I seem to recall the Obamabots screaming from the rafters that nearly 50 million Americans had no health insurance. Since then however, the facts have classified the difference between those who can’t afford insurance, illegals, and those, who for whatever reason, just don’t want it. Nevertheless, the number has kind of hung around as a rallying cry for the “main stream” press, to plug into every interview with any who oppose the ACA.

To date, the Administration is claiming an enrollment number of about five million, two million shy of the (original) seven million claimed to be the target number necessary to make this nightmare fly by March 31. Moreover, the Obama misrepresentation department refuses to say who these people are, or whether any have actually paid their first premium. Now it’s not a stretch to assume the reasons for this truth black-out are simple. A) The vast majority of enrollees are folks who will be utilizing the system almost immediately. B) The enrollment number includes many of the over six million who lost their insurance back in October. C) Industry folks are estimating close to half haven’t paid dime one for their coverage as yet. And D), they’re running for cover as just about every credible analyst is now predicting, that when all is said and done, thirty million of those who truly needed or desired health insurance won’t have it. Biden was right. “This is a big fxxxxxg deal”…!

I suppose my question for the remaining Obama faithful would be this. Are you finally prepared to call the ACA what it always was, a premeditated pathway to the economically devastating single payer system? I’ve said right along that debate on the issue of healthcare in this country was and is necessary. I’ve also said, that intellectual and ideological honesty would be essential tenets to the formation of any “legitimate” way forward. I think if we look at the ACA thus far, and consider all the Presidents lies and attempts to manipulate the law to protect both his legacy and his base, one could reasonably assume that honesty has never been part of this equation.