Weekend Economists Host a Lion July 5-7, 2013

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18. And how we were villified.

We who dared to state that this . . . this thing was not going to be what we were told it would be.

Not long after "it passed," an acquaintance of mine who has excellent health insurance through her husband's corporate retirement package plus Medicare congratulated me on my finally obtaining affordable health insurance through Obamacare. She is a good Democrat, and so I knew she was not being sarcastic. When I told her that, hello, excuse me, none of it goes into effect for years and years and years, she just looked at me, totally surprised. She had no clue. When I pointed out that none of Obamacare really gave too many people very much in the way of actual access to affordable health care, but was really a massive gift to the insurance companies that would still set the parameters, she really didn't believe me.

So the teabaggers hate Obamacare for the wrong reasons and (some) Dems love it for the wrong reasons, and of course the insurance companies love it because it is a huge ribbon-wrapped gift to them.

I tried to explain it to her, but she really didn't want to hear it. She's old enough to have good coverage, and so she just shut out other people's reality.

Obamacare may have made health care a little more affordable, a little more accessible for a few people, but for the majority of the people who didn't have health insurance before Obamacare, not a whole lot has really changed, at least not for the better, nor will it change very much for the better.

As usual, we was had. Big time.