The 2013 Halloween will be a special one for Americans. The US citizens no longer need to look for horror in their movies, nor do they need their imagination to choose their Halloween costumes.
Because the "party" has begun on the first day of October, and the terror will last for a long time from now on. Its name is Obamacare, the loving nickname given to a law passed in 2010.
The Affordable Care Act was supposed to be a huge step forward when it comes to providing Americans with health insurance.
According to the official explanations, the ACA was supposed to regulate the health insurance market and to increase the affordability and quality of private healthcare services. But something was wrong from the very beginning. The draft law, which had over two thousand pages, was not reviewed by the members of Congress prior to the vote.
Nancy Pelosi, an important member of the Democrat Party and president of the House of Representatives at that time, said that "we have to vote the law to find out what it contains".
It is only now that the Americans have begun seeing what is "contains", and desperation is the word that is used the most frequently.
President Obama repeated countless times, that "whoever likes their current insurance plan, because no one can take it away from them". Is that really so? Not even remotely. A piece of news from Associated Press reports that "many policy holders will receive a surprise in the mail: announcements that their insurance policies have been cancelled, because they do not comply with the standards of the new law".
So the leader of the free world has lied? That's no big deal! Us folks in Europe, especially so if we're living in Eastern Europe, we are used to that. But the average or less average Americans aren't, especially those who voted twice for the current president.
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