GOP is spreading fear and ignorance about "Obamacare"

Feigned ignorance and illiteracy is the GOP’s case against “Obamacare”.  They love to spread ignorance and then report polls that  claim small business is not spending because they will not hire because of the cost of Obamacare.  Their case is to throw out the health care reform law if the Supreme Court upholds its constitutionality because it just has too many words and is just too complex for the public to understand.  Even one of the Supreme Court  justices made some remark that “do you mean I have to read the whole thing?”

 On the other hand, the Obama administration has made sausage out of sausage, muddling their case and not bothering to counter the ignorance spread by the GOP trying either to scare the wits out of seniors with the bogus claims of death panels and a horrible burden on small business.  The death panel scare tactics have been somewhat diminished, but the ignorance they are spreading about  burden on small business is scaring the pants  off of them. No wonder small business opposes it, but ignorance is no excuse nor is illiteracy and the Obama administration should just not let these kinds of intentional  befuddlement go unchallenged.

Here is why. No matter how the Court rules, Obama loses.  If the court approves his health reform bill in toto, the 2/3 of American people who had hoped it would have been found unconstitutional and oppose the reform, will blame him for the monster bill they neither understand or they fear what they have been told by the GOP campaign of deceit  of the dire provisions that just might gore their oxen.  If it only strikes down the mandate, there will be repercussions which few understand and the GOP will continue to exploit  their ignorance. Romney will continue the debate with his swearing to repeal it in Congress if he is elected.  The war will not be over throughout the campaign..

 If the law is struck down by the Court , there will be egg all over the face of our constitutional law professor  President and frankly he will look incompetent.  He is going to have to sell Obamacare all over again as a good thing and then accuse Romney of wanting to cause our health system to be more expensive and sicker.  He could charge Romney with  wanting to deprive 30 million of the ability to afford health care, running up the cost of health care for those who already have it by having to pay for ER health for the uninsured in higher insurance premiums,  leaving  those laid off and losing employer’s insurance without any coverage after COBRA runs out, and making coverage of pre-existing conditions unaffordable for government or anyone else.

 Romney now  piously proclaims  says he  wants to cover pre-existing conditions.  Where’s the pay-for, Mitt? That is what the mandate is supposed to do…enlarge the pool, require healthy to pay into the system, which makes it economically feasible  for the private insurers  to  cover  the cost of covering pre-existing conditions. Without the mandate, how do you propose to pay for coverage of pre-exisitng conditions? You know  the problem. That is core to the Massachusetts system you set up and the rationale for the mandate.  Shame on promoting such ignorance when you know better..

The first chore for Pres. Obama to talk about the burden of supplying employee insurance now and how the burden will be taken off the shoulders of small business.  Has everyone forgotten that    small businesses are exempted from having to provide insurance for their employees?  That message has gotten lost in the Romney  campaign of fear and deception  and needs to be set  straight  by the Obama supporters ASAP.