PoKitty Care

Hello My Dear Friends. Well, tomorrow is the day when the Affordable Care Act, affectionately known as Obamacare, kicks in! The fact that no one really knows what they're supposed to do or how it is going to affect them is irrelevant. Oh, there is a continuing battle in the fantasyland called Capitol Hill but, in the end, that too is irrelevant. Obamacare is the law of the land and, for the most part, it begins tomorrow. Depending on who you talk to, it's either the greatest thing ever or the end of life as we know it. I fall somewhere in the middle. I, not surprisingly, have questions. First, and I think most importantly, Why, if Obamacare is so great, did the President exempt himself, all of his political appointees and everyone in Congress from it? I've said this before and I'll say it again; Congress should NOT be allowed to pass a law and then exempt THEMSELVES from it. It's ridiculous. If it's good enough for me, it's good enough for you too Mr. President. Second, I'd like to know why, if Obamacare is ready to go, has the government delayed the employer mandate and the insurer reporting requirements until 2015? I'm sure it has nothing to do with the midterm elections. Third, if this whole system is predicated on the need for young, healthy Americans to purchase health insurance, what happens when they don't? If the media wasn't so focused on this fabricated government shut down (which is exactly what the politicians hoped they would do) maybe someone could have asked these questions prior to the implementation of this mammoth program. So my dear friends I will look into my crystal ball and tell you what happens next.
First, the websites that provide what little information that is currently available along with the on-line marketplaces with the insurance exchanges, will crash tomorrow. That will take days or weeks to repair. Once they work that out, mass confusion will reign. People will realize that they've been misled on what will be available to them or how much it will really cost them. Next, in about a year or so down the line, the government will realize that all of these young, healthy Americans who they counted on to fund the system, won't be there. The system will be on the edge of implosion when the government will step in to save it, creating the single payer system (socialized medicine) that they've wanted from the beginning. Don't believe me? That's all right. Time will tell. Let me leave you with one final question. If the Affordable Care Act was created to provide affordable health insurance to "millions of Americans who desperately need it", why then did they need to include a law that requires everyone to buy it? If it is all that they say it is, wouldn't people flock to it on their own? Forcing someone to purchase something is not providing a service or filling a need, is it?
Po