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Happy One-Year Anniversary, Obamacare!

Obamacare WebsiteHoly cow, has it been a year already?!

On October 1st, 2013, the disastrophe that is the Affordable Care Act was born into this world and was officially thrust onto the American people.

On this day, the fabled Obamacare insurance exchanges went live, the glorious government website Healthcare.gov was launched, and, to paraphrase Nancy Pelosi, America finally got to see what was in the bill.

So what did we find when we opened up Pandora’s Box? Did every family get to save $2,500 per year on their health insurance premiums? Did Obamacare end up being deficit-neutral like they said it would be? Did we all get to keep our doctors and our plans?

Now that the dust has settled on the Obamacare rollout, let’s examine where we are one year into the program and determine whether or not President Obama’s landmark health care overhaul delivered the goods as promised.

Obamacare: One Year Later

Promise
Reality

1. Health care premiums will fall by $2,500 for the average family.
Americans face $18,610 in higher health care costs per family, and $6,388 per individual.

2. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
President Obama admitted that Americans “might end up having to switch doctors.”

3. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.
5 million people have seen their plans canceled.

4. Obamacare won’t add one dime to our deficits.
Obamacare will add $6.2 trillion to the deficit.

5. The ACA will cost around $900 billion over 10 years.
The real price tag for Obamacare is approximately $1.8 trillion over 10 years, double the estimate.

6. Obamacare will stimulate the economy and will spur job growth.
Obamacare will prompt over 2 million to either quit their jobs or cut their hours.

7. Healthcare.gov will be a simple, user-friendly website.
The launch of Healthcare.gov was fraught with crippling downtime, dropped applications, inaccurate or missing data, and security breaches.

8. Healthcare.gov will cost approximately $93.7 million to build and maintain.
The Obamacare website has cost about $2.1 billion to deploy so far.

9. The law will not fund abortion coverage, and insurance plans will be transparent in their coverage of it.
Taxpayer subsidies are paying for plans that cover abortion, and plans are not required to comply with separate surcharges for abortion coverage.

10. Obamacare will not provide coverage for illegal immigrants.
Thousands of illegal immigrants have been allowed to illicitly enroll in and receive taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits from Obamacare.

That’s 10 major Obamacare promises made, and 10 major Obamacare promises broken.

Let’s see, doing the math, that’s a score of exactly 0 out of 10, which is only slightly worse than Obama’s performance on the basketball court.

In summary, we are one year into Obamacare and health care costs are skyrocketing, health care plans are worsening, and the overall economy is suffering. It doesn’t take an out-of-network brain surgeon to know that Obamacare has been an absolute traveshamockery in its first year.

The worst part of all is that President Obama didn’t keep any of the promises above to the American people. To quote Rep. Joe Wilson, Mr. President:

You lie.”

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