{"id":71913,"date":"2017-05-08T08:19:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71913"},"modified":"2017-05-08T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:19:37","slug":"predictable-and-asinine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71913","title":{"rendered":"Predictable. And Asinine."},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember John Gruber? You know, that Harvard-educated \u201cintellectual\u201d who help the previous \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 gang of na\u00efve and foolish children that somehow conned the American voters into letting them run things in DC<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 last Administration draft that abomination called the \u00a0 \u00a0 Patently Pathetic and Awful Collection of Asininity<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (AKA \u201cObamaCare\u201d)?\u00a0 That incredibly bad law that our new adult leadership in DC is trying to change before it bankrupts the nation?<\/p>\n

Sure you remember him. That\u2019s the same elitist jerk who believes – and stated – that American voters have a \u201clack of economic understanding\u201d. He\u2019s also the same tool who was caught on video discussing ObamaCare and saying, \u201cThe stupidity of the American voter . . . was really critical for the thing to pass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, he\u2019s running his yap yet again. Now, he\u2019s saying that ObamaCare price increases (presumably the ones that just occurred) are Trump\u2019s fault<\/a><\/em>. And he\u2019s also claiming those increases were a \u201cone time\u201d event that \u201cfixed\u201d ObamaCare.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d say YGBSM, but we see these kind of \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 bald-faced lies<\/del> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u201ccreative stories\u201d all the time from the political left.<\/p>\n

Um, dipstick . . . the 2017 premium increases were announced about two weeks prior to the 2016 Presidential election<\/em><\/a>. Trump wasn\u2019t POTUS then; the SCoaMF that lent “ObamaCare” it’s nickname was the POTUS when those price increased were determined and announced. And until the early morning of 9 November 2016, few expected Trump to be the next POTUS.<\/p>\n

In short, Trump had nothing to do with this mess.\u00a0 This one’s the SCoaMF’s “baby” – warts and all.<\/p>\n

Further, the 2017 increases announced in late 2016 were hardly a one-time deal. ObamaCare premiums have been rising in most markets for years. And the system is hardly \u201cfixed\u201d now \u2013 it\u2019s so bad off financially that virtually no insurers are making any money from their ObamaCare policies. Instead, they\u2019re losing money in bundles.\u00a0 And they’re still pulling out of state health insurance exchanges.<\/p>\n

You know, for a highly educated \u201celiteist\u201d, the man just doesn\u2019t seem particularly bright. He can\u2019t manage to figure out that the temporal sequence here (price increases announced prior to the election, which Trump was widely expected to lose) kinda rules out Trump having anything whatsoever to do with this year\u2019s ObamaCare price increases. He also can\u2019t seem to grasp that a multi-year pattern of moderate to large annual premium increases virtually nationwide demonstrates rather conclusively that the last such premium increase was hardly a \u201cone time event\u201d. And, finally, he doesn\u2019t seem to realize that insurers opting out of the market in droves because they\u2019re losing money by the ton annually is evidence that the system is broken \u2013 badly.<\/p>\n

In fact, it certainly seems like he\u2019s an \u201celitist\u201d educated at a “highly-prestegious liberal university” with delusions of superiority who in reality appears have significant difficulties with both logic and getting his facts straight, and who also can’t accept the fact that they’re far from infallible.\u00a0 In other words:\u00a0 rather than being “superior”, he doesn\u2019t have much of a clue.\u00a0 But he thinks he does.<\/p>\n

Sounds familiar.\u00a0 All too familiar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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