Thursday, January 19, 2012

Disney World? Meet “Obamacare World…”

The President’s visit to Walt Disney World today comes weeks after a liberal group attempted to make Obamacare more popular by releasing “The Game of Obamacare.”  In a similar vein, and playing off today’s presidential visit, below are some “attractions” that individuals may soon find in “Obamacare World:”

Mr. Obama’s Wild Ride:  Takes riders through the twists and turns created by Obamacare’s 159 new boards, commissions, and programs, as well as the more than 10,000 pages of new federal regulations and notices related to Obamacare.

Obamacare People Mover:  Uses Obamacare’s perverse incentives to “move” people from their existing coverage by encouraging employers to dump their workers’ existing plans.  Costs $1.4 trillion to ride.  (This attraction was nearly called “Great Moments with Mr. Obama,” given the President’s role as the great “emancipator” of individuals from their health coverage.)

Fantasyland:  The enchanted land where spending $2.6 trillion on a new entitlement magically reduces the deficit.  Until it doesn’t.

It’s a Small, Small Wallet:  Boat ride illustrating the effects of Obamacare’s $800 billion in new taxestwelve of which affect families with incomes under $250,000 – on the middle class.  The ride also includes a catchy yet annoying song.

Carousel of (Jobs) Decline:  Revolving attraction tracking how the “4 million jobs – 400,000 jobs almost immediately” promised by Speaker Pelosi failed to materialize.  The final scene demonstrates how Obamacare actually discourages work, and will reduce the labor supply by 800,000.

Haunted Mansion:  Rather than 999 grim, grinning ghosts, this mansion is instead haunted by 15 IPAB bureaucrats – officials who will make binding rulings to reduce Medicare spending.  What’s worse, not even the undead will be able to challenge their rulings.

Country Human Jamboree:  Theater program created by a group of individuals who took Speaker Pelosi’s advice to ‘leave your work’ and ‘be creative and be a musician or whatever,’ knowing they would have taxpayer-subsidized insurance thanks to Obamacare. 

Unfortunately, however, Obamacare is NOT the “Happiest Place on Earth” – far from it, in fact.  For the many families and businesses harmed by the law’s many tax increases, mandates, and regulations, the law is already proving all too real.  And claiming that the law’s $800 billion in tax increases, massive bureaucracies, and incentives for employers to drop coverage will actually help middle class families is just, well, goofy.