Grassroots Way Ahead of Elected Officials
This just in from the Department of Government Redundancy and Time Wasting.
The following press release was published by Thom Tillis and Phil Berger on Monday:
RALEIGH, N.C. –House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) and Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) announced today the formation of a Joint Legislative Study Committee to investigate the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on North Carolina.
The committee is being formed to explore the real-world impacts that the Affordable Care Act is having on North Carolina’s economy and citizens through disruptions in the insurance marketplace, dropped coverage for families and higher premiums without improved access to providers.
“Given the steps we have taken over the last three years to reduce taxes and regulations on working North Carolinians, it’s important to get to the bottom of how Obamacare impacts our state’s economy and citizens on a daily basis. This committee will delve deeply into the problems Obamacare has caused to the health insurance marketplace and to our economy as businesses and individuals absorb the costs,” said Tillis and Berger.
Members serving on the committee as well as the first meeting date will be announced in the coming weeks.
I can safely say to Tillis and Berger that the impact on North Carolina by the ACA is “negative”. Look at me, a committee of one! (Can I get paid for this?)
Hey elected guys, on Saturday in Charlotte, CAUTION is helping promote an event organized by Human Events publisher and entrepreneur Stephen O’Connor and Independent Women’s Voice. A few experts, including one from the John Locke Foundation and one from Mycancellation.com, are going to be filling us in on the impact of the ACA on North Carolina. People in attendance will also be able to share their stories on the matter…to a film crew if they’d like. Here’s your committee. The grassroots and think tanks are WAY ahead of you!
While I appreciate your concern, forming a committee to “study” something as widely known as Obamacare is quite frankly an abdication of duty. Instead of more studies, which have already been done, now is time to start taking action to protect the citizens of North Carolina from the ACA. South Carolina has the right idea.
They might want to check with Darryl Issa, he would probably remind the propaganda ‘studies’ don’t work anymore.
It’s going to be fun to watch Thom Tillis embarras himself pandering to the conservatives by putting all his eggs in the Obamacare basket. He might want to try to improve on his 28% approval among the 54% of voters he’s been alienating since taking over as Speaker, women.
I just love when government observes the obvious, but then wants to spend more money to figure out why their “great idea” failed. In my line of work I can not afford to make mistakes like the ACA. I always tell my customers, if it is worth doing, it is worth doing right, the first time. Sometime a little money spent during the engineering and development phase can save you big time on the back end of the project. On several occasions I have refunded the difference of the estimated project cost and the actual cost, because my team took the time and effort to do it right.
There is nothing right with the ACA, plain and simple. It doesn’t do what the proponents claimed it would do. It was poorly engineered and designed. Simply put, it is a public sham, that the current president used to get elected and the re-elected. It cannot just cannot work. I would never take on a project that is based on assumptions (young people signing up in droves to help keep the cost down for the elderly). I would have to substantiate the assumptions into a plausible fact and then reduce my estimation for participation by 30%, and then begin working the project.
You have a committee of two now.
Rich
Id rather be a 67:65:65:6B than an Id10t….
My company dropped our HMO last year and now we’re stuck with a Government Compliant BCBS HSA plan. My trip to the ER for slicing my finger on a food processor blade cost me a $100 co pay to my HMO in 2010. My daughters trip to the ER for abdominal pain in 2013 cost us $3000 out of pocket. Thanks Barry!
Don’t fool yourself that Obamacare is for the people. It’s for the Big insurance companies (they’ll be bailed out as too big to fail as their compeitition is driven out of the health insurance market) and Big Business (they can drop benefits to the minimum level and blame it on Obama while they try to outsource jobs to places where they won’t need to provide any benefits at all).
Are you sure it was a food processor and not a ninja katana? 🙂
note to self- avoid any food Skyler has made in food processor for the next few weeks
No worries that was a while ago and it eas from accidentally touching the blade in soapy dish water while cleaning up. Have a nice half moon scar on my thumb.
Christian. Why use my katana when I still have Ron Popeil’s ginsu knives from the 1980’s?
Skyler ,
Washing dishes ? Where is your undocumented household help?
I don’t get a big paycheck from Soros to troll like Son does. I’m poor. Being married to an actor persuing their ‘dream’ doesn’t help much either. I bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan, and clean the dishes after.
Like Zon does darn spell check spoiling another sarcastic gem.
The study, going past anecdotal impact, is of obvious importance. Economic impacts are still to come and be measured. What happens when you squeeze citizens for more money out of their normal spending patterns? What happens when you squeeze healthcare providers by lowering reimbursement levels below that of cost? The measurable, and therefore, undeniable impacts are yet to have been felt and will make people very sad when they are.
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