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Dave Sussman Blog, September 5, 2016

Amid the daily reflux of corruption that overflows the walls at House of Hillary, one of the greatest financial threats to the country and our families may be what’s grievously unreported: The dishonesty that is America’s double-dealing healthcare system that has failed to fulfill the covenant of its architects. Yet curiously there’s little if no election messaging from the Right.

Last month Donald Trump had the families of victims who were murdered by illegal immigrants share their heartbreaking stories of loss. For those who saw, it hit a raw nerve. Now it’s time for a baker’s dozen Mothers to represent and speak for the millions of families who’ve been gobsmacked by increased premiums, deductibles and loss of trusted doctors due to the prevarication that is the Affordable Care Act. For without change this November, it’s only time before we hear of ObamaCare rations. Hyperbole, you say? That would never happen, you say? We have seen the future of ObamaCare and its England’s National Healthcare Service.

"Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery in ‘most severe ever’ rationing in the NHS"

The Telegraph reports:
Obese people – as well as smokers – will be routinely refused operations across the NHS, health service bosses have warned, after one authority said it would limit procedures on an unprecedented scale. Reports of rationing have emerged after NHS England admitted in May that its provider sector overspent by £2.45 billion in 2015-16, more than a threefold increase on the previous year. The figure, which was described as conservative by think-tanks, prompted some hospital chief executives to question the future viability of free universal healthcare.

“At this rate we may see brutal service reductions becoming the norm, rather than just being exceptions.”

In 1977, my late Father sold his business, moved my Mom, me and my 3 younger siblings from London to America with no job prospects and only 2 or 3 acquaintances. Why would someone with so much to lose take such a risk? Two reasons besides the lousy weather; the unions weekly strikes made the business climate almost impossible to navigate and each day National Healthcare steadily got worse. This was 39 years ago, before the Iron Lady temporarily righted the ship. Now the beleaguered NHS program, which has been duct taped and sewn together with Labour’s taxpayer financed largesse, is the equivalent of vulnerable Steelers Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger; one more big hit and he’s forever done.

England’s Left now begins the blame game. Labour is already pinning the NHS failure on freshly elected Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May (whose new car smell has barely faded).

On this side of the pond, ObamaCare is also failing as predicted. The architects of the ACA (who believe ObamaCare’s supporters are “stupid”) manipulated the taxing of insurance companies allowing them to pass costs onto the insured while taking a partial page from the universal healthcare designs of England and Canada. (Canada’s healthcare system eats up an unsustainable 40% of all government spending.)

Expect Democrats to follow Labour’s lead and blame the ObamaCare collapse on Republicans. Maybe only then will the mainstream media no longer ignore its failure (and ignore it they have).

"The broadcast networks have refused to cover the repeated failures of ObamaCare in 2016. During the entire year, ABC World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News have yet to give the floundering program any coverage at all, while CBS Evening News only found time to cover two of the ObamaCare updates – and that only added up to 2 minutes and 18 seconds of coverage for the entire year." (Bolded by author)

"To put that in perspective, these same three evening news shows managed to find 46 minutes and 49 seconds dedicated to Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte running afoul of Brazilian police."

As we head into the final stretch of the exploding commode that is campaign 2016, now’s the time for Republicans to make ObamaCare a central issue by repeatedly educating already dubious voters of the Democrats incestual insurance lobby venality and the resulting centralized government graft of its own citizens.

Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel suggests to Republicans “Make Democrats own Obamacare” because “in the states that will determine control of the Senate, the health law is falling apart.”

"ObamaCare is roaring back as a political liability to Democrats in a way not seen since that 2010 wave election. Right in time for this fall’s presidential contest, insurers are bailing out of the government system, leaving millions of voters with dwindling options and skyrocketing premiums. ObamaCare was always destined to crack up, but there is something notable that it comes precisely as so much control of Washington is up for grabs."

Note to the highly competent Kellyanne Conway: The current voter gender gap may be the difference this November. Statistics show it’s mothers, wives & girlfriends who control the family’s pocketbook, and they see firsthand the alarming cost increases. It causes debate between spouses of what can and cannot be afforded, impacting relationships, their families and future.

The choice this election is simple: Will voters rely on the perpetrators of the current doomed system who have only doubled down on their deceit by embracing their multitudinous array of proven lies? Or will voters choose the party who pledges to correct the failures of the current administration by creating an environment which can allow more competition, thereby lowering costs?

This is the real ‘women’s issue': Who do you trust to rectify the greatest fraud of our time?

Let Mothers control family health care decisions, not corrupt politicians.

To Kellyanne Conway: ​The Woman’s Issue is ObamaCare

To Kellyanne Conway:
The Woman’s Issue is ObamaCare