qualify for government coverage or not having the  ability to afford coverage on their own.

Prior to your plan, the 85% of Americans sought out and purchased health care plans that met their individual needs.  EXAMPLES:

• A 60 year old retired couple chose a plan that would cover prescription drugs, office visits, and hospitalization.  
• A 25 year old single man would opt for a simple catastrophic plan that would cover care should he be involved in an accident and require extended hospitalization.  If he needed to visit a doctor one or two times a year, he would pay out of his pocket.  Most times he would have no need for prescription drug coverage.  
• A young family man would choose a policy to cover general care with additional maternity care and pediatric care.  Each paid premiums according to the coverage they chose.

Once more,  Mr. President, in your eternal wisdom, you had the bright idea that it would be better to destroy the entire existing system than to address the individual problems.  But, you made every effort to kept this fact a closely guarded secret. A few radical racists found out about your plans and tried to warn the public but  you took every opportunity to debunk those who only wished to panic the country and assured every American that there was no cause for concern. When these troublemaking liars said Americans were going to lose their existing insurance plans, you made speech after speech declaring, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period" and "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan, period". There are over 40 taped examples of you making these statements.

All the time you were making these speeches and assuring the American public there was no need for concern, you knew these claims were false.  You knew what was coming and you chose to give misinformation to the public.  Early on, before your plan was passed into law, there were detailed discussions within your administration about how much information should be made available to the public.  The political arm of your administration vetoed the wishes of the governing arm to come clean about your plan.  The political arm prevailed because 'there was not one vote to spare' and it was decided 'if certain senators and representatives knew the full depth of your plan, they might bolt', resulting in the failure of the entire effort.

So, Mr. President, you kept your secrets and consistently provided misinformation to the American people.

As the flower called ObamaCare began to unfurl, the reality of your plan became obvious.  Your plan has literally put the health, safety, and welfare of millions of Americans in jeopardy due to the loss of their existing health insurance.  But, that was the plan all along, wasn't it, Mr. President?  Instead of the thousands of individual plans on the market, your new law allowed for only a few that you deemed acceptable and the insurance companies were force by law to comply with your wishes.   According to your logic, that 60 year old retired couple has to be covered for in-vitro fertilization and infant care.  That 25 year old single man has to have pre-natal and pediatric coverage.  That young family man can function very well with a $16,000 deductible.

For your information, Mr. President, since you have so little experience in the area, here's an example of Business 101.  Insurance companies are "for profit" concerns.  The premiums they charge must be commensurate with the coverage provided.  The more areas of coverage provided, the higher the premiums.   Are you getting this?  When your law dictates that insurance companies provide every possible area of coverage, your outraged reaction to higher premiums or the cancellations of policies that do not meet the criteria of your law is more than disingenuous and misleading.

As these realities of your plan become widely known, Americans have begun to react.  The national media, are accurately reporting for the first time on negative individual events brought about as a result of your plan.  The facts surrounding development and execution of your plan are being brought to light.  Your actions and intentions are being brought into question.

So how, pray tell, Mr. President, did you react to these negative reports?  Did you ask for a prime time slot to formally address the nation?  NO.  With the country in utter chaos as a direct result of your actions, you arranged a simple casual interview with a sympathetic reporter.  AND, you had the unadulterated gall to say, "I am sorry if some people 'find themselves' in a bad situation".  Mr. President, these people DID NOT "FIND THEMSELVES" in this situation.  YOU, SIR, PUT THEM INTO THIS SITUATION.

Mr. President, let's look at a simple outline of where we "find ourselves" at this juncture:

1.  The ObamaCare law is making it necessary for insurance companies to raise premiums for adding the new law's compulsory coverage.

2.  The ObamaCare law is forcing insurance companies to cancel policies that do not meet the criteria of the new law.

3.  People who are losing coverage because they can't afford the new policies initially provided by the insurance companies are being forced into the ObamaCare network.

4.  Most of these people can't even investigate alternatives to their old policies which expire in January 2014 because the ObamaCare website is a dysfunctional disaster.

5.  In addition to being put in the dangerous position of having their families uninsured in January, these same people are facing fines for not having coverage if they don't choose a plan from the ObamaCare network.

6.  Many who successfully access the website are finding they can't afford the policies offered there either.

Let's see if we have this correct, Mr. President.  Because of your law, people are having vital services they want taken away from them and replaced with services they don't want, don't need, and can't afford to pay for.  Insurance companies are being forced by law to take away what customers want; replacing these desired vital services with those people don't want, don't need and can't afford to pay for.  If Americans aren't happy with taking this tack, they can try to obtain these vital services by accessing a website that doesn't work or, if it does, has no hope of security for sensitive information provided.  These new service networks provided under your law might or might not give them access to their preferred doctor or hospital. And to top it all off, if they don't accept what they don't want, don't need, and can't afford to pay for, they will be subjected to a fine for noncompliance, imposed by your law. Do we have it right so far?

Also, Mr. President, I would like to touch on one other small issue.  In every one of your recent speeches, you have touted ObamaCare as the greatest thing to visit the universe in recorded history. You have assured every audience that every American is straining at the bit to get their ObamaCare coverage because they know how wonderful it is.  According to you, ObamaCare will solve the nation's problems and create an absolute utopia for the people.  You assure all Americans that ObamaCare has only an up side and no down side; all positives and no negatives.  In other words, ObamaCare is almost as perfect as you.  

Well, Mr. President, if ObamaCare is all that, why did you decide that you and your family would not participate in the program?  Why did you agree to exclude the entire Executive Branch of government?  Why did you agree to exclude the Legislative and Judicial Branches of government?  For that matter, why did you offer weavers from ObamaCare to over 117 groups of your friends, donors, and supporters?  It would stand to reason that the folks who brought America this wonderful gift would be the first in line to sign up.  And please don't waste your time explaining that you have employer provided insurance so you're not required to participate.  Next July, just a few short months before the 2014 elections,  that shoe has yet to drop.


UPDATE:

Mr. President, thank goodness you are listening to the complaints of the American taxpayers and are making an effort to provide some resolutions to the problems your ObamaCare plan has created.  I especially like this trial balloon:

Since everyone now knows the success of your plan to provide health care to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay, depends on young healthy people buying the more expensive policies offered by your exchanges.  Unfortunately, the sticker shock of these policies to the healthy people is preventing them from signing up.  Now, you have suggested subsidizing, with government money, the cost of these plans that cost more because they contain coverage young healthy people do not need.

I think we understand.  Your plan to pay for health care for people who don't have any money is to take money from people who can't afford the expensive policies. When these people refuse to spend money they don't have to buy these policies they don't need, you want to subsidize their premiums with these same taxpayers' contribution to government. Being as we are running a deficit, there is no taxpayer money there to take, so we will have to borrow these funds from China.

Makes sense to us.