Which is better $307 or $513? The ACA options.

The republicans always seem to mount the wrong horse. The ACA program principles are the target, not the messenger cloaked in the website. My friend, who is close to the politics of this situation, told me that the ACA was going to implode. Wrong. No implosion is coming. The democrats are asking the conservatives to help fix it. The republicans should get on that horse and ride it until all the fixes have forever altered the very essence of the ACA. Fix it to death is the only strategy. Carve away at the absurd ACA legislation a bit at a time until a beautiful canyon is created where a mountain of ACA horse manure already was. 

I suggested in an earlier blog that it was a waste of time to criticize the healthcare.gov website. Why? Because money aside, people in the private sector know how to make a website work. And they have. Google, Oracle and others supplied people. Mr. Zients, Sebelius' clean up crew director, supplied direction and the site is now working. The website was and still is the wrong horse to criticize. It is not even a central issue to the ACA. The site is simply a delivery method for a program that is a disaster. 

For example, my wife got her health insurance letter from Humana. She had the following options. Keep her current plan for $307 per month or  select a plan from Obama's "Affordable Care Act" for $523 per month. Duh? Heathcare.gov is working or not working. So what? The website is not the problem. According to what I read, millions of other people received a similar letter from their respective heath insurance companies. There was an additional catch in my wife's letter, probably in the other letters too.

As of December 31, 2014, Humana can not legally offer her current plan and her insurance will automatically increase at that time to, at least, $523. She will be covered for maternity, but after six decades on the earth she does not need it, but Obama's ACA rules that she does. The ACA defies logic, surpasses all common sense, reeks with the arrogance of the administration and frustrates the rational citizen. The administration argues that the ACA was created to prevent citizens from being "ripped off" by the "devilish" insurance companies. I was satisfied with my wife's insurance at $307 per month. ACA  compliance will raise our expense to $523 per month. Ripped off by whom?

I guess I should be happy that when the administration bailed out Chrysler, I was  not compelled to buy a FIAT. 

What is a citizen to do?

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