The Fox And The Moonbeams

            The Affordable Care Act is not the cause of our country’s economic difficulty.  That’s just a foxy lie--a diversion—even though many believe it to be true.  Most of the negative impact of the ACA so far, is in the imaginations of naysayers, manipulators, and their victims who, like all of us, can be financially hurt by legislators.  So audience-jerking TV producers ply us with imaginative horror stories having no basis in fact.  By the light of the moon, some of this scat looks real.  Apples-to-apples, the only thing caused by the ACA (Obamacare) is thousands more people having health insurance that was previously unaffordable. 

            This doesn’t mean employers and insurers will not try to cheat the employees and clients they already insure, and blame it on Obamacare.  I’ll bet lots of these purveyors are telling horror stories and planning to cut their own costs at others’ expense by altering what they already provide.  Some insurers are baiting people out of the junk insurance they had, into slicker swindles.  Sly. 

            Improvements are surely needed to the ACA, to insure fairness.  For instance, many seem to agree that the tax on medical devices should be eliminated.  On another front, nobody should have their annual premiums go up $5000 and their deductible double.  Perhaps that scenario is imaginary, or perhaps it reflects a threatened withdrawal of employer-paid benefits.  The fox is among us gleaming in the moonbeams, so around here, we believe the old saying should now read:”Don’t trust, but verify!”