In an alarming comment prior to congressional Democrats’ vote last year to approve ObamaCare, then-Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., declared, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it away from the fog of the controversy.”
Well, we are painfully finding out, bit by bit, “what is in it” – things such as costly government mandates on health insurance plans offered by private companies. Those mandates have forced hundreds of companies and labor unions to seek waivers from ObamaCare, which was supposed to promote more affordable care.
And another little “surprise” popped up recently. ObamaCare was supposed to be geared toward providing coverage to tens of millions of poor Americans who cannot now afford it.
But in the words of The Associated Press, the law “would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.”
Yes, you read that correctly: ObamaCare is so complicated that its backers failed to realize that it would pull millions of middle-class Americans into government care, too – and that they would have to pay almost nothing for that care.