MEDICARE: When it first Started and the crazy claims: Just like now with ACA claims. (The Sky is Falling)

Hysteria and HorseShit is really nothing new.  The noise we see daily with Obamacare was the same type of hysteria which happened with MEDICARE when it was first brought to life.  Now, TeaBaggers are telling Government to stay away from their Medicare. (A government program)


The ACA start-up costs may well be expensive to the point of mind-boggle, but, just as with Medicare, it’s a plan that is essential and long overdue.  It’ll be full of jitters and glitches and adjustments, just as Medicare was. The full effect will be maddeningly slow, there will be a multitude of reasons to doubt it,  and the opponents–those same opponents who have spent years trying to kill Social Security and Medicare–will never give up. (Forbes is claiming the ACA website is crashing on purpose because “they” don’t want us to know how costly the plans really are. It’s also claiming a rise in insurance premiums by 99% for men and 62% for women–a claim already disputed and put to rest.)
But here’s the thing about the opposition:  When they showed their willingness to spend $24 billion on a Tea-Party-sanctioned hissy-fit that went nowhere and benefited no one, they lost any chance to have a voice in the discussion about essential, low-cost Government-sponsored health care.
It will happen, with or without them.  And years from now their cheering audiences will be shouting, “Hands off my Obamacare!”


http://www.alan.com/2013/10/22/medicare-and-obamacare-same-old-story/