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Letter: Doomed to fail with added oversight

The Columbian
Published: January 15, 2014, 4:00pm

How can any American who sees, hears, reads, and supposedly thinks, be surprised Obamacare is simply a grandiose deception? Since when can the U.S. government provide anything cheaper, let alone more efficiently?Insurance companies are not staffed by doctors, nurses or pharmacists. They are big business out to acquire dollars, your dollars, at your expense. The only “service” an insurer provides is placing themselves between the recipient and the actual medical provider for a fee.Obamacare proposes those who never had health care can add yet another layer of oversight (the government), miraculously achieving savings. Hidden from all was that Obamacare is the sinister scheme concocted by Democrats and insurance companies to usurp your health care.

President Obama allocated taxpayers’ dollars to compensate the insurers who fully understood the inevitable consequential losses to themselves, during the first years of Obamacare. This guarantee offsets insurers’ losses until such time Obamacare has a metamorphosis into the intended, full-fledged takeover of America’s health care. Once that occurs, insurers will charge whatever they choose just like our “mandated” auto insurance. Both sounded so good — so good they could never be true. These laws require Americans to pay whatever insurers demand, receiving only that which insurers choose to provide.

The American people unwittingly and carelessly elected a cunning, deceitfully charismatic man as president, whose agenda opposes our very Constitution. All America is now paying dearly in health, life, and liberty itself.

Jim Williamson

Vancouver

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