The Obamacare ‘Sting’

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The Obamacare ‘Sting’

 

Frank Salvato

March 20, 2013

 

In the Academy Award winning movie “The Sting,” the characters played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford set-up a fake betting parlor and racetrack broadcast to “reel in the whale.” The “sting,” or the con game, was set-up from the very start to play out exactly as planned; the winner was predetermined: the con men. Obamacare – or the Affordable Care Act, laughable as that law’s title may be – is not unlike “The Sting,” in that the outcome emanating from the passage of this law was predetermined, but it may not be what you think.

 

Most people who understand Obamacare to be an affront to the Constitution (this, of course, would not include US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts) and a gear stopper, economically, hold the position that the real catalyst behind this horrible piece of legislation was the creation of a single-payer healthcare system. To avoid this the popular hypothesis held that those opposed to the outrageous provisions set forth in the Affordable Care Act would either: a) win the General Election in a landslide and repeal the whole of the law or, in the aftermath of a lame electoral attempt, dismantle the law piece-by-piece in an effort to defund and render impotent the law piecemeal. As it stands, courtesy of the establishment Republican Party, we have opted for “B.”

 

To that end, CNS News reports:

 

“When the young people in this country find out that

In Obamacare, Mr. Obama has a vehicle that can do both, especially if the Republicans and Libertarians continue to fail in mastering the art of political messaging (and believe me, Mr. Priebus’ GOP reform manifesto is not the blueprint to success unless the messaging issue is resolved first).