ObamaCare a Planned Disaster for Political Reasons

From Karen McQuillan at the America Thinker Blog:

Political consideration number one was the 2012 presidential election. The Democrats did not want voters to know there would be a huge jump in the price of insurance for most people not being subsidized. They didn't want us to know about the four- and eight-thousand dollar deductibles, and the limits on what hospitals you would have access to and what doctors you could see. They knew voters would flock to the Republican ticket to stop it.

In order to hide ObamaCare from voters, the administration didn't reveal the details of the law to the companies building the exchanges either, until safely after the election. As a result, the exchange designers weren't able to begin writing software until the spring. Less than six months to create a system this complex made failure inevitable. Obama would not have been re-elected otherwise, so the choice was easy.

Political consideration #2: It is not good politically when your opponents are right.

Political consideration #3: Voters would freak out when they logged on and discovered that being affordable was not a real goal of ObamaCare. Instead, voters would discover that the Democrats had devised a system of redistributing bad luck, and in this case, the bad luck was going to fall on the young, people on Medicare Advantage, people working in small business, union workers, and the middle class.

Political consideration #4: We've seen how Democrats kept secret what ObamaCare included or cost until after the election, when people would be forced to sign up by law or pay higher taxes. They figured they could run with a broken, costly system all the way, by clamoring for more money and more power to fix it, until our private medical system is totally broken. In the world of political logic, this makes perfect sense.

Yep, it was all about the 2012 reelection campaign.