Did Congress Have an Ulterior Motive?

Recently, I speculated in a post that Congressional Republicans didn't really want to de-fund Obamacare.  I received a letter from my Senator on Friday, and it further confirmed my belief that this is true.  The establishment Republicans would prefer that we have Obamacare with all of its problems.  They don't want the website to be fixed, and I doubt that they have to worry about it working well for a long time.  They want a lot of folks to lose their insurance policies.  They want you to lose access to your favorite doctor.  They want everyone to be required to beg a bureaucrat for access to health care.  If you don't lose your policy, they want the price to rise dramatically.  If you do lose your policy, they want the replacement to be very expensive or to come from a terribly flawed website or both.

Why do they want the middle class folks to suffer this way?  They want it because the Obamacare MessAPolitico was brought to you 100% by the Democrats.  Everyone knows the promises Barack Obama made about your health care under the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act.  We are now learning that almost all of those promises were wrong.  There is also evidence that the Democratic leadership held meetings discussing whether they should lie about the effects of the PPACA on your health care and mine.  Ultimately, they decided to use those lies to get Barack Obama re-elected in 2012 and to retain control of the Senate.

Now the Republicans have helped pass a continuing resolution to fund the government, including Obamacare, through January 15th.  They wanted us all to get a big old dose of unadulterated PPACA for several months.  If they hadn't done it, the Democrats and the media would have said that everything that has happened was the fault of the Republicans.  After all, these obstructionist Republicans have denied everyone the benefits of the PPACA.  The PPACA would have reduced the cost of health care, but they stopped it.  The PPACA would have prevented your insurance company from denying you coverage based on pre-existing conditions, but those Republicans took it away.  Now, the Republicans have allowed the results of the PPACA to turn the public against the Democrats in huge numbers.

This is certainly good for their re-election and election possibilities in Congress in November 2014.  It's not so good for all of the regular, middle-class Americans out there trying to live.  It's not good for all of us that want to be employed in a good job.  They may win their election in 2014 and maybe even in 2016 for the presidency.  The problem with our health care system remains though.  Unless they can win a large enough majority to over-ride a presidential veto, they won't be able to repeal Obamacare until 2016.  Can we afford the cost of health insurance until 2016?  Can our economy survive the worst effects of Obamacare on employment and GDP growth until 2016?  Will there be any doctors left in 2016?  Will the health insurance companies still be in business then, or will we have a one-payer, government insurance system?

Can America survive the ongoing MessAPolitico?  Will the American people wise up and end the MessAPolitico?  These are some great questions, but I don't like the answers I'm coming up with.