WARNING! Don't eat before you read this!

I generally read the newspaper while I’m eating my breakfast. I may have to stop doing that, because sometimes, I just about lose my Post Toasties. November 18 was such a day. I turned the page and there on page 9A was this full page ad:

Thank You!

Mr. President

For the Affordable Care Act –

“Affectionately known to me as Obamacare.”

Given the abysmal website, the millions of people who have lost their insurance, and the millions who are having to pay steeply increased premiums because of Obamacare, I’d like to know just what idiot views this travesty with affection to the point of paying for a full page ad in The Dallas Morning News. And if this idiot can afford a full page newspaper ad, does he really need Obamacare? Why would he view it so “affectionately”? Whoever he is, he wasn’t willing to put his name to it, signing it only  – “Fellow U.S. Citizen.” But before he signed it, he said to Obama, “For the effort you put forth each day to make the nation a better place – Thank You!”

In this political ad love-fest, Mr. Fellow U.S. Citizen bullet points how great Obamacare is:

·  Pre-existing conditions (Gone!) – [Not really, Mr. Citizen. It’s just that now, someone else is being forced to pay for your pre-existing condition. Try that one with your homeowner policy or your auto policy.]

·  Medicaid expanded – [Yes, Medicaid has so far signed up at least 450,000 extra people for us to pay for. The only problem is that the paying folks aren’t keeping pace with the non-paying folks.]

·  Students on parents plan to 26 years old – [Most states already had provisions for that].

·  Families secure without fear of medical bankruptcy – [I don’t know what he bases that on, because it’s just simply not true].

·   Help for small business to expand coverage to employees – [I don’t know what help he’s talking about here. All I’ve heard so far is that many small businesses are being forced to do away with insurance altogether, because it will be cheaper for them to pay the fines than to pay the horrendously high premiums they’ll be hit with.]

·  No lifetime caps on life saving treatment – [But there will be rationing as more and more doctors opt out of a system that doesn’t allow them to even recoup expenses. And when there’s rationing, some people aren't going to get life-saving treatment if they are deemed too old or their quality of life won't be up to Obamacare standards.]

·  Freedom to pursue dreams without fear of unaffordable medical coverage – [LOL!]

·  Insurance exchanges to give top rated insurance at a low cost to everyone – [First of all, they don’t give away insurance. Second, if the premium is low, that means you’ll probably be out of pocket a whole beaucoup of money in deductibles and co-pays].

·  And that is just a teaser of all the enhancements made to our health marketplace – [I suppose along the same lines of these teasers:  “If you like your insurance plan, you can keep your insurance plan. Period. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period.” “Signing up will be as easy as shopping on Amazon or Kayak.” It's a tease, all right!]

Now, back to the identity of Fellow U.S. Citizen. I’ve been calling him “he” but I strongly suspect it’s actually a she. And I further suspect her initials are “M.O." She's got to get this thing on track, because she expects to see her name on the Democratic primary ballots in 2016.