Obama's Health Care Reform: One Year Later & Still Failing...Why?

It has been a year ago this week that President Barack Hussein Obama and his administration pushed the Health Care bill into law against the wishes of a great majority of Americans. The Affordable Care Act was met by a great deal of controversy at the time, but health policy experts were certain that it would “catch on” and that the public would soon embrace the idea.

These experts used Medicare as an example and reminded Americans that the Medicare program was very controversial in it's day, back in the 60's, but that it soon became quite popular, and good for many citizens. They also insisted that Medicare Part D was much the same way when President George W Bush extended it to cover medicines. Yet neither of these programs forced Americans to purchase health care like the Affordable Care Act does.

However, despite the optimism of the health care advocates, one year later and the law is even less popular than it was. As a matter of fact, support for the health care reform has now hit an all time low. Why is this?

It is not just a matter of the huge amounts of money that this bill will cost the government when our deficit is already in the critical stage. It is also not simply because it is over two thousand pages of very complicated wording which most of those who signed it into law did not even understand. It is not even the fact that this bill forces American citizens to purchase health care which they may not choose, or need, or be able to afford. Those are the reasons that the original protestors of the bill were giving a full year ago. So why have the new ObamaCare protestors joined in the fight?

It is because they were convinced, or tricked into believing that this law was not only inevitable, but necessary. Those who were not one hundred percent in favor of the bill were pushed into “accepting fate” so to speak, because they were made to believe that this new health care reform was necessary in order for the country to survive.

Now, a year later, judges have denounced the bill, and over half of the country has filed a lawsuit against it's own government in an effort to reverse the law. Many of those states are creating their own laws which would make it illegal to prosecute their citizens for not adhering to the Health Care Law.

The country has not only survived without the bill, but the bill has actually turned the country against itself, and many are beginning to notice that this law, which was so important to the survival of our nation, has instead torn the nation apart. Some are even beginning to wonder if that was part of the plan all along. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” (Abraham Lincoln, quoted in Springfield, Illinois on June 16, 1858 from Matthew 12:25.)