Thoughts on the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare

Way back before this became law, I told anyone who would listen the impending law would be bad law.  Here is why I thought so then, and still do.

1. The federal government is not efficient when it comes to managing programs.  There are many which are wasteful, fraud filled, and just plain inefficient.  Count the number of presidential candidates who claim they would stop the waste, fraud and abuse in various programs.
2. This law was written by whom?  Do you know?  Much of it was written by lobbyists, and the rest by legislators, political aides, and occasionally and actual elected official.
3. The law was negotiated and tailored by democrats only, in the proverbial smoke-filled room.  Votes were bought using the politically expedient bribery known as the Cornhusker Kickback, and the Louisiana Purchase.
4. No republican official was permitted into that room.  Instead, republicans were discounted as having no good ideas worth considering.  They were excluded completely from the process.
5. A bill containing approximately 2400 written pages was formed in the middle of night, under cloak of darkness, then brought to the floor of the US Senate for a vote without those voting ever having an opportunity to read it first.  It passed along party lines.  Only democrats voting for it, and no republicans voting for it.
6. As this is a tax, so determined by the US Supreme Court, it needed to originate in the House of Representatives, according to the US Constitution, but was not.
7. The democrat majority in the House also passed it along party lines.  Some democrats, facing conservative pressure in their district, we permitted by party leaders to vote against, only because they had the required number of votes already lined up.
8. During the debate on healthcare reform, President Obama gave nearly 50 speeches on the need for this law.  We now know he lied repeatedly about the effects of this law on individual policy holders.
9. This law cannot do what it is claimed will be the beneficial results.  Adding millions of people, increasing minimum coverage, mandating coverage for pre-existing conditions, and lifting lifetime limits all only raise the costs of insurance.  There is no way this can possibly lower costs.

A bad law passed by bad legislative process, while people were being either bought or lied to or both, should never be allowed to happen, and cannot be allowed to stand.