The health law is a fiasco

If the Obamacare program is as successful as the administration tries to portray, is it not valid to ask why such secrecy over the sign-up numbers?

The administration -- even before a congressional committee last week -- refused to acknowledge how many people had actually paid their insurance premiums and just how many young adults had joined the federal program.

Hiding behind the blanket of the insurance industry, the administration mouthpiece declined to give any relevant statistics on the program other than the highly touted millions who had "joined" the program.

Putting a positive spin on a faltering program is an understandable, though sad, part of the partisan political process.

Deliberately withholding information that is surely available is another matter.

Despite countless diversions, the Democrats know that running for re-election on the success of Obamacare is a formula for failure.

But if you can hide the low enrollment numbers and muddy the landscape on just who has joined the program, their hope is to ride to November with as much confusion and misinformation as possible.

It may be a strategy that saves Senate and House seats but it's a frightening part of the new normal for this administration.

The President is fooling no one when he delays enactment of the painful aspects of this massive and flawed health care law.

Other than those mindless sheep who follow in lockstep, most Americans know a political move when they see one.

The obvious problem with these endless changes made by executive order, is that someday down that proverbial road there will be a price to pay.

And by design, this administration is betting that when that day arrives, the infrastructure of the private insurance industry will be virtually gone.

When that magical day arrives, the architects will be safely retired and the American public will have little options other than to turn to a government-run system that assures universal health care at an unaffordable cost, paid for by the producers to cover the nonproducers.

When the president turns to silly and insulting comedy programs and the NCAA basketball tournament to promote a failed program, you can't help but get the sense that the numbers are not near what is required to make the program viable.

And we all should be concerned when at long last the president finally admits that you may indeed lose your doctor as a result of his flawed vision on health care, yet where is the national media to call his hand on this issue?

This president and this administration are clearly in water far too deep and far too swift for their limited experience.

And yet the lemmings approach the cliff.

Michael Jensen is the publisher of the Sikeston Standard Democrat.